Roland DR-880 - Saving and Managing Patterns; Naming, Writing, and Copying Patterns

65
Chap. 2
Saving a pattern
If you want to keep a pattern you’ve created or
edited, you must carry out the “Write” operation
to write (store) the pattern into a user pattern
memory location.
If you re-select a pattern or turn off the power before
Writing, your edited pattern data will be lost.
Naming a pattern (Pattern Name)
You can assign a name (pattern name) of up to
fourteen characters to your pattern.
1. In the pattern edit menu screen, move the
cursor to the “NAME” icon and press
[ENTER].
The pattern name edit screen appears.
fig.02-260d
2. Move the cursor to the place where you
want to input a character, and use the
VALUE dial to choose a character.
3. When you’ve finished specifying the
name, press [EXIT].
4. Proceed with “Writing your pattern.”
Writing your pattern
1. In the pattern edit menu screen, move the
cursor to the “WRITE” icon and press
[ENTER].
The pattern write screen appears.
fig.02-270d
2. Use the VALUE dial to select the user pattern
into which you want to write your pattern.
3. Move the cursor to “NOTE DATA FIX” and
use the VALUE dial to turn it on/off.
NOTE DATA FIX
This specifies how the pattern will be saved
when you create a pattern with the Pattern
Information setting Arrange (p. 53) turned ON.
ON:
The pattern will be saved with the performance
data (bass) as it was converted by the Arrange
function. If you execute Write with this setting
ON, the Pattern Information setting Arrange
will automatically be turned OFF.
* If you save with NOTE DATA FIX turned on, and then
turn the pattern information Arrange setting on, the
pattern (to which Arrange has been applied) will once
again be processed by the Arrange function, possibly
producing unexpected results.
OFF:
The pattern will be saved without being
processed by the arranger.
4. To write your pattern, press [ENTER].
If you decide not to write it, press [EXIT].
The message “Now writing...” will appear,
and the pattern will be saved.
When the pattern has been saved, the
message will disappear.
* Do not turn off the power while the message is displayed.
Your data may be damaged if you do so.
Button operations
[CURSOR]
[CURSOR]
Move the cursor.
[CURSOR]
Switch from lowercase to
uppercase characters.
[CURSOR]
Switch from uppercase to
lowercase characters.
[SHIFT]+
[CURSOR]
Insert a space at the cursor
location.
[SHIFT]+
[CURSOR]
Delete the character at the cur-
sor location, and shift subse-
quent characters to the left.