Roland G-800 - Chapter 3. Tone pages and Tone mode; Tone selection; Tone Edit (Part parameters)

G-800 Reference Manual
3. Tone pages and Tone mode
Tone selection
O Master page: TONE buttons
Or [TONE] + knobs
The Tone mode is similar to the Volume mode in that the selecting a Tone for a Realtime part
automatically calls up a Tone mode page. The indicator of the [TONE] button starts flashing,
and the Tone page disappears after a few seconds of inaction.
Pressing the [TONE] button, on the other hand, activates the Tone mode (indicator lights),
which you then have to leave manually by pressing [TONE] again.
Whenever you press a TONE GROUP (A, B, C, D) button, if you select this page by pressing
[F1] after selecting the Tone mode, or if you rotate the [ACCOMP/GROUP] knob while the
Tone mode page is displayed, the display responds with a list of the Banks that can be selected
in that Group:
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You could now check the contents of the banks of the other groups by pressing [PAGE] Y or
[PAGE] A. Doing so does not activate the Group, whose name appears in the scroll bar, for
selection, which is indicated by a positive Group name display:
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This
Group
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ORCHESTRA
not selected -B 3 ORGAN ENSEMBLE
me GUITAR & BRASS
Also note the “MIDI address” of the currently active Tone or Variation (B5310 Choral Bells):
To select the above Tone via MIDI, you must transmit control change CCO “16”, CC32 “2”,
and progra change “99” (in that order) to the G-800 (either via MIDI or from a Standard MIDI
File). These values will also be transmitted or recorded whenever you select a Tone on the
G-800.
See the Player's Guide for details about Tone selection and the pages that are displayed.
Tone Edit (Part parameters)
In the Tone mode, pressing [F4] (Edit) selects the Part edit page, where you can set the values
of the G-800’s Part parameters.
All Part parameters are “NRPN’ able”, meaning that you can assign them to a control change
number and edit them using other control change messages. See page 81 for details about
NRPN messages.
The values of these parameters can be positive (+) or negative (—) because they are relative
parameters that change the preset values of the Tone assigned to the currently active part.
Note: Selecting another Tone after editig the Part parameters does not reset the Part parameters.
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