Roland G-70 User Manual

Roland Synthesizers

Table of contents

Document Outline

Features
Contents
Important notes
Panel descriptions
- Front panel
- Rear panel
Setting up and demo songs
- Connections
- Switching the G70 on/off
- Interactive demo of the G70
- The main page
Quick Start
- The general idea
- Playing to an automatic accompaniment
- Using the Keyboard parts
- Using the Harmonic Bars
- Working with the Music Assistant
- Playing back songs (Standard MIDI Files)
- Vocal Harmonist function
- Recording your music
About the Keyboard modes
- Arranger, Piano and Organ modes
- Split and Whole modes
Using the performance functions
- Pitch Bend and Modulation
- Transposition
- Octave
- Key Touch (velocity sensitivity)
- Master Tune
- Aftertouch
- ASSIGN SW buttons
- Using the D Beam Controller
- Using optional footswitches
- Scale Tuning
- Metronome
Additional Arranger/Style functions
- Playback functions (StyleControl)
- Selecting other Style divisions
- Melody Intelligence
- Using the Style Cover function
- One Touch
- More refined Arranger settings
- Tempo-related settings (Arranger Options)
- Working with ‘external’ Music Styles
- Style Finder: quickly locating Styles
Advanced Keyboard part functions
- Upper 3 Split
- Tuning Upper 2: Coarse Tune and Fine Tune
- Portamento for UP1 and UP2
- Lower Hold
- Tone Edit: editing Keyboard parts
Using the mixer functions & effects
- Mixing Keyboard parts
- Volume and status of the Style parts
- Editing the Keyboard effects processors
- Using the multi-effects processor (Multi-FX)
- Effects for songs and Styles
- Using the individual outputs and audio inputs
- Using the Mastering Tools
- Voice and Vocal Harmonist part mixing
Working with User Programs
- Saving your settings to a User Program
- Selecting User Programs
- Automatic functions for User Programs
- Editing User Program Finder information
- Music Assistant functions
Song and Style Makeup Tools
- Mixing Song or Style parts
- Using the Makeup Tools
- Saving your modified song or Style
Editing the Vocal Harmonist parts
- Singer settings
- Voice-FX settings
- Auto Pitch settings
- Vocoder settings
- Small settings
- Ensemble settings
More refined song functions
- Using the Fade-In/Out function
- Programming MARK & JUMP locations
- Working with the Song Finder
- Play List function
Editing Lyrics
- Adding Lyrics to a song
- Exporting Lyrics data as text file
Using the 16-track sequencer
- About the sequencer’s main page
- General considerations
- Example 1: Recording a song from scratch
- Example 2: Adding tracks
- Editing 16-track songs
- Editing song data using Microscope Edit
Programming Styles (Style Composer)
- Concept
- Recording User Styles from scratch
- Auditioning your Style and adding more tracks
- Copying existing Styles
- Editing on the fly by recording
- Style Track Edit functions
- Editing individual Style events (Style Micro Edit)
Disk/Media functions
- The how-to’s
- Loading data
- Saving data
- Rename functions
- Delete
- Copy
- Format
Archiving data using a computer (USB)
MIDI
- The how-to’s
- Editing MIDI parameters
- MIDI Sets
Miscellaneous
- Using VLINK
- General settings
Specifications
Appendix
- Installing a wave expansion board
- Accessing the ‘Patches’ of SRX- series expansion boards via MIDI
- MFX and IFX types and parameters
MIDI Implementation Chart
Chord Intelligence
Index