G-s00 ARRANGER WORKSTATION 1- Player’s Guide ra ET ESE RNS SEIT agate eeeGrin A A ATTENTION neaseceoecmscTnove ners cua ‘CAUTION: TO REDUCE THE ASK OF ELECTRIC SHOCK, DO NOT REMOVE COVER (OR BACK) NOUSER SERVICEASLE PARTS INSIDE REFER SERVICING TO QUALIFIED SERVICE PERSONNEL. ‘The lghning fash woh aroneas symbol, wih an ‘cular! ange, i intended 'o set the Uso lo the presence of uninculated "aangeross votage™ witin the products enclosure thal may be of suttcent meget nse ark elocire shack opesons, The excamston point wihin an equiteral ange fe ietended f alot the uso fo the prasonee of important ‘pertng and mintananee (eercng) Insrucions te erat accompanying proves INSTRUCTIONS PERTAINING TO A RISK OF FIRE, ELECTRIC SHOCK, OR INJURY TO PERSONS. IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS SAVE THESE INSTRUCTIONS WARNING - When using sectle products, basic precautions should always be flowed, incuding the folowing Read all the instuctons before using the product. 2. Do not use this product naar water — for example, near a bathtub, washbow, kichen sink, in @ wet basement, or near 2 saienming poo, or he Ike, ‘This product should be used only with a cart or stand that is fecommended by the manufacturer. This product, ether alone orn combination with an amltier ‘and Readshones or speakers, may be capable of producing sound levels that could cause permanent hearing loss. Do ‘ot operate for along period of time at a high volume level or ata level that is uncomforiabe. if you experience any hearing 1085 or ringing in the ears, you should consult an audiologist, “The product should be located so that ts locaton or postion 6088 not interfere with ts proper vention, ‘The product shouls be located away frem heat sources such as radiators, heet registers, or over products tht produce hast ‘The product should be connected to @ power supply ony of the type desorbed in the operating instructions or 8s marked on the product 8. The power-supply cord ofthe produet should be unplugged ‘tom the outlet when ie unused fora long period of ime. 8. Care should be taken so thal abjects donc fll end quis arent spilled into the enclosure through openings. 10.The product should be serviced by qualiied senice ‘personnel wine: ‘The power-supoy cord or B, Objects have fallen, or iquid has been soiled onto the product; or . The product has baen exposed to rain: oF ©: The product does not sppear to operate normally oF exhibits a marked change in pectormance, o¢ The product has bean dropped, or the enclosure damaged 11.09 rot attempt to service the product bayond that described in the usermaintenance Instructions, all cher serving should be refered o qualified service personnel plug has been damaged: oF For the USA. This product may be equipped wit a polarized ine plug (one blade wider than the other). This sa safely feature, i you ‘aro unable to insert the plug ito the oute, contact an elecircian to replace your obeolete cult. Oo not doteat the arehy purpose of te ola, For Polarized Line Plog CAUTION: ‘TO PREVENT ELECTRIC SHOCK, MATCH WIDE BLADE OF PLUG TO WIDE SLOT, FULLY in ATTENTION: pour eviren tes cocs éLecTRIQUES, INTAODUIRE LA LAME LA PLUS LARGE DE LA For Canada DANS LA BORNE CORRESPONDANTE DE LA PRISE ET POUSSER JUSQU' AU FOND. For the Ux, IMPORTANT: THE WIRES IN THIS MAINS LEAD ARE COLOURED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FOLLOWING CODE BLUE: NEUTRAL BROWN: LIVE A the colours of the wires In the mains lead ofthis apparatus may not correspond with the coloured markings identifying the terminals in your plug, proceed as follows: ‘The wire which is coloured BLUE must be connected to the terminal which is marked withthe leterN or coloured BLACK. ‘The wire whichis coloured BROWN must be connected fo te terminal whieh ie marked withthe ltr Lor coloured ASD.troduction, Welcome tothe C-200 Introduction Welcome to the G-800 ‘Thank you for purchasing the Roland G-800 Arranger Workstation. Ever since the introduc- tion of its Fnvelligent Synthesizer keyboard line, the name Roland has come to be associated ‘with the best sounding and certainly most musical “keyboards” available. ‘The G-800 is the professional continuation of the Roland keyboard series, and as such designed to provide everything the entertaining artist and serious amateur musician needs on stage. in the studio, or at home, Manuals ‘The G-800 is supplied with two manuals: the Player's Guide and the Reference Manual. ‘The Player's Guide explains how to set up, switch on, and use the G-800. This is probably the document you will read first. Later on, you can refer to the Reference Manual for full details about all the G-800"s param- eters and functions. Note: You will find a general alphabetical index a the end of both manuals that will help you locate information quickly: Note: To avoid confusion, let us agree 10 use the word “button” for all