Roland TR-606 - Page 33

ADVANCED
COURSE
(Cont'd)
By
pressing the
CLEAR/RESET button (F) be-
fore
pressing TAP
button, the
bar
you have
just
played
has bean designated
as
the DC. Bar.
NOTE: Press Itie
CLEAR/RESET (DC)
button or
Pattern Group
(
$)
button
before
pressing
the
TAP
button.
Otherwise, the bar
will be
advanced
to
the
next bar.
To play the Track
,
press the
CLEAR/RESET
button
(f), and start the
Rhythm. When you
press
the
TAP
button
(y),
the Track
will jump
to
the
•$•
Bar after
finishing the bar that is play-
ing. At the end of the
Track , the
bar
you
set as
the D.C. Bar
will play once, and
then the Track
will reset and play
all
over
again
from the
first
bar. To change
a bar's designation
as
$
or
D.C.
simply
recompose
the
Track and designate
another bar as
$
or D.C, the
original D.S. or
D.C.
Bar's designation
will
be
automatically
erased.
Bar Saiection
Within the Track
A truly outstanding
operating feature of the
TR-606
is
the facility to
access any bar within
a
Track
for editing, changing
a -27D.C.
designation
or just to
listen to a specific passage.
This
is
ac-
complished
by reading the LED
display of the
Bar
Number,
which up
till now we have seen,
but
not described.
As mentioned
earlier, for
songs
that
are longer
than 64 bar,
these
Tracks can
be
chained up
to
four
Tracks
(256 bar). You
can
select any
bar
within the
chained
Tracks
and play
or compose
from the
bar you
selected.
DELETE,
INSERT.
For
example,
we
will call up
Bar
#1 15 in Track
#3. Actually,
the
bar
#1
15
is
located
in
Track
#4
because
the
capacity of
each
track
is 64
measures
(and
in this
case
track
#3 and
#4
are
chained).
While
the
Rliythm
is
stopped,
set
the
MODE
Selector (B) to
either
TRACK WHITE
or TRACK PLAY. Set the
TRACK
SELECTOR
to
#3,
which
is
the
lat track of tlie
chained
Track. Press
the FUNCTION
buttonQand
hold it down.
Press the SELECTOR
Switch (R)
corresponding
to the following
Bar designation
written bellow
them:
#100,
then
#1 then
#5.
The
LED indicators for
#100
and
#1
illuminates
and
#5 flashes.
This
indicates
that you have
set
the Track at Bar
#115.
Release the
FUNCTION
button and
press
ttie
RUN/STOP button.
Then,
you can hear the Rhythm
from
bar
#115.
The D.C. and
$
bars
can be
designated
by
only
pressing the
CLEAR/RESET
(F)
or
PATTERN GROUP
(R) button
respectively
in
tlie TRACK WHITE
MODE.
DELETE and
INSERT
Stop
the Rhythm,
set the
MODE
Selector to
TRACK
WRITE.
Select the
Bar to be
deleted or
inserted
in the
same way
as
described
above.
Release the FUNCTION
button once, and
press
it
again.
While holding down
the FUNCTION
button,
press the DEL button.
The selected
bar will be
deleted.
In
the case of
insert,
press
the
INS button.
This will spilt
the
Track memory
at the selected
bar and shift
all
of
the contents of
the rest of
ttie
rhythm track one bar
to the
right. Now you
can change the rhythm
in the selected
bar to
a
new one.
Press the
RUN/STOP button
and
select the
new Rhythm
Pattern by pressing
the
SELECTOR switch
(K) and press the
TAP
but-
ton
(O).
For example:—
If
you
mistakenly missed
bar 4
e.g. A 8 C E
F
G
Then call
up
the fourth bar using Bar
Selec-
tion,
and
press
FUNCTION
and
INSERT.
e.g. A B C
EE
F
G
Then you can
change
bar 4
to
its
correct
rhythm.
e.g. A B
C
D E F G
Displaying
$
and D.C.
bar
While
the rhythm
is
stopped.
$
and
D.C.
bar
can be displayed by
the
LED
indicators.
While holding
down the
FUNCTION
button,
press the
PATTERN
GROUP
or
CLEAR/
RESET
button respectively.
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