Owner's Manual - Roland

Editing Songs3. Turn the VALUE dial or press [DEC] to select “MUTE.”Note that if you save a song with a Phrase track muted in theStandard MIDI File format, that Phrase track’s data will not besaved. If you save a song that has a muted Phrase track in theMRC Pro song format, the mute status of the track will also besaved.If you set the tempo track (Tempo) “Status” to “MUTE,” thetempo track will be muted. If tempo changes have beenrecorded in a song, but you want to play the song at a fixedtempo, you can mute the tempo track.Assigning Markers (LocatePositions) to a SongMarkers can be assigned to any location in a song. These are calledLocate Positions. Normally, locations in a song are indicated as“measure-beat-tick,” but a locate position is also displayed as anabsolute time of “hours:minutes:seconds:frames.”Moving to a Locate PositionUse the following procedure to change the song location to a LocatePosition.1. Access the Locate window.2. If [F7 (Set)] is lit red, press it to turn off the illumination.3. Press [F3 (Jump1)] – [F6 (Jump4)].You will move to the specified locate position.You can hold down [SHIFT] and press [BWD] to jump to thepreceding location position, or hold down [SHIFT] and press[FWD] to jump to the next locate position.Specifying the Area of a Song thatwill Repeat (Loop Points)When using Loop Play or Loop Recording, you can use the looppoints you specify here to specify the repeated area, as an alternativeto repeating the specified number of measures.It is not possible to assign a locate position to a pattern.Assigning a Locate PositionUp to four locate positions can be assigned in each song.1. Press [SONG EDIT].It is not possible to assign a loop point to a pattern.1. Press [SONG EDIT].2. Press [F5 (Loop / Locate)].The Loop window appears.fig.19-006_502. Press [F5 (Loop / Locate)].The Loop window appears.3. Press [F2 (Locate)].fig.19-005_50The Locate window appears.4. Press [F7 (Set)]; then press [F3 (Set1) – [F6 (Set4)] to assignthe current location of the song as a locate position.You can assign a locate position in this way even while listeningto the song play back.* You can also adjust the locate position by moving the cursor to the“measure” or “beat” value of the locate number and turning theVALUE dial or pressing [INC]/[DEC] to set each value.3. Move the cursor to the desired parameter, and turn theVALUE dial or press [INC]/[DEC] to make the setting.• RepeatSelect the number of repeats (1–99). If you want repetition tocontinue until you press [STOP], set this to “INF.”• Start PointSpecify the location at which repetition is to begin.If you press [F5 (Set Start)], the current location of the song will beset as the starting location.• End PointSpecify the location at which repetition will end. The locationyou specify here will not be included in the repeated area.If you press [F6 (Set End)], the current location of the song willbe set as the ending location.4. If you press [F7 (Loop)] to light it into red, looping will beturned on.179