Notes on giving a performance, Locking the buttons, Enabling/disabling ambience – Roland SPD-S User Manual
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Chapter 1 Making a Performance/ Creating a Patch
Chapter 1
Locking the buttons
You can lock (disable) the buttons so that a performance cannot be 
interrupted if a button like [SAMPLE] is pressed by mistake while the 
performance is in progress. Keep pressing [FUNC] for a while to lock the 
buttons; “
lock
” will be displayed in the screen. Keep pressing [FUNC] for a
while again to unlock the buttons; “
unlock
” will be displayed.
Enabling/disabling ambience
To turn ambience
ON
, hold down [SHIFT] and press [EFFECTS], so that
“
Ambience ON
” appears in the display.
To turn ambience
OFF
, hold down [SHIFT] and press [EFFECTS], so that
“
Ambience OFF
” appears in the display.
Ambience cannot be individually enabled or disabled for different patches.
Enabling/disabling effects
To
enable
effects, press [EFFECTS] so it is lit.
To
disable
effects, press [EFFECTS] so it is not lighted.
Controlling effects
While hitting playing surfaces for a performance, turn the EFFECTS 
CONTROL knob, depress the expression pedal or control the strength of your 
strikes to make change to effects.
Stopping all sounds produced (ALL SOUND OFF)
Press [ALL SOUND OFF] to stop all sounds being produced.
For example, if Trigger (in WAVE SETUP in Wave Edit -> p. 46) is set to 
SHOT for a long wave, sound reproduction is unstoppable midstream. In this 
case, you can stop the sound by pressing [ALL SOUND OFF].
■
Notes on Giving a Performance
Number of waves that can be reproduced simultaneously
The SPD-S can reproduce a maximum of eight voices simultaneously. A wave 
for which Mode (in Sampling -> p. 58) is set to STEREO or Grade (in 
Sampling ->p. 58) is set to FINE has two voices. A wave in STEREO and in 
FINE grade has four voices.
If you try to reproduce more than eight voices, the wave of the pad that was 
hit earlier is stopped to give preference to reproducing the wave of the pad 
that was struck later. In this case, reproduction of a wave for which Type (p. 
45) is set to SINGLE is discontinued earlier than a PHRASE-type wave.
If you press a locked button, a 
“lock!” indication appears.
For details on ambience, see p. 
76.
For details on effects, see p. 92.
If you hold down [SHIFT] and 
press [EXIT], changes made to 
patch effects are cancelled.
Controlling effects are valid 
when [EFFECTS] is lit.
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