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Roland G-600 Owner's Manual (229 pages)

Arranger workstation

Brand: Roland | Category: Electronic Keyboard | Size: 13.24 MB

Important Safety Instructions
2
Main Features of Your G-600
4
Unpacking Your G-600
5
Useful Options
6
Compatibility with Other Instruments/Formats
6
Precautions
7
Contents
9
Reference Guide
11
Setting up
14
Connections
14
Demo Songs
14
Panel Descriptions
16
Front Panel
16
Rear Panel
19
User Interface
21
Exit
21
Master Page
21
Navigating through the Display Pages
23
Function Keys and [SHIFT] Button
23
Other Buttons
24
Reversed/Positive Value Display
24
Realtime Display
26
Realtime Parts
27
What Are Parts?
27
Selecting Realtime Parts for Playing
28
Layering and Selecting Upper2
28
Selecting the Lower and M.bass Parts
28
Split and Split Point
29
Setting the Split Point on the Keyboard
29
Upper2 Split
29
Setting the Split Points with the Display Function
30
Selecting the Manual Drums Part
31
Keyboard Mode Hold
31
Roll
31
Selecting Tones for the Realtime Parts
32
Selecting Tones Using the TONE Buttons
32
Tone Selection for Other Parts
33
Selecting Drum Sets for the M.drums Part
34
Selecting Tones Using the Up/Down Buttons
34
Display Symbols
34
Who Selects the Tones? - Tone Change
35
General Notes
36
Realtime Performance Functions
37
Pitch Bend and Modulation
37
Transpose and Octave Up/Down
37
Octave Up/Down
38
Sustain Pedal (Hold)
39
Expression Pedal
39
Master Tune
39
Playing with Accompaniment - Arranger
40
Arranger and Music Styles
40
Arranger Parts
41
Selecting the Chord Recognition Area
42
Selecting the Arranger Chord Mode
43
Standard
43
Piano Style
43
Bass Inversion and Arr Hold
44
Intelligent
44
Music Style Functions
45
Starting a Music Style
45
Stopping a Music Style
45
Selecting Another Style Division
45
Basic and Advanced
46
Major, Minor, Seventh
46
Fills: to Original and to Variation
46
Fill in Half Bar
47
Intro and Ending
47
Realtime Changes of the Drum Accompaniment
48
Other Useful Style Playback Functions
49
One Touch
49
Melody Intelligence
49
Fade out
49
Selecting Music Styles
50
Dynamic Arranger
50
Using External (User) Styles
51
Loading User Styles
51
Selecting User Styles
52
Style Tempo
53
Tempo Buttons and Indicators
53
Tap Tempo
53
Customizing Music Styles
54
Assigning Other Tones to the Arranger Parts
54
Tone Change
54
Working with User Style Sets
55
Compiling and Saving Your Own Style Sets
55
Saving a User Style Set
56
Loading User Style Sets
57
Registrations - Performance Memories
58
Writing Your Settings to a Performance Memory
58
Memory Protect
59
Performance Name
59
Writing a Performance Memory
60
Selecting a Performance Memory
61
Selecting 00 Freepanl
61
Resume
61
Selecting a Performance Memory (Group, Bank, Number)
62
Automated User Style Access
62
Selecting a Performance Memory Using the Down/Up Buttons
63
Selectively Loading Performance Memory Settings (Performance Memory Hold)
63
Chord Sequencer
65
Recording the Accompaniment of an Entire Song
65
Two Chord Sequencer Modes
65
NTA (Note to Arranger)
65
Style Change
66
"Realtime" Chord Sequencing
67
Playing Back a Chord Sequence
67
Recorder (GM/GS Mode)
68
How to Record a Song
68
Formatting a Disk
68
Before Recording
69
You're on
69
Song Playback
70
All Song Playback
71
Playback of a Specific Song on Disk
71
Useful Recorder Playback Functions
72
Lyrics Function
72
Fast Forward, Rewind, and Reset
72
Live Performance with Standard MIDI File Backing (Minus One)
73
Markers and Playback Loops
73
Changing the Song Tempo
74
Soloing and Muting Parts on Disk
74
Overriding Song Settings
75
Muting Song Parts (Status)
75
Song Part Volume
75
Song Volume
76
Tone Change: Old and New
76
Easy Editing
77
Part Balance (Volume)
77
Grouped and Bus Faders
77
Section Balance
79
Mixer Mode: Modifying the Volume of the Bus Members
79
Muting Parts
80
Panpot (Stereo Position)
80
Effects and Equalizer
81
Applying Reverb, Chorus or Delay to a Part
81
Effect Settings
82
Equalizer
83
Source: Your Settings or those of the Arranger/Song?
