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Page 1: ...IV 200 a OFF ON POWER Thank you and congratulations on your choice of the BOSS SP 202 Dr Sample Beforeusing this unit carefully read the sections entitled USING THE UNIT SAFELY and IMPORTANT NOTES page 2 3 page 17 These sections provide important information concerning the proper operation of the unit Additionally in order to feel assured that you have gained a good grasp of every feature provided...

Page 2: ...an enclosed vehicle near a heating duct on top of heat generating equipment or are Damp e g baths washrooms on wet floors or are Humid or are Dusty or are Subject to high levels of vibration Do not attempt to repair the unit or replace parts f within it except when this manual provides specif Y ic instructions directing you to do so Refer all ser vicing to your dealer or qualified Roland service p...

Page 3: ...onnectthe AC adaptor o and all cords coming fromexternal devices Never handle the AC adaptor body or its plugs t with wet hands when plugging into or unplugging Y from an outlet or this unit Never climb on top of nor place heavy objects on t the unit Y Try to prevent cords and cables from becoming Ji entangled Also all cords and cables should be placed so they are out ofthe reachofchildren Wheneve...

Page 4: ...ys Editing Viewing and changing the BPMvalue after sampling 25 Deleting an individual sample 25 Deleting all samples 25 Automatically starting sampling Auto Sampling 23 Hi Fi sampling I Longsampling Sampling Grade 22 Sampling from a CD line recording 21 Sampling from a microphone 20 Section 2 Sampling Maximum polyphony and note priority 19 Calculating BPM tempo 18 Mixing samples with the microphon...

Page 5: ...Time Stretch function that changes the tempo without affecting the pitch ideal for break beats two types of filter that are indispens able for Techno and a ring modulator that is even more effective when used on human voice The filter and ring modulator can also be applied to the sound from an external input Six powerful types of effects are built in Smart media optional can be used to allow even ...

Page 6: ...ring sampling these set the BPM tempo If you already know the BPM you can use the 1 A buttons to input the numerical value If you do not know the tempo and wish to input it as you listen to the phrase to be sampled press the TAP pad in time with the phrase S BPM display Normally this indicates the BPM tempo value of the sam ple It can also display the remaining available sampling time 4 Display Th...

Page 7: ...m internal memory It is also possible to use card banks C D to record long samples that the internal memory could not accommo date 20 Source mix switch SOURCEMIX When this switch is ON the sounds of the samples and the external input microphone or line in will be mixed and out put 19 Headphone iack PHONES A set of headphones can be connected here to hear the same sound as the line outputs The jack...

Page 8: ...our external equipment AC adaptor Audio cables MIDI cables stereo head phones and microphone are not included These can be purchased separately at your dealer To prevent malfunction and or damage to speakers or other devices always turn down the volume and turn off the power on all devices before makingany connec tions Connections 8 When this occurs replacethe battery immediately The contents of t...

Page 9: ...0tttHOH t3 c J c J E EJEJ88BEJ J EJ JE3 _DJ C EJ G l tl c Microphone Cr to an AC outlet AC adaptor PSA series Stereo headphones CD player WWW WWW Audio set I amplified speaker etc IQ IQI __ r m e tc fi LINE IN c 111 I I MIDI OUT j 2 Audio cable MIDI cable ...

Page 10: ... will not oper ate during this time Never tum off the power while the decimal points are blinking 0r SP a 12 l IIIIK T8 CClilTIIOL wEJBB 1 11 a 1 00 oa EIDSS 4 Rotate the VOLUME knob to adjust the SP 202 s volume 3 Tum on the power of your amp mixer etc decimal pointsblink 2 Tum the SP 202 s power switch ON The BPMdisplay will indicate 202 forseveral seconds The decimalpoints will also blink 1 Bef...

Page 11: ...epairs Important data should always be backed up on a Memory card SmartMedia or written down on paper when possible During repairs due care is taken to avoid the loss of data However in certain cases such as when circuitry related to memory itself is out of order we regret that it may not be possible to restore the data and Roland assumes no lia bility concerning such loss of data For everyday cle...

Page 12: ... will cause malfunctions 4 After verifying that you hear the sound try press ing pads 2 8 as well If pressing a pad does not produce sound make sure that bank A is selected BANKA is lit If a different bank is selected press the BANKINT A B button to switch to bank A 3 Raise the SP 202 s VOLUME knob appropriately and while pressing pad 1 gradually raise the vol ume of your amp or monitor speaker 2 ...

