User manual ROLAND DRP-1

[. . . ] 4), and "IMPORTANT NOTES" (Owner's Manual p. These sections provide important information concerning the proper operation of the unit. Additionally, in order to feel assured that you have gained a good grasp of every feature provided by your new unit, Quick Start and Owner's Manual should be read in its entirety. The manual should be saved and kept on hand as a convenient reference. [. . . ] The REC indicator (red) 3 Owner's Manual p. The REC indicator (red) "Loop Recording" provides a convenient way to record drum patterns. For details, refer to Loop recording (p. 19). and PLAY indicator (green) will light. 4 Perform Strike the to begin performing. The performance data will be recorded. 5 When you are finished recording, press . Recording will stop. If you want to erase data that you input, hold down [EVENT ERASE] (while you are still in recording mode) and hold down the pad of the note number you want to erase. Events of the note number whose pad you are holding down will be erased from the current track when the current time location passes over the event. 17 Creating a song Creating a new song Here's how to create a new song that contains no data. 1 Press SONG . The SONG SETUP MENU screen will appear. 2 Choose CREATE NEW SONG and press . The CREATE NEW SONG screen will appear. 3 Select a Track Layout. For this example, select Track Layout = "01 Very Simple, " and check the Instrument parameter. If you create a song without checking the Instrument box in Copy Current, instrument settings will not be copied to the new song. This means that immediately after creating the song, striking the pads will not produce sound. Parameter Instrument Effect Explanation If you check this, the source material data of the current song will be used in the new song. If you check this, the effect settings of the current song will be used in the new song. For details on other song settings, refer to Owner's Manual p. 239. 4 Press (Execute). The newly created song will become the current song, and the Sequence screen will appear. The "current song" is the song data that is currently loaded. 18 Creating a song Loop recording Here's how you can use Loop Recording to keep layering additional pad performances while the specified region continues to loop (i. e. , plays back repeatedly). "Loop" is a function that repeatedly plays back the specified region. Creating a song 1 2 3 Press . The SEQUENCE screen (Owner's Manual p. 184) will appear. Press . The current time location will return to the beginning of the song (0001-01-000). Press . The four measures starting at the beginning of the current measure will be set as the loop region, and the Loop screen will be turned on ( is lit). In this To change the loop region, move the time to the measure from which you want to loop, and press [QUICK SET] once again. example, the loop region extends from the beginning of the song (0001-01-000) to the end of the fourth measure (0004-04-479). 4 Try these! Rehearsal To change the loop length, press [MENU] in the SEQUENCE screen and choose Loop, or press [SHIFT] + [LOOP ON]. Set the Loop Quick Set Length parameter in the LOOP pop-up. Begin recording as described in Creating a new song (p. 208) function that directly affects the sequence data itself, and a "Imput Quantize" (Owner's Manual p. 190) function that applies quantization while you are recording the sequence data. You can use "Quantize Templates" (Owner's Manual p. 208) to quantize a performance to various types of "groove. " 21 Creating a song Recording a live performance Here's how to use an audio track to record audio (Direct Recording). For example you might use this to record a vocal along with your sequence data. 1 Create an audio track as described in Creating a track for sequence recording (p. 20), and make it the current track. Recording will take place on the current track. The actual audio data itself is not recorded on the audio track; rather, the audio track records the timing of the sound. 2 Press Phrs/In). , and then (AUX/ The AUX/FX/AUDIO PHRASE/INPUT MIXER screen will appear. 3 4 Clip Recommended input level Set the IN (A) slider to 100. While singing or speaking into your mic, gradually turn the SENS knob toward the right. Adjust the knob so that the IN (A) (analog input) level meter shown in the LCD moves approximately in the upper half (the -12­0 dB region). You can use the sliders of the DRP-1's front panel to adjust the sliders displayed in the screen. If the IN (A) level meter moves all the way to the top (clip) position when using analog input, the input level is too high. Turn the SENS knob toward the left. 5 Press . The REC indicator (red) will blink, and the RECORDING PARAMETER screen will appear. You can't use Direct Recording when [LOOP ON] is lit. Pressing [REC] will temporarily disable looping ([LOOP ON] will blink). 6 For the REC Mode parameter, specify Direct. With this setting, your live performance can be recorded on the audio track. For details on other recording parameters, refer to Owner's Manual p. 193. 7 Press . Recording will begin. The REC indicator (red) and PLAY indicator (green) will light. Record your vocal performance. During recording, you can press [REC] to stop recording but continue playback ("punch-out"). When you press [REC] once again, recording will resume ("punch-in"). 22 Creating a song Saving your completed composition So that an unexpected accident does not cause you to loose the data you have edited up to this point, let's save it to the DRP-1's internal hard disk. Creating a song 1 2 Press . The PROJECT screen will appear. Choose SAVE PROJECT, and press . A message will ask "Save Current Project?" 3 To save, press (YES). You can also use [SHIFT] + [SHUTDOWN] to save your project. [. . . ] Box 62, Doha, QATAR TEL: 4423-554 Paul Bothner (PTY) Ltd. 17 Werdmuller Centre, Main Road, Claremont 7708 SOUTH AFRICA P. O. BOX 23032, Claremont 7735, SOUTH AFRICA TEL: (021) 674 4030 ROMANIA FBS LINES Piata Libertatii 1, RO-4200 Gheorghehi TEL: (095) 169-5043 EUROPE AUSTRIA Roland Austria GES. M. B. H. Siemensstrasse 4, P. O. Box 74, A-6063 RUM, AUSTRIA TEL: (0512) 26 44 260 ASIA CHINA Roland Shanghai Electronics Co. , Ltd. 5F. No. 1500 Pingliang Road Shanghai, CHINA TEL: (021) 5580-0800 AUSTRALIA/ NEW ZEALAND AUSTRALIA Roland Corporation Australia Pty. , Ltd. 38 Campbell Avenue Dee Why West. NSW 2099 AUSTRALIA TEL: (02) 9982 8266 RUSSIA MuTek 3-Bogatyrskaya Str. [. . . ]