Roland TD-50 - Performing Along with a Song; Performing Along with an Audio Player Song; Performing Along with a TD-50 Song; Repeatedly Playing a Specified Region (A-B Repeat)

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Performing
Performing Along with a Song
Performing Along with an Audio Player Song
Here’s how to connect an audio player (smartphone) to the MIX IN
jack, and perform along with a song.
1. Connect an audio player to the MIX IN jack (p. 8, p. 9).
2. Play back the audio player.
3. Turn the [MIX IN] knob to adjust the volume of the song.
Performing Along with a TD-50 Song
The TD-50 contains songs of a wide range of genres.
Some internal songs consist only of audio data, and others record a
drum performance (MIDI data).
An audio le (WAV or MP3) on an SD card can also be played back
as a song.
Here’s how to perform along with a song.
1. Press the [SONG] button.
The SONG screen appears.
MEMO
When you select an audio song, the screen shows the SPEED
parameter (p. 15).
2. Use the [F1]–[F3] buttons, [–] [+] buttons, or dial to select
a song.
Button Explanation
[F1] (INTERNAL) button Internal songs
[F2] (SD CARD) button SD card songs
[F3] (REC DATA) button
Songs recorded on the TD-50 or on an SD
card
MEMO
5 For details on the internal songs, refer to “Data List” (PDF).
5 To select a song from within a folder on the SD card, turn the
[R2] knob to select the folder.
Controller Function
[R2] knob Moves cursor
[
K
] button
Exits a folder
[
J
] button
Enters a folder
[F5] (SELECT) button Conrms the selected folder
3. Press the [
s
] button.
The selected song plays.
Controller Function
[
s
] button
Play/stop the song
[
H
] (
u
) button
Move to the beginning of the song
[
I
] (
u
) button
Move to the end of the song *
[
K
] (
x
) button
Rewind the song *
[
J
] (
y
) button
Fast-forward the song *
[SONG] knob
Adjust the volume of the song (
audio le)
[CLICK] knob Adjust the volume of the click track (p. 15)
* This might be unavailable depending on the type of song.
Reference
5 By outputting an audio le from the SD card as a click track,
you can play a click along with the song (p. 15).
5 You can connect the TD-50 to your computer and play back
sound from your computer. For details, refer to “Specifying
the Input for USB Audio” (p. 31).
When transferring les from your computer to
an SD card
Audio les can be played back not only from the top level of
the SD card drive, but also from within a folder.
* You can put up to 200 song les in a single folder.
* Make sure that no single le is larger than 2 GB.
Reference
For details, refer to “SD card folder structure” (p. 40).
Audio les that can be played by the TD-50
WAV MP3
Format (extension) WAV (.wav) MP3 (.mp3)
Sampling frequency 44.1 kHz 44.1 kHz
Bit rate 16, 24-bit 64 kbps–320 kbps
* File names or folder names that contain more than 16
characters are not shown correctly. Files and folders using
double-byte characters are also not supported.
Repeatedly Playing a Specied Region
(A-B Repeat)
You can repeat a portion of the song.
* You can’t specify A-B repeat for an internal drum performance
song or for a recorded song (REC DATA).
A B
1. Select and play a song.
2. In the SONG screen, press the [F4] (A-B) button at the
location where you want to start repeating.
The character “A” appears.
MEMO
You can use the [
K
] (
x
)/[
J
] (
y
) buttons to move backward or
forward in ve-second steps. Hold down a button to rewind or
fast-forward.
3. At the location where you want to stop repeating, press
the [F4] (A-B) button.
The character “B” appears, and the region of the song between “A”
and “B” plays repeatedly.
Press the [F4] (A-B RPT) button to return to normal playback.