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Roland EM-50 User Manual

Roland EM-50
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Roland
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EM-50/30
CREATIVE
KEYBOARD
Owner's
Manual

Table of Contents

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Roland EM-50 Specifications

General IconGeneral
Number of Keys61
KeyboardVelocity-sensitive
Reverb Types8
Chorus Types8
DisplayLCD
Power SupplyAC Adapter
Polyphony64
Speakers12 cm x 2
ConnectorsMIDI, Headphone

Summary

Features

D Beam Controller

Controls various parameters by moving your hand over an infrared light beam.

64 User Programs with Style Hold function

Memories for saving panel settings, including Style, Tone, and tempo.

64 Music Styles in ROM + 8 in Flash-ROM

Offers 72 automatic accompaniments, 64 in ROM and 8 in Flash-ROM.

1. Important notes

Power supply

Guidelines for using the correct power supply and avoiding noise interference.

2. Panel descriptions

2.1 Front panel

Detailed explanation of all controls and buttons on the EM-50/30's front panel.

4. Playing with accompaniment

About the Arranger

Detailed explanation of the Arranger's automatic accompaniment function.

4.1 Basic Music Style operations

Step-by-step guide to starting Arranger playback using Music Styles.

4.3 Selecting other Styles

4.4 Style Progression and Style Morphing

4.5 Other useful Music Style functions

5. Upper part functions

5.3 Selecting Tones for the Upper parts

5. Upper part functions

5.4 Keyboard Velocity

Explanation of velocity sensitivity and how it affects note volume/brightness.

5.5 D Beam Controller

Instructions for operating the D Beam Controller for musical expression.

5.8 Transpose & Octave

7. M.Drums mode

7.1 Selecting other Drums Sets

Guide on selecting different Drum Sets for M.Drums mode.

8. Using the Recorder

8.2 Recording your own Songs

Introduction to the EM-50/30's flexible 2-track recording capabilities.

Recording with Arranger backing

Guide for recording melodies with Arranger accompaniment.

8.2 Recording your own Songs

Recording with Arranger backing (continued)

Details on the first and second recording passes for Arranger backing.

8.2 Recording your own Songs

8.4 Saving your Song

Instructions for saving recorded songs to internal memory or disk.

8.4 Saving your Song

Saving your Song to disk (EM-50 only)

Detailed steps for saving songs to a floppy disk on the EM-50.

Save operation

Steps to save a song to a formatted disk.

8.7 Playing back Standard MIDI Files (EM-50 only)

8.8 Live performance with song backing (Minus One)

10. Advanced Arranger settings

10.4 Disk User Styles (EM-50 only)

11. User Programs

11.1 Writing your settings to a User Program

Detailed steps for writing current settings into User Program memories.

11.2 Selecting a User Program

Selectively recalling User Program settings (Style Hold)

12. Parameter mode

12.1 Editing the parameters (general procedure)

General steps for accessing and modifying the EM-50/30's advanced parameters.

12.2 Parameters

Detailed descriptions of various system parameters for fine-tuning.

12.2 Parameters

13. MIDI functions

13.1 Editing the MIDI parameters (general procedure)

General steps for accessing and editing MIDI parameters.

Parameters in Style mode

Configuration of MIDI parameters when using the Arranger.

13.1 Editing the MIDI parameters (general procedure)

Parameters in Style mode (continued)

MIDI filters for various messages and synchronization setup.

Synchronization parameters (continued)

14. Archiving/loading settings

14.1 Archiving your settings via MIDI (Dump TX)

Method for transferring settings to a computer or sequencer via MIDI.

14.1 Archiving your settings via MIDI (Dump TX)

Transmitting archived/new data to the EM-50/30

Steps to transfer archived settings back to the EM-50/30.

14.2 Disk functions (EM-50)

Loading files from disk

How to load User Programs and Custom Styles from a floppy disk.

Saving files to disk

How to save Songs, User Programs, and Custom Styles to disk.

14.2 Disk functions (EM-50)

Saving files to disk (continued)

Completing file saving, naming conventions, and error handling.

14.4 Initializing your EM-50/30 (Factory)

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