Roland E-80 User Manual

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Features

E-80 Music Workstation

Superfast Recorder and comprehensive 16-track
sequencer

The E-80 provides two approaches for recording new
song material: a Recorder function with a straightfor-
ward REC-START-STOP approach and a fully-featured
16-track sequencer with track-based and detailed
microscope editing functions.

Like many other functions on the E-80, the Recorder
interacts with other sections: you can link a song to
each User Program, you can cause any Standard MIDI
File to be transposed automatically to a range that
allows you to sing with ease, the chords of the songs
you play back are recognized automatically and dis-
played, etc.

Finder functions for songs, Music Styles and User
Programs

Another highlight of the E-80 is the fact that you can
work with an almost unlimited number of songs, Music
Styles and User Programs (in the internal memory, on
memory card or floppy disk). Though there are still fac-
tory Music Styles, you can also work with “CUSTOM”
links to accompaniments in the internal memory or on
memory card, and even select such “external” Styles on
the fly. The same high-speed access system is available
for Standard MIDI Files (songs) and User Programs.

Thanks to the clever Finder databases, the difference
between what’s internal and what resides in an “exter-
nal” memory has become almost imperceptible.

Play List function

Thanks to the E-80’s Play List function, you can pro-
gram set lists for your performances. The advantage of
such song chains is that you won’t have to look for the
desired songs on stage.

Furthermore, you can already prepare the next song
while the current one is still running (NEXT SONG func-
tion).

D Beam controller

The E-80 has the acclaimed D Beam Controller* for
intuitive song and Style playback control and additional
DJ-like effects via movements over an invisible beam of
infrared light. And, of course, the BENDER/MODULA-
TION lever is also there, as are sockets for optional foot-
switches and an expression pedal.

(* D Beam technology licensed from Interactive Light, Inc.)

…and so much more

Listing all of the E-80’s advantages and functions
would take another ten pages, while you must be dying
to put it through its paces. That is why we would like to
ask you to read this manual from cover to cover. You’ll
find that the E-80 is quite unlike any other instrument
you know.

Have fun!