84
Realtime (Rtime) Source
84
Arranger (Arrng) Source
85
Effect Source
85
Part Editing
86
Editing the Part Parameters
86
Modulation (Vibrato)
86
Timbre (Filter)
87
Another Source Switch: Tone Edit
88
Envelope
88
Upper2 Settings
89
Tuning Upper2: Coarse and Fine
89
Upper2 Tune Source
90
Intelligent Melodies Played by Upper2
91
Advanced Features
92
Settings Relating to the Arranger
92
Musical Style Playback: Wrap
93
Setting Relating to the Realtime Parts
94
Dynamic Arranger: Velocity Sensitivity of the Arranger Parts
94
Velocity Sensitivity and Velocity Switching
94
Velocity Switching
95
Roll Resolution for the M.drums Part
96
Monophonic/Polyphonic, with or Without Portamento
96
Pitch Bender Range
97
Expression Pedal: Blending Effects or Just Plain Volume
98
Playing in Other Scales: Keyboard Scale
98
Source Switches
99
Song Sets
100
Compiling a Song Set
100
Playing Back a Song Set
101
Programming User Styles
102
Concept
102
Patterns
102
Tracks
102
Looped Vs One-Shot
103
Looped Divisions
103
One-Shot Divisions
104
Recording User Style from Scratch
105
Selecting the User Style Mode
105
Selecting the Track, the Mode, the Type and the Division
105
Working with Clones
106
Record Mode
107
Specifying the Key
107
Quantize
107
Tone Selection
108
Time Signature
108
Length: Specifying the Pattern Length
109
Tempo
110
Recording
110
Playback, and then Keep or Redo?
110
Saving Your Style to Disk
111
Programming Other Parts and Divisions
111
Muting Parts While Recording Others (Status)
112
Remarks
112
Metronome
112
Empty Tracks
112
Copying Existing Styles
113
Playback in Arranger Mode
113
Copying Entire Style Divisions Using Load
113
Copying Individual User Style Tracks
114
Editing User Styles
116
Editing on the Fly by Recording
116
Adding Notes in Realtime
116
Adding Controller Data in Realtime
116
Programming User Styles Via MIDI
118
Setting the Preset Tempo
118
Data that Can be Recorded
118
Connection and Synchronization
119
Preparation of Your Sequence
119
Preparation on the G-600
119
MIDI Channels
119
Recording Using External Controllers
120
Where to Go from here - Editing User Styles
121
User Style Edit Mode
121
Track Erase
122
Track Delete
122
Track Insert
122
Track Transpose
122
Editing in Micro Mode
123
Track Shift
123
Example: Recording in Step Time
124
Specifying the Pattern Length
124
Step Time Record
124
Deleting a User Style from a User Style Memory
126
MIDI
127
MIDI in General
127
MIDI Connectors
127
MIDI Data
127
MIDI Connections
128
MIDI on Your G-600
128
MIDI Channels & RX Parts
128
Receiving MIDI Data from External Instruments
128
Receiving MIDI Data
129
Sending MIDI Data to External Instruments or Computers
129
Receive Channels (RX)
129
NTA Channel
129
Basic Channel
130
Style Select Channel
130
Transmit (TX) Channels and Transmit Switches
131
Other MIDI Settings
131
Switching off MIDI Reception/Transmission
131
MIDI Receive/Transmit Filters
131
Shift and TX Octave
132
Zones (Low/High Limits)
132
Yet Other MIDI Settings
133
Local Function
133
Rx Velo, TX Velo
133
MIDI Synchronization
134
Soft Thru
134
MIDI Sets
135
Writing a MIDI Set
135
Selecting a MIDI Set
135
Saving MIDI Sets to Disk
135
Loading a MIDI Set from Disk
136
Housekeeping
137
General Remarks
137
Disk Copy (Backups)
137
Renaming Files on Disk
138
Deleting Files on Disk
139
Initializing Your G-600 (Load Factory Setup)
139
Compatibility
140
Creating GM/GS-Compatible Standard MIDI Files
140
User Styles that Can be Loaded
140
G-600 Style Format
140
Before You Start
142
GM/GS Mode Master Page
143
Part Select Buttons
