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Listening to songs, Song] button functions, The song select screen is displayed (p. 25) – Roland RG-3 User Manual

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Chapter 1. Playing Back Songs

Listening to Songs

The RG-3 features a variety of internal songs. The internal songs are
categorized into “Jazz” and “Classical” genres.

Try giving these songs a listen.

You can also play back the following kinds of songs (data).

SMF music files

(when a USB memory, CD drive, or floppy disk drive is connected)

Audio Files (when a USB memory or CD drive is connected)

Audio CDs (when a CD drive is connected)

[Song] Button Functions

Each press of the [Song] button selects the next available song genre.

fig.01-010

Jazz

Classical

Favorites

This appears when songs are contained in the “Favorites.”

CD

This appears when you have a CD drive connected and a CD is in the drive.

Floppy Disk

This appears when you have a floppy disk drive connected and a floppy disk is
in the drive.

Ext Memory

(songs in the USB memory connected to the Ext Memory port)

This appears when you have a USB memory connected.

About Audio Files

Audio files in the following
format can be played back

:

•“.WAV” extension

•16-bit linear

•Sampling rate of “44.1 kHz”

•Stereo

You cannot use the
following functions in
playing back audio files.

Displaying notations (p. 48)

Copying “Favorites” (p. 40)

Changing tempos (p. 36)

Track Mute (p. 95)

Recording (p. 75)

* Saving or performing other

procedures during playback of
audio files may cause the song
to stop while it is playing.

What are the “Favorites?”

This is the area of memory where you can save copies of performances recorded with the RG-3, songs saved on
CD-ROMs, songs stored in the USB memory connected to the RG-3’s Ext Memory port, and other songs.

After copying songs to the “Favorites,” you can then select the copied songs simply by pressing the [Song] button
and selecting “Favorites” as the song genre.

The RG-3 features a User Memory (the RG-3’s memory) area where the following types of data are stored.

• Content registered in the “Favorites”

Content set in User programs (Favorites performance settings) (p. 79)

To delete the content of the User Memory and restore the memory to the default factory settings, refer to
“Initializing the User Memory, USB Memory, and Floppy Disks” (p. 93).

You can select and listen to tone demos (p. 26) from the “Favorites” after initializing the User memory.

You can also delete these tone demos and overwrite them with other songs, which can then be saved.