User manual ROLAND DP-970

[. . . ] Owner´s M anual Thank you, and congratulations on your choice of the Roland Digital Piano DP-970. Assembling the DP-970 Before You Start Playing Enjoying the Internal Songs Playing the Keyboard Contents Index p. 56 201a Before using this unit, carefully read the sections entitled: "USING THE UNIT SAFELY" (p. 3, 4) and "IMPORTANT NOTES" (p. These sections provide important information concerning the proper operation of the unit. [. . . ] When recording begins, the [Play] button and [Rec] button indicators will light. Go ahead and perform on the keyboard. Refer to the previous page if recording a song that starts with pickup beats (where the song begins on a beat other than the first beat of the measure). Stop recording 7 Press the [Play] or [Rec] button. Recording will stop, and the indicators for the [Play] and [Rec] buttons will go dark. If you record without specifying the recording track, the performance will be recorded to the [Left] button. If you want to record the right and left hands separately on separate recording tracks, refer to "Recording the Right-Hand and Left-Hand Parts Separately" (p. 36). Play back the recorded performance 8 Press the [Play] button. You will hear the recorded performance. Once again press the [Play] button, and playback will stop. 34 Chapter 4. Recording Your Performance Recording Along with a Song You can record a performance that you play along with an internal song. Using the [Left] or [Right] buttons, you can perform and record just the right-hand part of a song while listening to the left-hand playback of an internal song. fig. panel4-3 3 Selecting the song to record 2 1 3 6, 7, 8 4, 7 5 1 2 3 4 Press the [Song/Tempo] button, getting its indicator to light in red. The display will indicate the song number for several seconds. Use the [-] or [+] button to select the song that you want to play. As necessary, set the tone, metronome, and tempo (p. Press the [Rec] button. The [Rec] button's indicator will light. Selecting the track to record If "dEL" appears in the display, refer to p. 33. 5 Press the [Left] or [Right] button. When you want to record the left-hand performance, press the [Left] button; to record that of the right hand, press the [Right] button. The indicators of the button you pressed and of the [Play] button will blink, and the DP-970 enters recording-standby mode. Starting to record 6 Press the [Play] button. Recording begins after two measures of count sound. Play along with the song. Stop recording 7 Press the [Play] or [Rec] button. Recording will stop, and the indicators for the [Play] and [Rec] buttons will go dark. The recorded performance is stored in "USr (User). " Play back the recorded performance 8 Press the [Play] button. You will hear the recorded performance. Once again press the [Play] button, and playback will stop. 35 Chapter 4. Recording Your Performance Recording the Right-Hand and Left-Hand Parts Separately You can use the DP-970's recorder to record the right-hand and left-hand parts separately. You can also specify individual parts to record to when you want to do a recording over again. Press the [Left] or [Right] button to specify the part to be recorded. fig. trackbuttons. e Left-hand Right-hand Part Part fig. panel4-4 1 4, 5, 6 2, 5 3 As described in steps 1 and 2 of "Recording a New Song" (p. 34), select "USr" before you continue. When layering recordings with internal songs, select the internal song as described in steps 1 and 2 of "Selecting a Song and Playing It" (p. 15). NOTE If you layer on a newly recorded performance without erasing the recorded song, the song tempo, beat, and metronome settings of the original recording will be stored along with the new recording. 1 2 As necessary, turn on the metronome (p. Press the [Rec] button. The [Rec] button's indicator will light. The indicator on the button for the part to which a performance has been recorded will light. [. . . ] 15J-150 Jakarta Pusat INDONESIA TEL: (021) 6324170 CHILE Comercial Fancy II S. A. Rut. : 96. 919. 420-1 Nataniel Cox #739, 4th Floor Santiago - Centro, CHILE TEL: (02) 688-9540 PARAGUAY Distribuidora De Instrumentos Musicales J. E. Manduvira Asuncion PARAGUAY TEL: (595) 21 492147 HUNGARY Roland East Europe Ltd. Warehouse Area `DEPO' Pf. 83 H-2046 Torokbalint, HUNGARY TEL: (23) 511011 MIDDLE EAST BAHRAIN Moon Stores No. 16, Bab Al Bahrain Avenue, P. O. Box 247, Manama 304, State of BAHRAIN TEL: 17 211 005 KOREA Cosmos Corporation 1461-9, Seocho-Dong, Seocho Ku, Seoul, KOREA TEL: (02) 3486-8855 COLOMBIA Centro Musical Ltda. [. . . ]