Page 13: ... you press will light An effect is on when the button is lit and off when it is dark 3 Press a pad to sound the sample to which you wish to apply an effect 2 Raise the SP 202 s VOLUME knob appropriately and while pressing pad 1 8 gradually raise the volume of your amp or monitor speaker 1 Tum the power switch ON 2 3 J c J J c J c i lllJJk MNK Ell EJEl8EJI AJ 11 CID I EJ E3 _ UW IIL J 11201 E EJ B ...

Page 14: ... the CD sound press the SAMPLING START STOP button The RECbutton will light and sampling will start 4 Adjust the sampling level Start playback of the CD and rotate the REC LEVEL knob so that the PEAKindicator lights occasionally Preparations for sampling are now complete Stop the CD player and place it in playback standby mode If you now decide not to sample press the CANCELbut ton The RECbutton w...

Page 15: ... is a prob lem on page 34 6 Release the SOURCE pad and the sound from the microphone will no longer be heard S Press the RING MOD button once again to make it go dark and the effect will no longer apply In the same way go ahead and try FILTER1 and 2 4 Press the RING MOD button to make it light The ring modulator will apply to the sound from the microphone producing an effect as if a robot were spe...

Page 16: ...ing If you insert a card which has not been used by the SP 202 i e not formatted by the SP 202 and press the BANK CARD CJD button CJD REC will blink If you then press the RECbutton the card will be formatted Do not turn off the power or remove the card while format ting is in progress When a card is formatted the data in the card will be erased If a memory card is not inserted into the slot it is ...

Page 17: ...o low you can adjust the input levelaccording to If noise is a prob lem on page 34 4 The external input will be heard as long as you press the SOURCE pad If GATE is lit the sound will be heard only while you press the SOURCEpad and it will be silenced when you release the pad the pad will go dark If TRIGGER is lit pressing the SOURCE pad will alter nate between sound pad lit and silence pad dark G...

Page 18: ...ythm so that the corresponding BPMvalue tempo will be calculated and displayed You can calculated the BPMvalue when the BPM value is 40 200 When the BPM value is less or more than that the value indication will not change ICalculating BPM tempo You can also adjust the volume of the microphone or external input by rotating the CONTROL knob while holding down the CANCEL button 9 If you wish to adjus...

Page 19: ...Normal playback Reverse playback Time stretch Source pad STEREO Memory card MONO STEREO Internal memory MONO STEREO Number of voices used The SP 202can play up to four notes simultaneously Using an effect or a stereo sample wilJ occupy two or more notes of this capability This means that in some cases there will fewer than four notes available For details refer to the following table which shows t...

Page 20: ...ght Even if you sample with a setting of STEREO the same sound will be recorded for both L and R if the input is monaural In this case the sound will be the same as if you had sampled using MONO but it will use two notes of polyphony 6 Presspad 2 5 Pressthe BANKINT A 8 button to make B light If at this point you wish to stop sampling press the CANCELbutton The RECbutton will go dark 4 Pressthe SAM...

Page 21: ...A B button to make B light 5 Press the SAMPLING START STOP button The REC button will blink and the SP 202 will enter standby mode If at this point you wish to stop sampling press the CANCELbutton The RECbutton will go dark 4 Turn the power switch ON 3 Set the SOURCE SELECT switch to LINE 2 Turn on the power of your CD player and put the included CD in play standby mode 1 Connect your CD player pa...

Page 22: ...reo or fromstereo to mono 13 Pressthe pad 3 which went dark and the sound that you just sampled will playback 12 When you wish to stop sampling press the SAM PLINGSTART STOPbutton Sampling will end and the blinking pad will godark The BPM will automaticallybe calculatedand displayed accordingto the time length that was sampled If BPM was input this will be the time between the Start and Endpoints ...

Page 23: ...Sampling Grade setting 12 Press the pad which went dark and the sound that you just sampled will playback 11 When you wish to stop sampling press the SAM PLING START STOP button Sampling will end and the blinking pad will go dark If you press the blinking pad i e the one currently being sampled instead of pressing the SAMPLING START STOP button sampling will end and the cur rently sampled sound wi...

