Roland RD-600 - Advanced Tone Selection: Bank Select; Using Bank Select for Tone Selection

* Instead of using Group/Category/Variation, you can use the [INC/YES] [DEC/NO] buttons to direct-
ly specify the program number. When you press the [INC/YES] and [DEC/NO] buttons sintultane-
ously, the setting will be turned off, and program numbers will no longer be transmitted.
Example: Selecting the Tone of program number 20 on an external MIDI device
program number 20 is transmitted and the Tone corresponding
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MIDI OUT MIDI IN
Play the keyboard of the RD-600, and the Tone of the external MIDI device will sound.
Selecting a greater number of Tones (Bank Select)
By specifying a program number you can select 128 different Tones. However many MIDI
instruments have more than 128 sounds.
For such instruments, you can select Tones by combining Bank Select messages with Program
Change messages. Bank Select messages consist of an MSB (a value 0-127 for controller number
0) and a LSB (a value 0-127 for controller number 32). Some devices recognize the LSB while
other devices do not.
* Some MIDI devices cannot use Bank Select messages. For details refer to the owner's manual for the
MIDI device that you wish to connect.
Using Bank Select to select a Tone
Let’s assign Bank Select MSB: 8, LSB: 0, and Program Number 5 to the TX UPPER part.
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INTERNAL TONE CATEGORY
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INTERNAL TONE VARIATION
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1. Press the TX UPPER part select button to make the indicator light.
2. Use the PAGE [ < ][ » ] buttons to move the cursor to the Bank Select MSB location.
3. Use the [INC/ YES] [DEC / NO] buttons to set the value to 8.
Move the cursor
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Bank Select LSB can be left at 0, so next you will specify the program number.
* If you wish to specify the LSB, use the PAGE [ « ][ » ] buttons to mrove the cursor to the Bank Select
LSB location, and use the [INC/YES] [DEC/NO] buttons to modify the value.
4. Press the Group /Category / Variation (A15) buttons to select the program number.
The program number display in the [ ] of the screen will change, and the Bank Select MSB,
LSB and a program change message will be transmitted from MIDI OUT,
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ALICOFRF] OFF-OFF
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