Roland XP-30 Playing in Performance Mode, Selecting a Performance, Changing Sound Characters

Changing Sound Characters

1.Make sure that the PATCH PLAY display is showing.

2.Press [FILTER/ENV] and its indicator lights.

3.Move the sliders while you play to vary the sound. To modify the brightness, move the CUTOFF slider. To change resonance, move the RESO. slider.

To change attack time, move the ATTACK slider. To change decay time, move the DECAY slider.

Changing the Volume of Each Tone

1.Make sure that the PATCH PLAY display is showing.

2.Press [LEVEL] and its indicator lights.

3.Move the LEVEL slider as you play the keyboard to adjust volume as desired.

Sliders 1, 2, 3, and 4 are used to change the volume of Tones 1, 2, 3, and 4, respectively.

Playing in Performance Mode

There are two types of performances: Layer performances and Single performances. The upper right of the display will indicate “LAYER p* “ (* is the part number) for a layer performance, and “part=* “ (* is the part number) for a single performance.

Layer Performance allows playing two or more Parts simultaneously on the keyboard. Select Layer Performance if you want fat, rich sounds of two or more Patches, or play different Patches in a split keyboard’s different sections. Single Performance plays only the Part shown in the display (current Part). Select Single Performance for playing a song using two or more instruments.

*Make your Performance type selection with the Key Mode parameter (PERFORM/COMMON/PERFORM COMMON). The Key Mode parameter determines how the XP-30 keyboard will play the internal sound source. It has no effect on how the XP-30 sound source is played from the built-in sequencer or an external MIDI device.

*You can toggle between SINGLE and LAYER directly from the PERFORM PLAY display by pressing [SOLO] while holding down [SHIFT].

Chapter 2. Playing

■Selecting a Performance

The XP-30 offers three groups of Performances (User, Presets A and B) with each group having 32 Performances. A total of 96 Performances is available.

USER

The XP-30 user memory includes 32 Performances that can be rewritten to produce your own Performances.

PR-A–B (Preset A–B)

The XP-30 contains 64 preset Performances that cannot be rewritten. But you can call up preset Performance settings into the temporary area, modify them, and then store them in user memory.

1. Press [PERFORM] to call up the 52			2
PERFORM PLAY display.			Chapter
	Performance number
Performance group		Performance name

2.Rotate the VALUE dial or press [INC]/[DEC] to select a Performance.

Selecting a Performance Using

Numeric Keys

You can choose a Performance with direct numeric key input.

1.Press [PERFORM] to call up the PERFORM PLAY display.

2.Use the following buttons to select the Performance group.

Button	Performance Group
[SHIFT] + [1]	PR-A (Preset A)
[SHIFT] + [2]	PR-B (Preset B)
[SHIFT] + [6]	USER (User)

3.Use numeric keys to input the Performance number. The performance number and name will blink. At this time the Performance has not yet been finalized.

4.Press [ENTER] to finalize the entry.

*Using Digit Hold, a Performance can be selected simply by specifying the 1’s place number (p. 48).

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