Roland XP-30 owner manual Playing an Arpeggio, Playing Percussion Instruments

Chapter 2. Playing

■Playing Percussion Instruments

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

2.Select a desired Rhythm Set.

3.Press a key on the keyboard to play a percussion instrument.

The key (Note name) you press and its percussion instrument name (Rhythm Tone name, the same as the Wave it uses) will be displayed below the Rhythm Set name.

Note name Rhythm Tone name

You can also use the TONE SELECT buttons to select the displayed key.

[TONE SELECT 1]: move to an octave lower key

[TONE SELECT 2]: move to the semitone below

[TONE SELECT 3]: move to the semitone above

[TONE SELECT 4]: move to an octave higher key

*When you want to play the percussive instrument sound assigned to the B1 key, first push [-OCT] once, then press the B2 key. Similarly, push [+OCT] once then press the C#6 or D6 key to play the percussive instrument sound assigned to the C#7 or D7 key. (On the XP-30, the leftmost white key is C2, and rightmost white key is C7.)

For details, refer to “Transposing the Keyboard in Octave

Units (Octave Shift)” (p. 59).

Playing an Arpeggio

The XP-30’s Arpeggiator lets you produce an arpeggio (broken chord) simply by playing a chord. In addition to normal arpeggios, you can also accurately simulate guitar cutting or strumming techniques depending on the Arpeggiator settings. The Arpeggiator can in fact be used as a handy automatic arranger.

By pressing [ARPEGGIO], the indicator lights and allows playing arpeggios from the XP-30 keyboard.

*If you press [ARPEGGIO] to turn this function on when Single Performance is selected, the current Part will play arpeggios. When a Layer Performance is selected, an arpeggio will sound for the Part specified by the Part parameter (SYSTEM/

ARPEGGIO/ARPEGGIO).

*The arpeggios played by the arpeggiator are also transmitted from the MIDI OUT connector to external MIDI devices.

1.Make sure that the PLAY display of the sound source mode (PERFORM, PATCH, RHYTHM, GM) is displayed.

2.Press [ARPEGGIO] to turn the Arpeggiator on.

3.If you wish to change how the arpeggio is played, hold down [ARPEGGIO] to access the ARP SELECT display, move the cursor to the Style parameter, and change the setting.

*The selection you make here will also affect the Style parameter (SYSTEM/ARPEGGIO/ARPEGGIO) settings.

There are 43 arpeggio styles available. For selection, refer to the following guideline.

Playing an Arpeggio According to the Timing Interval of a Note

1/4–1/32

Playing a Glissando

GLISSANDO

Playing a Bass Part

SYNTH BASS, SLAP BASS A, SLAP BASS B, WALK BASS

Playing a Guitar

RHYTHM GTR A, RHYTHM GTR B, RHYTHM GTR C, RHYTHM GTR D, RHYTHM GTR E, 3FINGER GTR, STRUMMING GTR

Playing a Keyboard Instrument

KBD COMPING A, KBD COMPING B

Playing a Waltz

KBD COMPING C, KBD COMPING D

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