Roland E-80 - Manual (Page 46)

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E-80 Music Workstation
Vocal Harmonist function
The Vocal Harmonist is another highlight of your E-80.
In fact, it doesn’t just produce harmonies: it can also
transform your voice in various ways. More impor-
tantly, its sound quality surpasses by far anything you
may already have tried.
Setting up
Here’s what you need to do to take advantage of the
Vocal Harmonist function:
(1) Connect a dynamic microphone to the INPUT jack
on the E-80’s rear panel.
(2) Set the [INPUT] switch to “MIC”.
You can also connect the (mono) output of other
instruments. In that case, you need to set the switch
to “LINE”.
(3) Set the [INPUT≈GAIN] knob on the front panel to
“MIN”.
(4) Press the [SINGER] button (it must light) and switch
off the [VOCODER], [SMALL] or [ENSEMBLE] button.
(5) Sing into the microphone and gradually increase
the [INPUT¥GAIN] setting.
Set it to the highest possible value, taking care to
avoid that the OVER indicator lights. It would be best
to sing at the level you will be using during your per-
formances.
(6) If your singing is inaudible in the speakers con-
nected to the amp (or the headphones), turn the
[VOICE] knob towards the right (towards “MAX”).
Note: If a howling sound (a.k.a. “feedback”) is produced, your
microphone may be pointed at a speaker. Try orienting it dif-
ferently or slightly reduce the [VOICE] setting.
(7) Use the [EFFECTS] knob to set the balance between
your original singing and the effects that are
added to your voice.
Note: You can start song playback and sing to it. See “Playing
back songs (Standard MIDI Files)” on p. 41 and “Minus One” on
p. 45 for details.
Your E-80 provides a compressor effect you might
want to set up now. The compressor reduces volume
peaks and thus “levels out” differences in the micro-
phone signal.
The gate effect, on the other hand can be used to
avoid that background noises cause the Vocal Har-
monist, etc., to start working even though you are
not singing.
These two effects are located immediately behind the
MIC INPUT socket and thus applied to the micro-
phone signal before it is processed by the Vocal Har-
monist section.
(8) Press and hold the [SINGER] button to jump to the
following page:
Set to “MIC”
Examples: Roland DR-10 or DR-20
KEYBOARD MODE ARPEGGIO
SEQ CTRL /
2
7
1
6
TRANSPOSE X-DUAL DUAL SPLIT
3
8
4
9
5
0
VARIATION TONE
ENTER PERFORM
/SYSTEM CONTROL KEYBOARD MIDI/TUNE LEVEL/PAN
/EFFECT ARPEGGIO
/ TONE PERFORM
/ PRESET USER
EDIT UTILITY
DRUM ENVELOPE FILTER VIBRATO TONE
CANCEL EXIT
UPPER LOWER
ROM PLAY
VOLUME PALETTE
SELECT ON/OFF
PART
VALUE EDIT
1 2 COMBINATION PALETTE
Preset:001 1>Piano 1
L/MONO
Synthesizer, sound module, etc.
Set to “LINE”
INPUT GAIN
OVER
MIN MAX
SINGER
Compressor, Gate and effects
EFFECTS
OFF MAX