Page 24: ... following proce dure 12 Press the pad which went dark and the sound that you just sampled will playback 11 When you wish to stop sampling press the SAM PLING START STOPbutton Sampling will end and the blinking pad will go dark The tempo will automatically be calculated and dis played according to the time length of the sample Refer to page 25 Viewing and changing the BPM value after sampling If y...

Page 25: ...nd D will blink 1 Hold down the CANCEL button and press the DELbutton The DELbutton will blink 1 1 I c i c i c J c 3 il EJEJEaEl IL 2 J EJ oaa J JE If you delete all samples on the memory card the data in the backup area refer to page 35 will be automatically deleted So please checkthe data carefullybefore deleting The PITCH settings and MIDIsettings will also be delet ed at the same time Youcan d...

Page 26: ...cted immediately ______ I I 1 I I LOOP 2 Press the LOOP ONE SHOT button to make LOOP light 1 Press the pad which contains the sample that you wish to playback as a loop I e specify the cur rent pad The pad will light and the sample will sound I repeated I If you have sampled a phrase of several measures and wish to play it back repeatedly use Loop Playback IPlaying a phrase repeatedly Loop Playbac...

Page 27: ...BPM value either by pressing the Y A buttons or by pressing the TAP pad four times or more in time with the tempo START I ENDPOINT E1 2 At the location where you wish to set the Start Point press the MARKbutton The MARKbutton will blink and the BPM display will indicate 1 Press the pad to which the sample you wish to edit is assigned Specifythe current pad Thepad will light and the sample will sou...

Page 28: ...le will sound portion which plays back J Truncate End point Start point unwanted unwanted End of sample I Beginning of sample I When you specify the Start End Points page 27 28 unused portions of waveform data will occur By deleting Truncating these portions you can make more efficient use of memory IDeleting unwantedportions Truncate If the setting was not made as desired press the lit MARKbutton...

Page 29: ...h time you press TRIGGER GATE you will alternate between Gate Playback and Trigger Playback If ONE SHOTis lit playback will automatically stop and the pad will go dark when the end of the sample is reached even if you continue pressing the pad _____ II _ __ I __I _ __ I I GATE II 2 Pressthe TRIGGER GATEbutton to make GATE light 1 Press the pad which contains the sample for which you wish to select...

Page 30: ... a performance The changed current pad will be treated as the last played note 2 I I I I I I CURRENT PAD IREMAJNI 1 Press the REMAIN button The current pad will continue blinking while you hold down the REMAINbutton Settings for the current pad the pad which last began play back are shown in the display If you have pressed two or more pads to play samples you can use the following proce dure to ch...

Page 31: ...d by the current pad However if the next pressed pad does not use an effect the effect specified for the previous pad will be valid At this time the display will show the settings of the next pressed pad the current pad and the effectbutton that was specified by the previous pad will go dark Rotating the CONTROLknob will not change anything If the Sampling Grade is Standard or LO FI1 or 2 the effe...

Page 32: ...t changing the tempo IPikh change withoutaffecting the tempo Pitch ControlandTime Stretch Time Stretch cannot be used in the following situations On stereo samples On samples that were recorded to banks C 0 When reverse playback is used Depending on the specified tempo the sound may appear to sway Time Stretch can be specified independently for each sample 3 Rotatethe CONTROL knob to adjust the te...

Page 33: ...acter IUsing a filter Delaycannotbe used in the followingsituations On stereo samples On samples that were recorded to banks CID When reverse playback is used 3 Rotate the CONTROL knob to adjust the delay time The delay time can be adjusted in the following 13 steps relative to the BPMvalue tempo 64th note dotted 64th note 32nd note dotted 32nd note 16th note dotted 16th note 8th note dotted 8th n...

Page 34: ... the CD etc 3 Press the SOURCE pad to make the pad light 2 If you wish to apply the effect to the mic input set the SOURCE SELECT switch to MIC If you wish to apply the effect to the line input LINE IN set the SOURCE SELECT switch to LINE Then tum the power switch ON 1 Tum the SOURCE MIX switch OFF Filter 1 or 2 or the ring modulator only one of these at a time can be applied to the external input...

Page 35: ...s turned on with a memory card already inserted C1 D8 Backup area Sampling data 1 More sampling data Sampling Backup Backup Backup data area area area C1 D8 1 2 3 If you record long samples to card memory the backup area will be correspondingly decreased but you can increase the backup area by recording short samples More backup areas Inaddition to the 16 samples of banks C D a 2 Mbyte mem ory car...

