CONTENTS
Features
i
Important
Notes
2
Contents 3
Panel Descriptions
4
Basic
Connections
7
[1]4ModesoftheCR-80
8
[2]
Playing
the Rhythm
Patterns lo
1
.
Power-on 10
2. Basic Playing
-•'
10
(1)
Selecting a
Rhythm
Style and Playing 10
(2)
Tempo Write
•11
(3)
Adjusting
the Volume Balance
11
(4)
Adjusting the
Feel
12
[Start/Stop
with the Foot Pedal]
12
[How to use a
Music
Style Card] 13
3.
Piaying
various
Rhythm
Patterns 14
(1)
Variation
14
(2)R!l-in 14
(3)
Break
15
(4)
Intro
16
(5)
Ending
16
4. Adding Variety to the Rhythm 17
(1)Fade In/Out 17
Gradually increases or decreases
the
volume
oi
a rhythm pattern as it is playing.
(2)
Auto
Fill-in
17
Inserts a fill when you change Vanalion
patterns
(3)
Tap Tempo
18
Tempo setting by tapping a key
(4)
Restart 18
Synchronizing
rhythm
patterns using
a
loot pedal
5.
Initializing
the
Volume Balance
19
[3]
Playing
the
CR-80 viWn
the Key Pads 20
[4]
Making a Song
22
1 . Programming a Song
24
(1
)
Song Entry
•
24
(2)
Fill-in/Break/lntro/Ending Pattern
Seiection
25
(3)
Repeat Setting
26
(4)
About the Tempo
of a Song 27
2.
Editing
a
Song
28
(1)
Part Change
28
(2)
Part
Delete
28
(3)
New Part
Insertion
29
3.
Playing
a
Song
30
(1)
How
to piay a Song
30
(2) How to use (TO CODA) 31
[5]
Using MIDI
32
1. About MIDI 32
(1)
MIDI message Communication 32
(2)
MIDI messages
33
2.
Starting tlie CR-80
by playing a keyboard (Sync
Start)
- -
-35
3.
Controlling
the Volume of the CR-80 from the keyboard
-36
4.
Synchronization
with an external device
38
5. Using
the CR-80
as a MIDI Sound
Module
40
6. Playing
a
MIDI Sound
Module with the CR-80
44
[6]
Reference 46
1
.
To restore all factory-set parameter
values
46
2.
Trouble Shooting
46
3. Error message
Table
50
4. Percussion Sounds Table 61
5. Note Numbers
:
Default
Setting / Correspondence
-
52
of Percussion Sounds
to
Level
Slider
6. Number
of bars
in
each
Rhythm Pattern
53
MIDI
Implementation
54
MIDI
Implementation Chart
58
Specifications 59
Index
-
60
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