Roland HP503 - Advanced Practice Techniques

Practicing
Repeatedly Practicing a Portion of a Song (AB Repeat)
Here’s how you can repeatedly play back a specied portion of the song. You can use this function to repeatedly practice that portion.
Section to repeat
A (Repeat Start)
B (Repeat End)
Time
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1. Press the [ ] (Play/Stop) button.
The song will play back.
2. Press the [AB Repeat] button at the point where you want to start repeating (point A).
The [AB Repeat] button will blink.
3. Press the [AB Repeat] button at the point where you want to stop repeating (point B).
The [AB Repeat] button will light, and playback will begin repeating.
4. To cancel the repeat function, press the [AB Repeat] button once again.
The [AB Repeat] button will go out, the repeat points you specied will be cleared.
MEMO
• The repeat points can be set at the beginning of each measure for an SMF song, or in 1/100th of a second for audio.
• Instead of playing back the song, you can also specify the portion to repeat by using the [
] [ ] buttons.
Moving the portion to repeat forward or backward
When AB Repeat is on, you can move the repeated portion forward or backward.
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Section to repeat
Section to repeat
A (Repeat Start)
B (Repeat Start)
Time
1. While holding down the [AB Repeat] button, press the [–] [+] buttons.
The repeated portion will be moved without its length being changed.
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