Roland VS-880EX 122, Tempo, Measure Measure, Beat, Limitations on changing the starting mea- sure

Chapter 9 Use with MIDI Devices

4.Tempo Map 1 (the song’s initial tempo) is dis- played. The measure appearing in the display and its beat, metronome sound, and MIDI Clock trans- mitted from the VS-880EX follow the tempo map settings. The following example indicates that a tempo map with time signature of 4/4 and quar- ter note=120 begins at measure 1.

Begining Measure	Tempo Map Number
Beat		Tempo
CONDITION MARKER#		TIME

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0

4

12

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5.Press CURSOR [ ].

The cursor will move to the tempo display.

6.Rotate the TIME/VALUE dial.

(Tempo)

Sets the tempo map tempo (25.0–250.0).

7.Press CURSOR [ ].

The cursor will move to the measure display (“MEA- SURE” field).

8.Rotate the TIME/VALUE dial.

Measure (Measure)

Selects the beginning measure (1–999) for each tempo map.

*Tempo Map 1 is the song’s initial tempo. You cannot be changed or deleted the beginning measure setting of “1.”

9.Press CURSOR [ ].

The cursor will move to the time signature display (“BEAT” field).

10.Rotate the TIME/VALUE dial.

Beat

This sets the tempo map time signature (1/1–8/1, 1/2–8/2, 1/4–8/4, 1/8–8/8).

11.If you wish to change the tempo during the song,

press CURSOR [ ].

The cursor will move to the tempo map number dis- play.

12.Rotate the TIME/VALUE dial clockwise. “<New>” appears in the display.

13.Press [YES].

14.Repeat steps 4–13 to specify the tempo map. By rotating the TIME/VALUE dial counterclockwise in step 12, you can modify a previously-specified tempo/starting measure/time signature.

Limitations on changing the starting mea- sure

Tempo maps are numbered from the beginning of the song as tempo map 1, tempo map 2, tempo map 3, etc. This means that it is not possible to modify the starting measure of a tempo map to make it earlier than the starting measure of the previous tempo map, or later than the starting measure of the following tempo map. For exam- ple if tempo map 2 has a starting measure of “8” and tempo map 4 has a starting measure of “16,” the starting measure of tempo map 3 can be modi- fied only in the range of “9–15.”

15.When you are finished making tempo map set- tings, press [PLAY (DISPLAY)].

Return to Play condition.

Synchronized Operation

1.Connect the VS-880EX and the MIDI sequencer as shown below.

MIDI IN

MIDI Sequencer

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