Roland SC-88 Pro ■Connections with your computer, ●Connections with computer connector

■Connections with your computer

This unit can be controlled by music software running on a personal computer. This will allow you to create your own songs, and also to select sounds or edit sounds from the computer display. This type of system is known as a Desk Top Music System (DTMS). The functions provided by a DTMS differ widely depending on the software, so it is important that you choose software suited to your needs.

There are two ways to connect this unit to your computer; using the MIDI connectors or the computer connector. If you use the MIDI connectors, you will need to obtain a computer interface board (adapter) that has MIDI connectors (such as the Roland Super MPU, etc.). If you use this unit's computer connector, you can use a special cable to connect it directly with the computer, but your software must be able to correspond to the serial port.

If you wish to connect your computer via the MIDI connectors, refer to p.122 (Connecting a computer via the MIDI connectors) for how to make connections. The following explanation will show how to make connections using this unit computer connec- tor.

●Connections with computer connector

Apple Macintosh

Apple Macintosh		IBM PC/AT			NEC PC-9800
MIDI	Mac	MIDI	Mac	MIDI	Mac	MIDI	Mac
PC-2	PC-1	PC-2	PC-1	PC-2	PC-1	PC-2	PC-1

Modem Port

Macintosh IIci

IBM PC/AT

	MIDI				COMPUTER
OUT/THRU	IN A	IN B
				MIDI	Mac
				PC-2	PC-1
R	L	R	L	R	L
INPUT	INPUT	OUTPUT1
VOLUME

Optional computer cable

RS-232CRSC-15APL

Optional computer cable

RSC-15AT

120	Chapter 6. Using the unit with a personal computer

Contents

OWNER'S MANUAL MIDI SOUND GENERATOR IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS SAVE THESE INSTRUCTIONS CAUTION: ATTENTION: WARNING CAUTION Introduction Main features of this unit IMPORTANT NOTES CONTENTS Chapter 1. Try out the unit (Quick start) Chapter 3. System Effects Chapter 5. Convenient functions Chapter 7. MIDI and the unit Chapter 6. Using the unit with a personal computer Chapter 8. Appendix Front and rear panel ■Front panel ■ Rear panel Try out the unit (Quick start) ■Connect a MIDI keyboard and play the sounds ●Turning the power on or off ❍Turning the power on 1. Before you turn the power on, check the following points Turn on the power of this unit and your MIDI equipment Turn on the power of your audio system ■Try out the various sounds ■Try out the buttons of the unit ●Transpose the pitch ■Apply effects to the sound ■Tuning to other instruments (Tuning) ALL >M. Tune: ■Headphones ■Audio input jacks / Audio input volume Page Parts and parameters ■Parts and sounds 026*TR-808 ❍To select the same sounds as the SC-55/SC-55mk ❍To select the same sounds as the SC-88 ●Selecting Variation sounds 3. Simultaneously press both INSTRUMENT [l ] [r ] buttons to enter Variation select mode A01 000/Piano 4.Press INSTRUMENT [l] or [r] to change the Variation number A01 008/Piano 1w To exit Variation select mode, simultaneously press both the INSTRU- MENT A01 001+Piano 1w A01 001 Piano A01 001#"Piano ●Reading the Instrument numbers and Variation numbers ●Part Channels Procedure 2.Use the PART [l] [r] buttons to select the Part whose channel you wish to change 3.Use the MIDI CH [l] [r] buttons to set the MIDI channel of the Part ●Which MIDI IN will be used by each Part ●How simultaneous note numbers and Voices are related ●Concerning legato-enabledsounds ■Part parameters for performance A01 >Part Mode: Norm ●What each parameter does ❍LEVEL (Volume level): 0 — ❍PAN (Panning): Rnd, L63 — 0 — R63 ❍KEY SHIFT: -24— ± 0 — +24: semitone steps, 2 octaves ❍M/P Mode (Mono/Poly Mode): Mono/Poly ❍Fine Tune: -100.0— +100.0 cent ❍Rx Bank Sel (Bank Select Receive Switch): On/Off ❍Rx NRPN (NRPN Receive Switch): On/Off ❍Velo Depth (Velocity Sensitivity Depth): 0 — ❍CC1 C.Number (CC1 Controller Number): 1 — ❍OUT Asgn (Output Assign): OUT-1/2/2L/2R ❍S.Tune C - B (Scale Tuning C - B): -64— +63 Page ■Part parameters for sound editing (Example) Vibrato editing display A01 Vib. |+20|± 0|± 0| Vibrato ❍Vibrato Rate: -64— +63 ❍Vibrato Depth: -64— +63 Filter ❍Cutoff Freq (Cutoff Frequency): -64— +63 ❍Resonance: -64— +63 Envelope ❍Attack Time: -64— +63 ❍Decay Time: -64— +63 ■Setting parameters common to all Parts ●How each parameter works ❍LEVEL (Master level): 0 — ❍PAN (Master Pan): L63 — 0 — R63 ❍KEY SHIFT (Master Key Shift): -24— ± 0 — +24 semitone steps, 2 octaves ❍MUTE (All Mute): On/Off ■System parameter settings A01 %Prevw Note: A4 %Display: Type1 %Peak Hold:Type1 %LCD Contrast: ■Using Patches ALL 001 RB START Page ■Creating a Drum Set (Drum Edit) 026*"TR-808 AD1 001 C#3 CrshCym1 5.Use the INSTRUMENT [l] [r] buttons select the Drum Instrument you wish to edit 6.Use the front panel parameter buttons to modify the parameter values 7. To return to the previous display, simultaneously press both the ●Using Chorus and Delay ●About the Assign Group System Effects ■How the effect section of the unit is organized Page ■System Effect settings ●Equalizer parameter functions ❍EQ Gain (Low): -12— 0 — +12dB ❍EQ Gain (High): -12— 0 — +12dB ❍EQ Low Freq (Equalizer Low Frequency): 200/400 Hz ❍EQ High Freq (Equalizer High Frequency): 3/6 kHz ●When you want to adjust the system effect for all Parts 2.Press the button of the effect you wish to adjust DELAY ●When you want to adjust the system effect for each Part 2.Use the PART [l] [r] buttons to select the Part you wish to modify ALL >Reverb: Hall2 ALL >Reverb: Plate ●Reverb parameter function ❍Reverb (Reverb Type) ❍Rev Charac. (Reverb Character) 0 — ❍Rev Pre-LPF(Reverb Pre Low Pass Filter) 0 — ❍Rev Level (Reverb Level) 0 — ●Chorus parameter function ❍Chorus (Chorus Type) ❍Cho Pre-LPF(Chorus Pre Low Pass Filter) ❍Cho Level (Chorus Level) 0 — ❍ChoFeedback (Chorus Feedback Level) ●Delay parameter function ❍Delay (Delay Type) ❍Dly Pre-LPF(Delay Pre Low Pass Filter) ❍Dly Time C (Delay Time Center) 0.1ms — 1.0s Insertion Effects Insertion effect settings ●Different effect types ❍Effects that modify the tone color (filter type) ❍Effects that distort the sound (distortion type) ❍Effects that modulate the sound (modula- tion type) Page Page ❍Effects that affect the level (compressor type) ❍Effects that broaden the sound (chorus type) ❍Effects that reverberate the sound (delay/reverb type) Page Page Page Page ❍Effects that modify the pitch (pitch shift type) ❍Others ❍Effects that connect two types of effect in series (series 2) Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page ❍Effects that connect two types of effect in parallel (parallel 2) Page Page Page Page Page Page Page ■Using controllers to modify effect parameters ALL >EFX C.Src1: Off Examples of using effect controllers ●Using Control Change 16 to modify the Drive value of 6: Distortion ●Using Control Change 16 to modify the Speed value of 9: Rotary ●Using Control Change 16 to modify the Wah Man value of 50:GTR Multi3 Convenient functions ■Create and save a sound (User Instrument) 032 Gt.Harmonics A01 Vib. |+20|± 0|± 0| 5. Simultaneously press [USER INST] and [SELECT] A16 Write UI 64/032 6. When you press [ALL] the sound will be stored ■Creating and saving an Insertion effect (User Effect) ■Creating and saving a Patch (User Patch) Make the desired settings for the parameters of Parts A01 and A02 ●Saving a User Patch 2. Press the [ALL] button to make the button indicator light 3. Simultaneously press [USER INST] and [SELECT] U01 -USERPATCH01 ■Saving a Drum Set you created (User Drum) SET 065*ˇSER DRUM1 SET 066*ˇSER DRUM2 AD1 001 C#3 CrshCym1 ❍Storing an individual Drum Instrument (procedure 1) AD1 Write UD D#3/65 5. To store the data, press [ALL] ❍Storing an entire Drum Set (procedure 2) 4-2.Tostore the entire Drum Set, simultaneously press EFX VALUE [l] [r] buttons AD1 Write U.DRUM 65 4-1 ■Copying or Exchanging settings between Parts / Initializing Part settings Use PART [l][r] to select the source Part Use the following procedure 4. To execute the specified operation, press the [ALL] button ■Recording all settings on a sequencer ●Transmitting Individual Data ❍Transmission procedure for Part parameters ❍Transmission procedure for parameters common to all parts 1. Part parameters: Press the [ALL] button to make the indicator dark ❍Transmission procedure for Insertion Effect parameters 1. Press the [EFX] button to make the indicator light orange 3. Press EFX TYPE [l] or [r], and the Effect Type will be displayed. At this 4. Press EFX PARAM [l] or [r], and the effect parameters will be displayed Draw pictures or characters in the display (Frame Draw) Page ■Creating compatible data for the unit / SC-88 1.Hold down [SELECT], and press [ALL] 2.To turn off SC-88-compatibilitymode, hold down [SELECT] and press [ALL] ■Selecting the CM-64sound map Part settings Settings for all Parts ●Differences between the CM-64and the unit 1. How the sounds change 2. Exclusive data ■Using the unit as two sound modules >M. Tune: Page ■Initialize Using the unit with a personal computer ■Connections with your computer Types of computer cable 4. Turn power of this unit on ●Connections with MIDI connectors ●MIDI data transfer with the computer ❍When the computer switch is set to PC-1, PC-2or Mac ❍When the computer switch is set to MIDI ●Connecting another MIDI sound source to the unit When using another sound source to play data received at the computer connector ❍When using another sound source to play data received at MIDI IN A ■Using MIDI messages to select sounds Page ●Using MIDI messages to select Drum Sets Exclusive data addresses MIDI and the unit ■About MIDI ■MIDI messages that can be received by the unit Hold (1) (control change number 64) ✩ Sostenuto (control change number 66) Soft (control change number 67) Reverb Send Level (control change number 91) Chorus Send Level (control change number 93) ❍All Sounds Off ❍All Notes Off ✩ ❍Reset All Controllers ✩ ❍Active Sensing ❍System Exclusive messages ■Device ID number settings ALL >Device ID: ■MIDI message routing settings and switches %IN B Sel.:Rear ❍OUT/THRU (MIDI OUT/THRU Select) OUT/THRU ❍In Mode (Input Modes) Standard, X-connect,Merge → A, Merge → B, A only Standard X-connect(Cross connect) Merge → A Standard Merge ->A Merge ->B A only ALL >Rx GS Reset: On ALL >Rx GS Reset: Off ●How each switches works ❍MUTE Lock (Mute Lock) On/Off ❍EQ Lock (Equalizer Lock) On/Off ❍Rx GM On (GM System On Receive Switch) On/Off ❍Rx GS On (GS Reset Receive Switch) On/Off >Rx Bank Sel: On ●Using NRPNs with GS Sound Modules ●When song data plays back with the wrong sounds ●Using screen display data for the SC-55series ●Using Aftertouch ●Using MIDI to control the depth of a System Effect Appendix ■Troubleshooting ●Sound is distorted ●Pitch is incorrect ●Sound is wrong ●Sounds are interrupted ●Able to play only from either MIDI IN A or MIDI IN B ■If a message appears ■Computer cable wiring diagrams ■Parameter list and operations ●Effects ●Drum edit ●User edit ●MIDI-related ●System functions ●Other functions ■Instrument list Guitar Bass Strings/orchestra Brass Reed Pipe Synth lead Synth pad, etc Synth SFX Ethnic, etc Percussive SFX Page SC-55MAP (CM-64Sound Map) ■Drum set list Native Drum set (1) Native Drum set (2) Native Drum set (3) Native Drum set (4) Native Drum set (5) Native Drum set (6) Native Drum set (7) SC-88Drum set (1) SC-88Drum set (2) SC-88Drum set (3) SC-55Drum set SFX set , CM-64 /32L Drum set ■Effect list Page Page Page Page Page Page ■Effect data table Page Page ■Preset Patch list Page ■MIDI implementation Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page MIDI Implementation Chart ■ INDEX Page Page Apparatus containing Lithium batteries FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE STATEMENT Specifications ●Number of parts ●Maximum Polyphony ●Internal Memory ●Effects