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Using the d beam controller – Roland PAINO DISCOVER5 User Manual

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Owner’s Manual

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After specifying the family by pressing one of
the eight big fields, press the [Set] field. The dis-
play changes to:

Use the arrow fields to change the OCTAVE of
the selected Drum Set.

This is only necessary if you do not have access
to the desired drum/percussion sounds. Some
Drum Sets indeed provide up to 128 such
sounds, while the keyboard only has 61 keys.

OCTAVE therefore doesn’t change the pitch of
the sounds: it assigns other sounds to the keys.
Here’s an example:

Drum Set selection via the TONE/USER PRO-
GRAM buttons works exactly like Tone selec-
tion. But also in that case, there is no need to
select the group: there are no Drum Set groups.

Using the D Beam Controller

The D Beam Controller allows you to control various aspects of your performance, or to add something to the
music, by moving your hand, head, etc., in the air. You only need to make sure that you do so over the two “eyes”
and within a 40cm (±16”) range. Your movements are translated into musical expression.

(1) Press the D BEAM CONTROLLER [ON/OFF] but-

ton (it must light).

Let’s first try out the DJ GEAR functions.

(2) Press the [ASSIGN] button (next to the

[ON÷OFF] button) until the DJ GEAR indicator
lights.

The display changes to:

(3) Start playback of a song (page 16).

(4) Move your hand towards and away from the

D Beam’s “eyes”.

What you hear now is the “VinylRPM” effect.
Now let’s do some scratching…

(5) Press the [SCRATCH] field.

(6) Again move your hand towards and away

from the D Beam.
Now you should hear a scratch sound.

Try out some other effects by pressing the
[Sound≈FX] and [Instruments] fields and selecting
one of the available options.

(You can also press the [ASSIGN] button to
select D Beam modes.)

Note: See p. 41 for full details about the D Beam Con-
troller.

(7) Press the [EXIT] button to return to the main

page.

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OCTAVE= 0

OCTAVE= –1