Roland EM-30 User Manual

Contents
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1. Important notes ..................7
2. Panel descriptions ................8
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22.Rearpanel ........ cece cece cece Y Y Y Y. 11
3. Listening to the demo songs .......12
3.1 Setting up your EM-50/30 ..................... 12
3.2 Playing back the demo songs .................. 12
4. Playing with accompaniment .......13
4.1 Basic Music Style operations ................... 13
4.2 Selecting other Divisions ...................... 15
4.3 Selecting other Styles ........................ 15
Selecting Custom Styles ...................... 16
4,4 Style Progression and Style Morphing ........... 16
Style Progression (“orchestration”) ............. 16
Style Morphing ............................ 16
4.5 Other useful Music Style functions .............. 17
Bass Inversion ........ 0. cece cece eee eee ya, 17
One Touch Program ........................ 17
Melody Intelligence (INTEL) ................. 18
Metronome and Tempo ...................... 18
Volume balance and on/off status of the
Arranger parts 2.2... 0.0 cece cece cere Y, 19
5. Upper part functions ............ .20
5.1 Selecting the Whole Upper mode ............... 20
5.2 Selecting the Upper 1 and/or 2 part(s) ........... 20
5.3 Selecting Tones for the Upper parts ............. 21
Variations’ i'u camina nid RUDD DO de oes 21
5.4 Keyboard Velocity .......................... 22
5.5 D Beam Controller ........................... 22
5.6 Pitch Bend, Modulation, and Sustain ............ 22
Bender/Modulation lever ..................... 22
Sustain Footswitch .......................... 23
5.7 Chorus and Reverb ........................... 23
5.8 Transpose & Octave .......................... 23
"IDranspose iria t see reru ewe 2
Octave up/down ............................24
5.9 Upper Tone balance ........................... 24
6. Organ mode ....................25
6.1 Selecting Tones .............................. 25
Selecting Upper Tones ....................... 25
Selecting Lower Tones ...................... 25
6.2 Playing to a drum accompaniment .............. 25
6.3 Other functions you can use ................... 26
6.4 Switching on the M.Bass part .................. 26
6.5 Balance in Organ mode ....................... 26
EM-50/30
7. M.Drums mode ..................27
7.1 Selecting other Drums Sets .................... 27
Playing other drum/percussion sounds (MDr Shift) 27
7.2 Volume balance in M.Drums mode .............. 28
8. Using the Recorder ...............29
8.1 Deleting the song in the internal memory ........ 29
8.2 Recording your own Songs .................... 29
Recording with Arranger backing .............. 29
Recording organ music ...................... 31
Recording piano music ......................32
Recording live drums ........................ 32
Other recording options (Song mode) .......... 33
8.3 Changing the song tempo ...................... 33
8.4 Saving your SONG ..........................sa 34
Saving your Song to disk (EM-50 only) .........34
8.5 Fast Forward, Rewind, and Reset ............... 35
8.6 Loop playback (Repeat) ....................... 36
8.7 Playing back Standard MIDI Files (EM-50 only) ..... 36
8.8 Live performance with song backing (Minus One) . .37
Muting song parts ..........................37
9. Miscellaneous ...................38
9.1 Using the INPUTS ..........................wa 38
9.2 Using the OUTPUTS .......................... 38
9.3 Setting the display contrast .................... 38
9.4 Functions for educational purposes ............. 39
10. Advanced Arranger settings .......40
10.1 More about Style Progression ................. 40
10.2 Style Morphing details ....................... 40
10.3 Selecting another "B" Style ................... 40
10.4 Disk User Styles (EM-50 only) ...............». 41
11. User Programs ..................83
11.1 Writing your settings to a User Program ........ 43
Notes about writing User Programs ............ 44
11.2 Selecting a User Program ..................... 44
Selectively recalling User Program settings
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12. Parameter mode ................46
12.1 Editing the parameters (general procedure) ...... 46
12.2 Parameters ................................ A6
13. MIDI functions .................50
13.1 Editing the MIDI parameters (general procedure) . .50
Parameters in Style mode ....................50
Synchronization parameters ..................52
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Local! gaen Lise Ad DD AN GY 53
Dump TX «reae the ddr DF NEU A 54
MIDI in Song mode .........................54
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Roland EM-30 Specifications

General

Brand	Roland
Model	EM-30
Category	Electronic Keyboard
Language	English