Roland GW-8 ReleaseNote 2 User Manual

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Typically, you’ll want to set all of the style tracks in a style to the
same key.

Count In sets the number of beats, if any, you’ll hear when you start

recording your style track. You can set it to

OFF—

•

for no count-in.

1MEAS—

•

for a four-beat count-in.

2MEAS—

•

for an eight-beat count-in.

WAIT NOTE—

•

so recording begins as soon as you play a note.

The GW-8 can automatically transpose your notes downward or

upward in octaves when the style is played. Set the Octave parameter
to the desired amount of transposition—if you don’t want the track
transposed, set the parameter to 0.
The GW-8 can automatically correct any timing errors you make as

you record with its Input Quantize feature. If you’d like to use it, select
a beat value to which your notes will be moved as you record.
Set Length to the number of measures you want the style track to be,

or set it to Off if you’d like your playing to determine its length.

Length sets the number of measures a style track plays before it
loops back to the start. While normally all style tracks have the same
length, this parameter allows you to play a short repeating phrase—for
example a drum pattern—over and over beneath other, longer tracks as
what’s often called a “nested loop.”

Now you’re ready to record. What you hear at the next step depends
on how you’ve set Count In. If you’ve set it to

OFF—

•

recording will start immediately.

1MEAS or 2MEAS—

•

your count-in beats will play, and then

recording will begin.
WAIT NOTE—

•

the GW-8 will wait for you to play, and

when you do, recording will begin.

Press the START/STOP button to begin recording.

If you’ve set Length to

Off—

•

press START/STOP to halt recording when you’re done

playing.
something other than Off—

•

recording stops at the time you’ve

selected.

To hear your recording, press the START/STOP button.

While you’re on the STYLE COMPOSER screen, you can audition any of
your style’s divisions by selecting them and hitting START/STOP.

To listen to your new style from the Main screen, turn on SYNC START
and play a lower-part key to let the GW-8 know the chord you want to
use for playback.

To record additional style tracks in realtime, press the SONG REC

button and repeat Steps 1-13 above.

Setting Length to a specific number of measures allows you to “loop-
record” a style track. When you first record the style track, it stops
at the location you’ve set, as described above. However, if you press
SONG REC again, set Rec Mode to Mix, and then press START/STOP,
you’ll be able to add more material to the track as it plays over and
over again, until you press START/STOP once more to end recording.

Once you’ve recorded all the divisions for a chord type, you can finish
up a new style quickly using the new EZ Convert feature, described
on Page 13.