Roland G-70 Addendum

this document need to be supplemented with the information in the Version 1.x owner’s manual. Playing realistic guitar parts (Guitar mode) Your G-70 provides a Guitar mode that allows you to play extremely realistic guitar parts via the keyboard. As you will see, this mode relies on a special approach, which is nevertheless very musical and surprisingly log- ical once you have come to grips with the underlying principle. When you activate the Guitar mode, the UP1 part acts as main guitar, while the UP2 part is used as additional guitar that doubles the notes of the main guitar part. This means that, while the Guitar mode is active, UP1 and UP2 cannot be used for other melodic purposes. Though, with a little practice, you can also use it in realtime, the Guitar mode will prove invaluable for song and Style recording. (1) Simultaneously press the EASY SETTING [ARR] and [PIANO] buttons. Note: You can also select this page by pressing [MENU] button → [GUITAR¥MODE]. In that case, you may need to switch the Guitar mode on using the [Off/On] switch icon (see below). The indicators of these two buttons light and the dis- play changes to: The [Off÷On] switch icon allows you switch the Guitar mode on or off. If you selected this page by pressing EASY SETTING [ARR] + [PIANO], it is already set to on. Playing realistic guitar parts (Guitar mode). . . . . . . . . . . .3 First steps. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Additional ARPEGGIO functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Leaving the G-70’s Guitar mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Selecting guitar sounds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 About the chord indications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Using the available STRUMM techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Playing question and answer phrases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Guitar Mode Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Style Converter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 Using the Style Converter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Auditioning the tracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Recording Harmonist and Guitar parts (16-track Sequencer). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11 Preparations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Melody Intelligence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12 Linking MELODY INTELL type selection to the Styles (Style Melody Intell Link) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Using the Style Cover function. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14 Freeze Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Volume and status of the Style parts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14 Editing song data using Microscope Edit. . . . . . . . . . . . .14 Song and Style Makeup Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15 Before saving your settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Recording Styles from scratch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16 Getting ready for the first track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Style Track Edit functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16 Editing individual Style events (Style Micro Edit). . . . . .16 General notes about STYLE MICRO EDIT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Editing events. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Other edit operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Disk/Media functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17 Copying User Program sets to floppy disk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Delete. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 MIDI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18 MIDI System parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18 Measure indication in the display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Break Mute function for the ASSIGN SW buttons. . . . . . . . 18 Scale Tuning for Style parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Song/Arranger Start Priority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Accessing the ‘Patches’ of SRX-series expansion boards via MIDI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 ARR ORGAN PIANO

4 r G-70 Music Workstation If you now return to the main page by pressing the [EXIT] button, the display changes: The UPPER1 field below “GUITAR MODE” shows the name of the currently selected guitar sound. You cannot select other guitar sound for UPPER 1 simply by pressing this field: press the “GUITAR MODE” field to jump to the page shown above, then change the settings you don’t like. (UPPER2’s guitar sound is assigned automatically and can never be changed.) Pressing the A field on the main page takes you to the GUITAR MODE page. Note that this field can either contain an electric guitar or an acoustic one to indicate the kind of instrument you selected. This field duplicates the function of the EASY SET- TING [ARR] + [PIANO] buttons. (See also below.) First steps (2) Press the [ELECTRIC] or [ACOUSTIC] switch icon to specify whether you need an electric or an acoustic guitar. Your choice is reflected by the big guitar picture in the upper right part of the display. (3) Play a chord in the keyboard area called “CHORD” in the display. (You can release those keys right away if you like.) Note: The keys in the “CHORD” area (unlike the ones