Page 36: ... begin While this button is lit do not tum the power off or remove the card from the slot When saving has been finished the REC button will go dark In the case of a card to which you are saving data for the first time it will only be possible to select I and pad 1 will blink when you press it For the second and subsequent Saveoperations to a card the pads will light to indicate the corresponding a...

Page 37: ...here Write protect stickers are included with SmartMedia Byaffixing a sticker to the SmartMedia card you can prohib it writing and erasing of data To avoid accidental erasure of data from SmartMedia which contains important data we recommend that you affix a write protect sticker IProtectingdata on a memory card ...

Page 38: ... SP 202is shipped its pads correspond to MIDI note numbers as shown below INormal use The MIDI channel setting is remembered even when the power is turned OFF Example To select channel 10 hold down the HOLD pad together with pad number 2 and turn the power ON 2 2 If you wish to select a channel in the range of 9 16 tum the power ON while holding down the HOLD pad together with pad 1 8 that is eigh...

Page 39: ...nds Un the case of Trigger Playback When playing the SP 202 s samples from an external MIDI device the timing at which Note messages must transmitted from the external MIDI device will be different depending on whether you are using Trigger Playback or Gate Playback to play the samples even if you wish to play the samples for the same length of time INotes when using MIDI 2 Hold down the SOURCE pa...

Page 40: ... sampling level Start playback on the CD and rotate the REC LEVEL knob to adjust the level so that PEAKlights occasionally 6 Press the BANK INT A B button or if you are using a memory card the CARDCID button and a pad to specify the pad and bank to which the sampled sound will be assigned The selected pad will blink Even if you press a pad to which a sample is already assigned it will not blink If...

Page 41: ... let s edit the settings so that break beats will be easy to play Refer to the following table and specifyhow the break beats will sound IPlaying break beats This completes creation for your break beats The following section will explain how to use these to perform 4 Repeat steps 1 3 to adjust the tempo of each sam ple that you wish to use Even if the BPM display value is the same there may be som...

Page 42: ... of voices that can be played simultaneously will decrease because of the additional processing that is required As far as the available number of voices using an effect is equivalent to playing more notes simultaneously The table Number of voices used on page 19 will tell you whether or not an effect can be used and the number of voic es that will be available Effects do not work ITroubleshooting...

Page 43: ... changed 95 127 Number True Voice Velocity Note ON x 0 v O or 1 127 Note OFF x x After Key s x x Touch Ch s x x Pitch Bend x x x x Control Change Prog x x Change True System Exclusive x x System Song Pos x x Common Song Sel x x Tune x x System Clock x x Real Time Commands x x All sound off x 0 Aux Local ON OFF x x Message All Notes OFF x x Active Sense x x Reset x x Notes Date Jun 28 1995 Version ...

Page 44: ...g Frequency HI Fl 31 25 kHz STAND ARD 15 63 kHz LO FI 1 7 81 kHz Expected battery life under continuous use Alkaline 8 hours Thesefigures will vary depending 011 the actual conditionsof use Current Draw 200mA Power Supply DC 9 V Dry Batteries LR6 AA type x 6 AC Adaptor BOSS PSA Series Optional Memory Card Samples 16 2 banks Backup 3 S2M 5 7 S4M 5 Maximum Sampling Time Internal 4 minutes 20 seconds...

Page 45: ...ton 6 Sampling setting buttons 6 sampling start level 23 sampling time 24 Save 36 Source Mix 17 Source mix switch 7 AC adaptor jack 7 Auto Sampling 23 backup 35 backup area 35 bank 16 Bank buttons 7 BPM 18 25 BPM display 6 BPM setting buttons 6 break beats 40 Built in microphone 7 Cancel button 7 CD l Control knob 6 current pad 6 16 30 delay 33 Delete button 6 Deleting 25 Deleting all samples 25 D...

Page 46: ...46 MEMO ...

Page 47: ... If the BPM displaybecomes darker than normal the battery capacityhas nearly run down Please replace the battery as soon as possible Never turnoffthe power and remove a memory card in the follow ing situations While a sample is being deleted the DEL button is lit While Truncate is being performed the DEL buttonis lit While saving data to a memory card the REC buttonis lit While loading data from a...

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Page 49: ...nd can radiate radio frequency energy and if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions may cause harmful Interference to radio communications However there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on the us...

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