Roland E-500 Owner's Manual

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Owner's manual (92 pages)

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Important Safety Instructions
Main Features
Contents
Floppy Disk Drive
Maintenance & Placement
Repairs and Data Backup
Additional Precautions & Power Supply
Handling Floppy Disk
Panel Descriptions
Front Panel
Rear Panel
Before Using the E-500
Setting up the Music Rest
Using Headphones
Connecting the Power Cord & Turning the Instrument on and off
Connecting External Amplifiers and Other Devices
Sending Audio to External Equipment
Basic Operation and Display
Typographic Conventions Used in this Owner's Manual
The Basic/Home Screen
Navigating through the Display Pages
Overview of the E-500
Introduction of the E-500'S Main Functions-[DEMO] Button
Tone and Style Demo - Sound/Style
Choosing the Display Language
Using-Game
Performance Functions
One Touch Program: Selecting the "Instrument Type"
Piano Music-One Touch Program [PIANO]
Adjusting the Piano Tone
Using the Metronome
Using Footswitches
Organ Music-One Touch Program [ORGAN]
Accompaniment-One Touch Program [ARRANGER]
Selecting an Organ Type
Adjusting the Rotary Effect
Simple Explanation of How to Use the Arranger
Example: "When the Saints Go Marching In"
Playing Back Songs on Disk
Selecting and Playing Back Songs
Listening to All Songs One after Another
Rewinding and Fast Forwarding
Using a Microphone
Caution When Using a Microphone
Pitch Bend, Modulation, and Transpose
Tones and Related Functions
Selecting Tones
Selecting "Normal" Tones
Selecting Expansion Tones
Drum Sounds and Sound Effects-[DRUM/SFX]
Toggling between Drum Sounds and Sound Effects
Selecting Drum Set Types
Adding Effects to Tones
Reverberation-[REVERB] Slider
Adding Other Effects-DSP Effect
Chorus Effect
Octave Shift: Changing the Pitch by Octaves
Keyboard Modes
Whole: One Tone for the Entire Keyboard
Split: Different Tones in the Left and Right Hand
Selecting Tones for the Upper and Lower Parts
Layer: Two Tones
Playing with Accompaniment (Arranger)
What Is Arranger?
Piano Style Arranger-Chord Recognition on the Entire Keyboard
Settings
Selecting Music Styles
Using Style Disks (User Styles)
Starting and Stopping Styles
Starting a Music Style
Starting Automatically (Sync Start)
Starting Manually
Stopping a Music Style
Style Tempo
Accompaniment and Melody Volume Balance
Adjusting the Volume of each Part-Part Volume
Global Balance
Volume of the Rhythm, Bass, Accomp, and Chord/Bass Tones
Volume of the Drums, SFX, Lower, Upper, or Layer Tone
Switching Style Arrangements (Divisions)
Basic/Advanced: Level
Original/Variation: Accompaniment Pattern
Fill-Ins (Transitions between Original and Variation)
Easy Fingering-Chord Intelligence
Melody Intelligence
Recording and Playback
Normal Recording
Let's Record Something
What Is a Track?
Cautions to Take after Recording
Recording Minus-One Performances
Correcting Minor Mistakes
Playing Back a Composer Song
Track Mute: Muting Specific Tracks
Playing Back Songs Without Tempo Changes
Erasing the Composer Song
Saving a Song to Disk
Saving Songs in SMF Format (as SMF)
Functions of the Composer Menu
16-Track Sequencer
Muting or Playing Selected Tracks
Tracks Vs. MIDI Channels
Chord Sequencer
Recording Mode
Formatting Disks
Stopping a Recording (Rec Stop)
Style Composer
Muting Parts of a Division
Editing Your User Style
Style Converter
Saving User Styles
Song Edit
Steps for Editing
Setup: Tempo and Volume
Quantize: Timing Corrections
Erase: Removing Data from a Track or Song
Copy(Ing) Measures
Delete: Removing Measures
Transpose: Changing the Key
Insert: Adding Blank Measures
Track Exchange/Track Copy: Swapping and Copying Tracks
Function Menu
Key Touch (Velocity Sensitivity) & Metronome Volume and Beat
Operating Procedure for the Function Menu
Piano Screen Functions
Tuning
Marker Function: Repeatedly Playing Back the same Section
Temperament
Organ Screen Functions
Using the Arranger
Lower Tone On/Off and Split Point
Basic Screen Functions
Auto: Changing the Arranger Defaults
Chord Tone Setting
User Programs, Pad Buttons, Pedals
User Program: Registering Panel Setting
Loading a User Program & Saving User Programs to Disk
Naming (or Renaming) a User Program
Loading a User Program Set from Disk
Pad Buttons: Additional or Frequently Used Functions
Pedal (Footswitch) Functions
Utility Menu
Operating Procedure
Utility Functions
Master Tune & Key Touch/Key Transpose
Metronome Volume and Beat
Selecting a Different Reverb And/Or Chorus Effect
Lyric: Switching off the Display of Lyrics
LCD Contrast
Pitch Bend Range
MIDI: TX MIDI Ch./Local Control
Program Change (and Bank Select)
User Program Arranger Update
Memory Backup
Factory Preset (Initialization)
Link to 16TRK Sequencer
Connecting MIDI Instruments
Troubleshooting
Error Messages
DSP Effects
Demo Songs
Profiles of the Composers
Specifications
Tones, Drum Sets, Music Styles
Normal Tones
Expansion Tones
Internal Music Styles & Disk Styles
Drum Sets
Chord Intelligence
MIDI Implementation Chart
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