of the “ARPEGGIO” and “STRUMM” areas, see below) also trigger other Keyboard parts you may have switched on. Depending on the Keyboard parts you switch on, those keys may play the MBS, LW2, LW1 (left half) and the UP3 part (right side, in the Upper3 Split area). Even the Arranger’s chord recognition remains active. The notes you play in the “CHORD” area are not played by the G-70’s Guitar section. They only specify what you will hear when you… (4) Press the first “C” key to the right of the “CHORD” area. This sounds the note a guitarist would play on the low E string. The key you are pressing now belongs to the “ARPEGGIO” section. (5) Now press the “D” to the right of the “C” you used above. This sounds the note a guitarist would play on the A string. (6) Continue with the “E”, “F”, “G” and “A” keys to sound the remaining guitar notes for the chord you specified. Let us summarize all this: the six keys you have pressed so far are assigned to the virtual guitar strings. This allows you to play guitar arpeggios that use the chord information you supplied in the “CHORD” area. The exact phrasing of your arpeggios depends on the order in which you press the keys. If you start pressing these “string” keys right after switching on the G-70 (and before specifying a chord), the Guitar mode sounds the basic pitches of the six strings (i.e. E-A-D-G-B-E). As soon as you play a chord in the “CHORD” area, however, the G-70 memorizes and uses it until you play a different chord. (7) Play a different chord in the “CHORD” area and again use the “string” keys (in the “ARPEGGIO” area) to sound the constituent notes. Additional ARPEGGIO functions The keys indicated in the previous illustration corre- spond to the natural behavior of a guitar. But there are other things you can do in the “ARPEGGIO” area (most of these functions involve the black keys of the “ARPEGGIO” area): (1) Play a chord in the keyboard area called “CHORD” in the display. (2) Press one of the following keys to use the “effect” assigned to it: A Play chords here Low E string A string D string G string B string High E string Lowest chord note Lowest chord note Strum down slow (6 strings) Strum down slow (4 strings) Fifth of the chord Root of the chord

G-70 Music Workstation r 5 ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH G Lowest chord note (B3 & F#4)—These keys allow you to sound the lowest note of the chords you play in the “CHORD” area. Here’s an example: if you play a “C” chord using the C-E-G keys, this function sounds a C. If you play that same chord using G-C-E, this function sounds a G. G Strum down slow (6 strings) (C#4)—This key causes all six strings to sound more or less at the same time. Later on, you will discover there is also a “fast” variety where all strings are hit almost simultaneously. “Down”, by the way, means that the simulated plectrum (or thumb/fin- ger) moves from the upper part of the guitar (the low E string) towards the floor. G Strum down slow (4 strings) (Eb4)—This is similar to the above, except that only four notes are played. G Fifth of the chord (Ab4)—This key plays the fifth of the last chord you specified (the G of a “C” chord, for exam- ple). Consider combining it with the next function for popular guitar licks based on the alternation between the root and the fifth. (You can also play them together, of course.) G Root of the chord (Bb4)—Unlike the B3 or the F#4, this key always sounds the root note of the last chord you specified, i.e. a C for a “C” chord, an E for an “E” chord, etc. Leaving the G-70’s Guitar mode To leave the Guitar mode, press any EASY SETTING ([ARR], [ORGAN] or [PIANO]) or KBD MODE button ([SPLIT] or [WHOLE]), or the [Off÷On] switch icon on the GUITAR MODE page (to select “Off”). Alternatively, you can select a User Program that doesn’t use the Guitar mode. Selecting guitar sounds Now that you know how to use some of the Guitar functions, let’s try these techniques with different sounds. Additional playing techniques are discussed under “Using the available STRUMM techniques” on p. 5. (1) Simultaneously press the EASY SETTING [ARR] and [PIANO] buttons. Note: You can also select this page by pressing [MENU] button → [GUITAR¥MODE]. In that case, you may need to switch the Guitar mode on using the [Off/On] switch icon (see below). The indicators of these two buttons light and the dis- play changes to: The [Off÷On] switch icon allows you switch the Guitar mode on or off. If you selected this page by pressing EASY SETTING [ARR] + [PIANO], it is already set to on. (2) Press the [ELECTRIC] or [ACOUSTIC] switch icon to specify whether you need an electric or an acoustic guitar. This is an important choice to make, because it deter- mines which guitar sounds can be selected (electric or acoustic ones). (3) Select the desired sound (see the upper left corner) with the [DATA÷ENTRY] dial or the [DEC]/[INC] but- tons. The possibilities are: About the chord indications The GUITAR MODE page contains a “window” that shows you how the chords you play on the keyboard are transformed into guitar chords. The small numbers refer to the lowest fret being used. An “x” means that the string in question doesn’t sound (guitarists sometimes use only four or three strings for their chords). And finally: the strings are shown from high E (top) to low E (bottom) – that’s how guitar tablatures are usually printed. The guitar neck has therefore been turned upside down. Using the available STRUMM techniques While the “ARPEGGIO” area essentially provides func- tions that allow you to “compose” your own guitar parts in realtime, the “STRUMM” area contains a series of presets for various strumming techniques. “Strum- ming”, as you may know, means that all guitar strings are played more or less simultaneously using a plec- trum or one’s fingers. All functions discussed below use the chords you spec- ify in the “CHORD” area (see above). Here are the keys that make up the “STRUMM” section: The keys to the right of the “STRUMM” area can be used to play the UP3 part. This allows you to alternate between a guitar part and another instrument. (The LW1, LW2, and MBS parts can always be played via the “CHORD” area. The only thing you need to do is to switch them on.) Note: As stated earlier, UP1 and UP2 are not available in Guitar mode, because they are used as guitar parts. ELECTRIC 01: Jazz Man 02: Open Hard 03: O.H. DstFX 04: Open Hard2 05: O.H.2 OvdFX 06: V Jazz Gtr 07: V Cln Half 08: V Dist. 3 09: V Warm Drv 10: V Power 3 11 Dist Guitar ACOUSTIC 01: V Nylon 02: V Steel 2 03: V Steel 3 04: V Steel 4 05: V Steel 5 06: V 2 Guitars 07: V Nyl+Steel 08: V Nyl+Stee2 Play chords here Select strumming patterns here C5 F6

6 r G-70 Music Workstation Note: The G-70’s Arranger can also be used and controlled while Guitar mode is active, so that the chords you play with your left hand are used both by the G-70’s Arranger and its Guitar mode functionality. (1) Select the required guitar type (ELECTRIC or ACOUSTIC) and the desired sound. See “Selecting guitar sounds”. (2) Play a chord in the keyboard area called “CHORD” in the display. (3) Press one of the following keys to specify how your virtual guitar should be played. The lowest “STRUMM” key is called “C5”, the black key next to it “C#5”, etc. Some of the keys mentioned below produce two effects: one when you press (“e”) them, another when you release (“a”) them. Entries without those symbols are “one-way” and therefore only trigger an effect when you press them. G Down fast (C5)—This key causes all six strings to sound at the same time. This is the fast version of the strum- ming pattern mentioned earlier. (The slow version can also be played using the F#5 key.) G e Down fast/a up fast (C#5)—Pressing this key trig- gers a fast downward strum. “Down” means that the simulated plectrum (or thumb/finger) moves from the lowest to the highest string (i.e. towards the lower part of the guitar). Releasing this key will trigger an upward strum (in the opposite direction). G Up fast (D5)—This key causes all six strings to sound at the same time, this time from the highest to the lowest string. G e Down fast mute/a up fast (Eb5)—Here is another downward strum that is muted almost instantly when you press this key. Guitarists achieve this effect by put- ting their hand on all strings. When you release this key, your virtual guitar plays an upward strum, which is not muted. G e Down fast/a up fast mute (E5)—This is the oppo- site of the previous pattern: the upward strum is muted, while the downward is not. G Down fast mute (F5)—This key triggers a downward strum that is muted almost instantly. G Down slow (F#5)—This key yields the same effect as the C#4 (in the “ARPEGGIO” area). G Down fast mute + knock (G5)—Here is a more elabo- rate technique, especially suited for acoustic guitars: a downward strum that is muted almost instantly and accompanied by a “knocking” sound. G Up slow (Ab5)—This is a slow upward strum. G Down slow mute (A5)—Here’s a slightly slower down- ward strum that is muted. G e Down fast 4/a up fast mute 4 (Bb5)—Here again is a two-way technique. This one, however, only uses the highest 4 strings. G Power chords 3 (B5)—This pattern is intended for elec- tric guitar sounds, usually also with some distortion. Only the lowest 3 strings are “played”. G Down fast 4 (C6)—Here’s another downward strum that only uses the highest 4 strings. G e Down fast 4/a up fast 4 (C#6)—Again a combined strumming pattern. Here, too, only the highest 4 strings are used. G Up fast 4 (D6)—An upward strum based on 4 strings. G e Down fast mute 4/a up fast 4 (Eb6)—Again 4 sim- ulated strings that are strummed in two directions. The downward strum is muted. G e Down fast 4/a up fast mute 4 (E6)—This is the opposite of the previous pattern: here, the fast upward strum is muted. G Down fast mute (F6)—And finally a “one-way” pattern that produces a fast downward strum, which is muted. Playing question and answer phrases It is also possible to temporarily “remove” the Guitar function from the keyboard and to play the UP3 in the entire right half (i.e. to temporarily deactivate the ARPEGGIO and STRUMM areas). After some practice, this should allow you to alternate between a guitar and another melodic instrument part. (1) Use the PART ON/OFF buttons to switch on the part you want to play instead of the Guitar section. UP3 would be an obvious choice. (2) While the Guitar mode is active, switch off the PART ON/OFF [UP1] button. The EASY SETTING [ARR] and [PIANO] indicators flash to signal that the Guitar mode is being bypassed. (3) Play on the keyboard. Now, the UP3 part sounds (UP1 and UP2 are not available). (4) Switch on the PART ON/OFF [UP1] button to restore the G-70’s Guitar mode and play the next guitar bit. To leave the Guitar mode, press any EASY SETTING ([ARR], [ORGAN] or [PIANO]) or KBD MODE button ([SPLIT] or ([WHOLE]), or the [Off÷On] switch icon on the GUITAR MODE page (to select “Off”). Alternatively, you can select a User Program that doesn’t use the Guitar mode. PART ON/OFF TONE ASSIGN MBS LW 2 LW 1 KEYBOARD PART UP 3 UP 2 UP 1