Document Outline

• IMPORTANT NOTES
• Contents
• Main Features
• Panel descriptions
  • Front panel
  • Rear panel
• Getting ready
• Reset to default factory settings (Factory Reset)
• Listening to the demo songs
• Quick Start
  • Try out the sounds
  • Applying various effects to the sound
  • Using the Rhythm Guide
• Advanced Use
  • Overview of the RS-50
    • How the instrument is organized
    • Classification of RS-50 sound types
    • Effects
    • Number of voices
    • About memory
      • Temporary memory
      • Rewritable memory
      • Non-rewritable memory
  • Basic operation of the RS-50
    • Switching the mode
      • Patch mode
      • Performance mode
    • Editing parameters
      • Basic procedure
      • Executing a command
      • Assigning a name
      • When one page contains two or more settings
    • Inputting numbers and numerals
    • Selecting a part
  • Creating a patch (Patch mode)
    • How to make the patch settings
      • Changing the way that the tones are sounded (Key Mode)
      • Editing the patch parameters
      • Making settings that apply to the entire patch (Patch Common parameters)
      • Making settings for an individual tone (Patch Tone parameters)
    • Saving a patch
    • Convenient functions for patch editing (Patch Utility)
      • Copying patch parameters (PATCH PRM COPY)
      • Initializing the parameters of a patch (PATCH INITIALIZE)
      • Erasing a user patch you saved (PATCH REMOVE)
      • Transmitting patch/rhythm set settings from the MIDI OUT connector (XFER to MIDI)
      • Restoring the factory settings (FACTORY RESET)
  • Creating a rhythm set (Patch mode)
    • How to make the rhythm set settings
      • Editing the rhythm set parameters
      • Making settings that apply to the entire rhythm set (Rhythm Common parameters)
      • Editing the settings of each rhythm tone (key) (Rhythm Tone parameters)
    • Saving a rhythm set (User Rhythm Set)
    • Convenient functions for rhythm set editing (Rhythm Set Utility)
      • Copying effect settings from a rhythm set (RHY PRM COPY)
      • Initializing the settings of a specific rhythm tone (RHY INITIALIZE)
      • Erasing a rhythm set you saved (RHY REMOVE)
  • Playing more than one sound simultaneously (Performance mode)
    • Choosing a part and selecting the sound
      • Selecting performance numbers
    • Editing the settings of a performance
      • Making settings that apply to the entire performance
      • Editing the effect settings of a performance
      • Editing the part settings of a performance (Part Setup)
      • Editing the effect settings for each part of the performance (Performance Part Effect)
    • Saving a performance
    • Convenient functions for performance editing (Performance Utility)
      • Copying part or effect parameters (PERFORM PRM COPY)
      • Initializing the parameters of a performance (PERFORM INIT)
      • Transmitting performance settings from the MIDI OUT connector (XFER to MIDI)
      • Restoring the factory settings (FACTORY RESET)
  • Using the phrase/arpeggio function
    • Creating your own arpeggio template (User Template)
  • Using chord memory function
    • Creating an original chord set (User Chord Set)
  • Adding effects
    • Turning the effect function on and off (MASTER EFFECT SWITCH)
    • The effect signal path
    • Making effects settings
    • Setting multi-effects parameters
    • Making chorus settings
    • Making reverb settings
  • Settings common to all modes (System Function)
    • How to make the system function settings
    • Functions of the system parameters
      • Settings common to the entire system (GENERAL)
      • Settings related to controllers (CONTROLLER)
      • Settings related to MIDI (MIDI)
      • Making scale tune settings for a patch (PATCH SCALE)
  • Performing with an external MIDI device
    • About MIDI
    • MIDI messages used by the RS-50
    • Using the RS-50 to play an external MIDI sound module
      • Connecting to external MIDI sound modules
      • Set the keyboard transmit channel
    • Playing the RS-50’s sound generator from an external MIDI device
      • Connecting an external MIDI device
      • Setting the patch receive channel
      • Setting the program change receive switch
      • Selecting RS-50 sounds from an external MIDI device
      • Using an external MIDI controller to change the RS-50’s tones
    • Recording to an external sequencer
      • Connecting to an external sequencer
      • Making settings before recording
      • Recording
      • Listening to the recorded performance
      • Playing together with the playback of a recorded performance
      • Transposing playback of performances (Master Key Shift)
    • Backing-up (saving) all RS-50 settings on your external MIDI sequencer
    • Using the RS-50 as a General MIDI/General MIDI 2 system- compatible sound module
      • Playing back General MIDI/General MIDI 2 music data
  • Performing with a computer
• Appendix
  • Troubleshooting
  • Error Messages/Messages
  • Parameter list
  • Original tone list
  • Patch list
  • Rhythm set list
  • Performance list
  • Arpeggio template list
  • Arpeggio style list
  • Multi-chord set list
  • Rhythm guide list
  • MIDI implementation chart
  • Specifications
  • Index