Roland DR-3 - Manual (Page 61)

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Chapter 7 Creating Styles
Even though the DR-3 comes with a great variety
of styles, representing many genres, you can also
create your own original styles. Such original
styles are called “User styles.”
User styles have a “U” at the beginning of the
style number, for example “U001.” You can
create and store up to 100 User styles in the DR-3.
Procedure for Creating
Styles
Here are the steps you need to take to create a
new style:
fig.07-01
There are two ways to record the patterns in Step <3>.
Realtime Recording
With this method, the key pads are played in time
with a metronome count, with the pattern being
recorded just as it is performed. Even if there is a little
unevenness in the timing used in tapping the key
pads, the Quantize function allows you to record
with the timing corrected. (Refer to step 3 on p. 65)
Step Recording
With this method, you “record” by specifying the
timing (step), volume, etc., of each instrument
sound, one at a time. This allows patterns to be
recorded accurately, even those that are hard to
record using Realtime Recording.
You can also record patterns using both Realtime
and Step Recording.
After recording the basic pattern using Step
Recording, finish creating the Pattern by using
Realtime Recording to add sounds in a freer ad-
lib style.
Convenient Functions for Creating Styles
You can speed up the process of creating a new
style by first copying a Preset style, or the
patterns in a Preset style to a User style, and then
modifying that to create the new style.
• Copying and Deleting Styles (p. 71)
• Copying and Deleting Patterns (p. 72)
Creating Two-Measure Patterns from Four-Measure
Patterns
When you copy a four-measure pattern, and then, using
the procedure described in “Determining the Number
of Measures for Each Pattern” (p. 64), set the number of
measures to “2,” it results in a pattern in which only the
first two measures of the original pattern are played.
In this manner, you can use the setting described on p.
64 to create a pattern after copying a pattern that is
shorter than the one you start with.
Changing the Key of the Bass Part (Key Transpose)
After copying or recording a pattern, you can change
the key of its bass part.
<1> Select a Number for the Style
You Are Creating
<2> Make the Settings for the New Style
<3> Record the Patterns
(Realtime Recording/Step Recording)
<4> Check the Created Style
- Set the Tempo
- Set the Beat
- Set Up the Drum Kit
- Set VARIATION [MUTE]
- Make the TSC Settings
- Determine the Number of Measures for Each Pattern
(These settings can be changed after the patterns are
recorded.)
- Record the Drum Part
- Record the Bass Part
- Change Dynamics to the Sounds (Velocity Edit)
- Transpose the Bass Part
- Edit the Settings
- Name the Style