User manual ROLAND G-70

[. . . ] r ENGLISH ENGLISH Owner's Manual ENGLISH Thank you for purchasing the Roland G-70 Music Workstation. The G-70 is Roland's most complete arranger keyboard yet, a collection of all major advantages a Roland instrument can offer: perfect accompaniments, high-class sounds, the possibility to expand the number of sounds via an optional expansion board (SRX series), a D Beam controller, virtual harmonic organ bars, professional effects, a Vocal Harmonist, the Cover functions first introduced on Roland's unique DisCover 5 keyboard. . . There's simply too much to mention in this introduction. Much care has been taken to facilitate access to all those countless functions, which is why the G-70 comes with a fullcolor touch screen and a user interface that walks you through anything you may want to do with your G-70. [. . . ] · Press [Space] to insert a blank (or the number "0"). The [OPTIONS] field in the lower left corner provides access to a display page where you can add database information. This also works for songs that already contain entries. (1) First select the song whose database information you wish to edit by pressing its field. 141 G-70 Music Workstation More refined song functions (2) Press the [OPTIONS] field. IP&S Input You can also add a musical phrase to your songs if you wish to take advantage of the Play & Search facility. See page 38 for how to use that facility in a real-life situation. Here's how to program the phrase: Note: This information cannot be entered for files that reside on a floppy disk. Be sure to copy your song to the internal memory or a memory card (see p. 142) and to edit that copy. (1) On the SONG OPTIONS page, press the [P&S¥INPUT] field. (3) Now do one of the following: IRename This function allows you to change (or supply) information for the selected song. · Press the [SONG¥NAME], [ARTIST], [GENRE] or [FILE¥NAME] field and enter the desired characters. · The [A/a] field allows you to switch between uppercase and lowercase characters. Note: If you select a song on floppy disk, only the SONG NAME and FILE NAME can be edited. · Press the [EXECUTE] field. The "Operation Successful" message appears to confirm this operation. IDelete This function allows you to delete the selected song from the internal memory area, memory card or floppy disk. You should use this as sparsely as possible. Once a song is gone, there is indeed no way to restore it. Deleting a song cannot be undone, which is why the following question is now displayed: (2) Play the notes of the main theme (the one you'll most likely play when using Play & Search for locating this song). The key and rhythm are of little importance (you must get the intervals right, though!). The boxes will display a quarter note for every note you played. Five "note boxes" thus mean that you played five notes. (3) If you make a mistake, proceed as follows to correct it: Press the [DELETE¥LAST¥NOTE] field if you only wish to correct the last note you entered. Press [¥RESET] to erase all notes you have played so far. (4) Press the [EXECUTE] field to save this information (i. e. the selected song file) in the internal memory or on memory card. [. . . ] MEXICO TEL: (55) 5668-6699 UNITED KINGDOM Roland (U. K. ) Ltd. Atlantic Close, Swansea Enterprise Park, SWANSEA SA7 9FJ, UNITED KINGDOM TEL: (01792) 702701 GERMANY Roland Elektronische Musikinstrumente HmbH. Oststrasse 96, 22844 Norderstedt, GERMANY TEL: (040) 52 60090 NICARAGUA Bansbach Instrumentos Musicales Nicaragua Altamira D'Este Calle Principal de la Farmacia 5ta. Avenida 1 Cuadra al Lago. #503 Managua, Nicaragua TEL: (505)277-2557 BARBADOS A&B Music Supplies LTD 12 Webster Industrial Park Wildey, St. Michael, Barbados TEL: (246)430-1100 GREECE STOLLAS S. A. Music Sound Light 155, New National Road Patras 26442, GREECE TEL: 2610 435400 MIDDLE EAST BAHRAIN Moon Stores No. 16, Bab Al Bahrain Avenue, P. O. Box 247, Manama 304, State of BAHRAIN TEL: 17 211 005 NORTH AMERICA CANADA Roland Canada Music Ltd. [. . . ]