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Roland RA-800 User Manual

Roland RA-800
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Roland RA-800 Specifications

General IconGeneral
BrandRoland
ModelRA-800
CategoryRecording Equipment
LanguageEnglish

Summary

Player's Guide

IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS

Safety Precautions

Essential safety precautions to follow when using electric products.

Introduction

Main features of your RA-800

Overview of the key features and capabilities of the Roland RA-800.

Unpacking your RA-800

Precautions

Power, Placement, and Maintenance

Guidelines for power supply, placement, and maintenance of the RA-800.

1 Setting up

1.1 Connections

Explains how to connect the RA-800 to other MIDI devices and audio equipment.

1.2 MIDI Sets and RA-800 Specifics

Details on MIDI Sets and important considerations for the RA-800.

1.3 Functions exclusive to Basic Channel control

2 Panel Descriptions

2.1 Front panel

Detailed description of the RA-800's front panel controls and display.

2.2 Rear panel

Description of the connectors and controls on the rear panel.

3 User interface

Basic Interface Operations

Using [F5] Exit, Master page, and display page navigation.

Interface Controls

Using knobs, [TONE], [VOLUME], and [PAGE] buttons.

4 Realtime parts

4.1 What are Parts?

Explanation of the different parts (Realtime, Arranger) in the RA-800.

4.2 Selecting Realtime parts

How to select and assign parts to keyboard sections.

4.3 Selecting Tones for Realtime parts

Guide to selecting instrument tones for Realtime parts.

4.4 Selecting Drum Sets

How to select drum sets for the M.Drums part.

4.7 Realtime Performance functions

5 Playing with accompaniment – Arranger

5.1 Arranger and Music Styles

Understanding Arranger and Music Styles for accompaniment.

Arranger Parts

Explanation of the different parts within the accompaniment.

5.2 Chord Recognition Area

How to select the chord recognition area.

5.3 Arranger Chord Modes

Choosing between Standard, Piano Style, and Intelligent modes.

5.4 External Keyboard Control

5.5 Chord Inversion and Hold

5.6 Music Style (Arranger) functions

Starting and Stopping Music Styles

Steps to start and stop playing Music Styles.

Selecting Style Divisions

Fill Functions

Intro and Ending Sections

Useful Style Playback Features

5.7 Selecting Music Styles

User and Autoloaded Styles

Loading User Styles from Disk

Selecting User Styles

5.8 Style Tempo Control

5.9 Customizing Music Styles

5.10 Working with User Style Sets

6 Saving and Loading Registrations – Performance Memories

Saving Performance Memories to Disk

How to save Performance Memories to a disk.

6.1 Writing Settings to Performance Memory

Steps to save current settings into a Performance Memory.

Selecting Performance Memories with UP/DOWN Buttons

Selective Loading of Settings (Performance Memory Hold)

7 Chord Sequencer

7.1 Recording Accompaniment

Recording an entire song's accompaniment using the Chord Sequencer.

8 Recorder (GM/GS mode)

8.1 Recording a Song

Step-by-step guide to recording songs in GM/GS mode.

8.6 Live Performances with Standard MIDI File Backing

9 Easy Editing

9.1 Part Balance (Volume)

Adjusting the volume balance of individual parts.

9.2 Effects and Equalizer

Using and adjusting effects (Reverb, Chorus, Delay) and Equalizer.

10 Editing Part Parameters

Intelligent Melodies

11 Advanced Features

Source Switches

11.5 Song Sets

12 Programming User Styles

12.2 Recording User Styles from Scratch

Recording new User Styles from scratch.

Specifying Key and Quantizing

12.3 External Sequencer Integration

12.4 Editing User Styles

12.5 Copying Existing Styles

Copying Individual User Style Tracks

User Style Edit Mode Functions

12.7 Step Time Recording

12.8 Deleting a User Style

13 MIDI

13.1 MIDI in General

General information about MIDI connectors and data.

MIDI on your RA-800

13.2 MIDI Connections

Connecting the RA-800 to external MIDI devices.

13.3 Receiving MIDI Data

Receiving MIDI data on the RA-800.

13.4 Transmit Channels and Settings

13.5 Switching MIDI Reception/Transmission

Zones (Low/High Limits)

Local Function Control

13.6 Advanced MIDI Settings

13.7 MIDI Synchronization

Synchronizing the RA-800 with MIDI devices.

13.8 MIDI Sets

Writing a MIDI Set

Loading a MIDI Set from Disk

14 Housekeeping

14.2 Disk Copy (Backups)

Copying disks for backup purposes.

Renaming Files on Disk

14.4 Deleting Files on Disk

14.5 Initializing RA-800 (Factory Setup)

14.6 Compatibility

Writing GM/GS Compatible MIDI Files

Tone Lists

Preset MIDI Sets

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