Roland E-60 User Manual

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8. Using the mixer functions & effects . . . . . . . . . . 81

Mixing Keyboard parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Volume and status of the Style parts . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Editing the Keyboard effects processors . . . . . . . . . . 83

Reverb for Keyboard parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Chorus for Keyboard parts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Using the multi-effects processor (Multi-FX). . . . . . 84

Selecting another MFX type and editing it. . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Linking Multi-FX type selection to the Upper1 part

(Upper 1 M-FX Link) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Effects for Songs and Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Reverb for Style/Song parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Chorus for Style/Song parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Digital Bass Enhancer function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

9. Working with User Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Saving your settings to a User Program . . . . . . . . . . 88
Selecting User Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Cancel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Choosing User Programs manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Selecting User Programs with

[DOWN][UP]

. . . . . . . . . . . 90

Working with the User Program Finder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Quick location of the User Program you need. . . . . . . . . 91
Selectively loading User Program settings

(User Program Hold) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Bypassing the AUTO FILL function (Fill In On

User Program Change) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Automatic functions for User Programs . . . . . . . . . . 93

Song Link . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Linking a MIDI Set to a User Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
User Program Recall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Editing User Program Finder information. . . . . . . . . 95

Editing the User Program Finder information . . . . . . . . . 96
Editing an Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Music Assistant functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Creating new Music Assistant registrations . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Editing Music Assistant registrations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100
Saving a Music Assistant entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100

10. Song and Style Makeup Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Mixing Song or Style parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Using the Makeup Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

General procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104
PALETTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .105
SOUND EDIT for sounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .105
SOUND EDIT for Drum Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .106
DRUM INSTR EDIT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .106
COMMON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .107

Before saving your settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Saving your modified song or Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

11. More refined song functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Programming MARK & JUMP locations . . . . . . . . . 109
Working with the Song Finder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Locating files with the Song Finder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .110
Editing the Song Finder information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111
Editing an Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .113

Play List function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Programming Play Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .115
Editing Play Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .116
Using Play Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .118
Managing Play Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .118

12. Editing Lyrics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Adding Lyrics to a song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Exporting Lyrics data as text file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

13. Using the 16-track sequencer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

About the sequencer’s main page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
General considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Example 1: Recording a song from scratch . . . . . . 124

Preparations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Example 2: Adding tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Saving your song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Editing 16-track songs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Easy editing and useful functions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Editing one or several tracks (TRACK EDIT) . . . . . . . . . . 129

Editing song data using Microscope Edit . . . . . . . . 143

General notes about MICRO EDIT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Editing events. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Other edit operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Style Converter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

General considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Using the Style Converter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Auditioning the tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

14. Programming Styles (Style Composer) . . . . . . . . 151

Concept . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Recording Styles from scratch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Starting the Style Composer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Clearing the RAM memory (Initialize Style) . . . . . . . . . 152
Getting ready for the first track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Auditioning your Style and adding more tracks . . 156

Saving your Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Recording other tracks and divisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Muting tracks while recording others . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Remarks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Using existing Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Starting with all tracks of an existing Style . . . . . . . . . 158
Copying individual Style tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Editing Styles on the fly via additional recordings 160

Adding notes in realtime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Adding controller data in realtime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Adding or changing settings of existing parts . . . . . . . 160
Expression, Panpot, Reverb, Chorus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Changing the preset tempo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Style Track Edit functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Editing individual Style events (Style Micro Edit) . 170

General notes about STYLE MICRO EDIT . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Editing events. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Other edit operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

15. Disk/Media functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

The how-to’s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Loading data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Saving data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Rename functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Delete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Import User Program function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

16. Archiving data using a computer (USB) . . . . . . . 184

Backing up all of the E-60/E-50’s data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
Just in case… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

17. MIDI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

The how-to’s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Accessing the MIDI functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Working with presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
Editing procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

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