143
Volume Pages and Volume Mode
144
Volume Control (Fader Aassignments)
144
Global Volume
144
Volume Pages in Song Mode
144
Tone Pages and Tone Mode
145
Tone Edit (Part Parameters)
145
Tone Edit (Source Switch)
146
Mixer Mode
147
Mixer/Rtime and Mixer/Arrng Pages
147
Mixer/Song Page
148
Mixer/Effect Pages
148
Reverb Page
148
Reverb Parameters
149
Macro
149
Chorus Page
150
Chorus Parameters
150
Delay Page
151
Delay Parameters
151
Equalizer Page
151
Source Pages
152
Parameter Mode
153
Parameter/Glbal/1 Page
153
Memory Locked/Unlocked
153
Cursor Character (Performance Memory Parameter)
153
Parameter/Global/2 Page
154
Split (C3-C6)
154
Roll (Resolution)
154
Param/Glbal/3 Page
154
Param/Glbal/4 Page
155
Song Set Play
155
Chord Family Assign
155
Param/Tune/1 Page
156
Transpose Mode
156
Param/Tune/2 Page
156
Param\Tune\3 Page
157
Kbd Scale
157
Param\Cntrl\1 Page
158
Param\Cntrl\2 Page
158
Sensitivity
158
Min and Max (1-127)
158
Param\Cntrl\3 Page
159
Melody Intell Voices
159
Pitch Bender
159
Param\Cntrl\4 Page: Expression Pedal
160
Source\Tune Page
160
Source\Cntrl Page
161
User Style Mode
162
Usrstl\Rec\1 Pages
162
Track
162
User Style Memory and Name
162
Usrstl\Rec\2 Page
163
Style Pattern Selection
163
Usrstl\Rec\3 Page
164
Key
164
(Metron) Mode
164
(Quantize) Value
164
Usrstl\Rec\4 Page
165
REC\PLAY Switches
165
Panpot
165
Tone/Drum Set
165
Usrstl\Rec\5 Page
166
Cloning and Edit Functions and Possible Warnings (Shared)
166
Length Pages
167
Track (1ADR-8AC6, All)
167
Tsign Page (Time Signature)
168
Cpt
168
Division (Basc/Adv, Basic, Advanced; Or, Var)
168
Track Copy
169
User Stl\Copy\To 1 Page
170
User Stl\Copy\To 2 Page
170
Edit\Erase\1 Page
171
Edit\Erase\2 Page
172
Edit\Erase\3 Page
172
Edit\Dlete\1 Page
173
Edit\Dlete\2 Page
173
Edit\Insrt\1 Page
173
Edit\Insrt\2 Page
174
Edit\Trnsp\1 Page
174
Edit\Transp\2 Page
175
Edit\Transp\3 Page
175
Edit\Velo\1 Page
176
Edit\Velo\2 Page
176
Edit\Velo\3 Page
177
Edit\Quant\1 Page
177
Edit\Quant\2 Page
178
Edit\Gatet\1 Page
178
Edit\Gatet\2 Page
178
Edit\Shift\1 Page
179
Edit\Shift\2 Page
179
User Style Microscope Mode
180
Track Microscope Edit
180
Style Name
184
User Style Delete
184
MIDI Mode
185
SMF, General MIDI, and General Standard
185
MIDI Messages Used by the G-600
185
Bank Select & Program Change
186
Control Change Messages
186
MIDI/Rtime RX, MIDI/Arrng RX, and MIDI/Song RX Pages
189
MIDI/Rtime TX and MIDI/Arrng TX Pages
191
MIDI/NTA Page
191
Basic Channel RX and TX Pages
192
Style Channel RX and TX Pages
193
MIDI Sync RX/TX
194
Rxvelo, Txvelo, On/Off Switches
194
Partswtc
194
Disk Mode
197
Disk Load (Loading Data from Disk)
197
Load User Style/Copy ROM Style
197
Load Style Set
197
Load Performance Set
198
Load MIDI Set
198
Load Chord Sequence
198
Disk Save (Saving Data to Disk)
199
Save User Style
199
Save Performance Memory Set
199
Save MIDI Set
199
Rename
200
Save Chord Sequence
200
Rename User Style
200
Style Name Vs. File Name
200
Rename Music Style Set
201
Rename Performance Set, MIDI Set, Chord Sequence
201
Rename Song
201
Delete
202
Style Set
202
Song Set
203
Copy Functions
203
Disk Copy
204
Disk Format
205
Display Messages
206
Messages Relating to the Recorder or Disk Functions
206
Messages Relating to the User Style Function
208
General Messages
208
Music Style Chart
209
MIDI Implementation Charts
210
Tone Lists
212
G-600 Tone Map (Banks a & B)
212
SC-55 Tone Map (Banks C & D)
214
SC-55 Map (CM-64 Tones)
215
GM Tones
216
Specifications
218
Index
219

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