Roland EM-30 - Upper Part Functions; Selecting the Whole Upper Mode; Selecting Upper 1 and;or 2 Parts

Owner's Manual
5. Upper part functions
In Arranger and Organ modes, the EM-50/30's key-
board is split into two halves. As explained in the pre-
vious chapter, the split in Arranger mode divides the
keyboard into one half for Arranger control, and a
second for playing melodies.
The sound you hear when you play with your right
hand is called a Tone. That Tone belongs to a section
called Upper part. The EM-50/30 provides two Upper
parts (1 and 2) that can either be used in isolation or
simultaneously.
The term “part” is used here because the Upper parts
are actually “musicians” of an orchestra or band (the
lead/solo). And like some musicians (guitarists, key-
board players, flute players, etc.), they do not use the
same instrument for every song.
“Tones” are to the Upper parts what instruments are
to the musicians of a band or orchestra: you can
choose the instrument that best suits the song you
want to play.
Note: The following applies both to the Arranger and the
Organ modes.
5.1 Selecting the Whole Upper
mode
The EM-50/30 allows you to decide against splitting
the keyboard. This allows you to play “regular” piano
music (and is also useful for educational purposes).
In this case, you can only use the Upper 1 and/or 2
parts, which is why we shall call this mode Whole
Upper (Upper Parts assigned to the entire keyboard).
To select this mode, press MODE [ARRANGER] or
[ORGAN] so that neither the nor the
icon is displayed.
Note: The Arranger can supply a drum accompaniment
part to your piano, ete. part. See "Playing to a drum
accompaniment" on page 25.
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5.2 Selecting the Upper 1 and/or
2 part(s)
As stated above, the EM-50/30 provides two Upper
parts (i.e. two musicians). Here is how to choose the
one you need:
1. If the UPPER 1 message is displayed (more or less
in the center of the display), the Upper 1 part is
active.
2. To switch off Upper 1, while switching on the
Upper 2 part, press the [UPPER 1/2] button
(“UPPER 1” disappears and “UPPER 2" is displayed).
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You can use the [UPPER 1/2] button to alternate
between two completely different Tones (assigned to
Upper ! and Upper 2). This allows you to play ques-
tion-and-answer types of melodies/solos simply by
pressing this button several times in succession.
Layering Upper 1 and 2
3. To use both Upper 1 and Upper 2, press the
|INTEL/LAYER] button once or twice until the Layer
icon (MAYER ER") appears in the display.
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The Layer icon tells you that the Upper 2 part is now
added to Upper 1. Every note you play with your right
hand will be sounded by two Tones.
Note: The Layer function is not available when you acti-
vate the Melody Intelligence function (see page 18).
4. Press [INTEL/LAYER] again to switch de Layer
function off again.
Note: By doing so, you may activate the Melody Intelli-
gence function. If that is not what you want, press
[INTEL/LAYER] again (so that neither the MELODY
INTELL nor the LAYER icon is displayed).