Keys (except the function keys) on the front panel, and only use “key” when refering to the G-800's keyboard, Main features of your G-800 © 128 High-definition Music Styles Your G-800 comes loaded with an impressive 128 high-definirion Music Styles covering eve- ry musical genre you need, Each Style comprises four versions (Basic. Advanced, Original, ‘and Variation), two Tatros, two Endings, and various other elements that actually add up to far more than 128 accompaniments, oF 8 User Styles ‘Tne G-800 allows you co have 8 User Styles in RAM at any given time. The User Style mem- ‘ies can be used to load your own Styles or any eight Styles from existing MSA, MSD, and MSE Style Library disks (available from Roland and thint-party suppliers). When creating your own Styles, you can edit existing Styles or program your own accompaniments from ‘scratch, and then save them to floppy disk. © 192 Performance Memories Apart from allowing you to customize existing Styles quickly, the Performance Memories are ‘also used to save all panel settings, If you need more than 192 memories, you ean save the ‘contents of the Performances to floppy disk and load them whenever necessary. If you do not wish ta program Styles, oF if you are too busy to delve into this matter, you can personalize existing Styles by modifying the instrument assignments to any given Arranger part (bass, drums, chord backing, etc.), and then save these changes to one of the 192 Perfor- mance Memories in RAM. o© Truly intelligent ‘Your G-800 is intelligent in that it adapts Style playback to the chords you play. While pre vious models were unable to cope with syncopated chord changes, the Arranger of your 76-800 Player's Guide —_-]asos oo .G-800 will change accordingly, so that you could even play different chords for every eighth note (quaver) of a bar and stil benefit from a professional sounding accompaniment Furthermore, you only need to play toot notes in order to have the Arranger play major chords, or press a mere wo or the keys to sound even the most complex chords you can think of (Chord Intelligence). + Refined chord recognition ‘Thanks to one of the most refined chord recognition systems to date, your G-800 can handle virtually any chord you play. Feel free to add the odd 9/13 ot “+"to your chords whenever the song you are playing requires i. Three trigger modes ‘The Music Styles of your G-800 can be triggered in one of three modes: Standard, Intelligent or Piano Style. In Standard mode, the chord recognition of the Arranger works the way you ‘would expect an Intelligent Synthesizer to operate. In Intelligent mode, you do not have to play complete chords in order to hear them. Pressing ‘one, to, oF three keys will produce even the mast complex chords you ean think of The Piano Mode, finally, is provided for those with a “pianistic” background. ‘= Dynamic Arranger In Dynamic Arranger mode the level of certain pans played by the Arranger respond to veloe- ity changes. Combined with afew clever programming tricks, his allows you to mbte or sound any given part ofthe automatic accompaniment simply by varying the orce with which you strike the keys (a kind of velocity switeh effect applied t ecconipanimens parts tather than sounds). ‘+ High-resolution Music Styles All Mosic Styles were programmed ata 120CPT/ resolution and contain modulation and Pitch Bend messages that ad that litle “something” one invariably associates with a musical performance (sides, vibrato, et.) ‘+ 689 top-notch sounds Your G-800 comes with 654 sounds and 35 1V series Variations, most of which are derived from Roland’s professional synthesizers and samplers, No matter which style you want to play, thee will always be afew sounds to choose from. _ | ‘Tre tothe Roland tadon, the G-800allows yout customise your sounds (or Tones, we cal the) by ediing te avlabe Part parameters. These changes ay be selena ne ofthe 192 Performance memories long with ihe range soln wy = Extra Bender Controller ‘The Extra Bender Controller canbe used a5 ational pesformance effect to modulate the selected parameter (TVF Cato Pitch Amplide ete Jon talline lvoe seh oe cone 2 the afenouch eet on otter keyboard instuments tm the Bender ovale oan the left orrigh and keep pushing iin te same destin to tigger te otek 4 Setfets and tvo-band equalizer Apart fom the Choris and Reverb effects, the G-80 is lo equiped wih ily progame Imuble Delo eet ad a vo band equalizer -F 64eoice polyphony, 32-part multtnbral ‘The ound source of your G-800 is Gt-oice polyghone with dynamic voiealcation, gv ing you al the mascal redom you need to seund preston stags orathone Ir ussd eed mda, your G-800 can playback as many a 32 MIDI pas atin or fall eee tal arageren 1 note keyboard with weighted synthesize ation You wil el ight at nome onthe 76-aote keyboard, Thanks to its modestly weighed setion, is touch spy supers >.