MR-200 – Owner’s Manual
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You can also work “the other way round”
:
suppose you want to mute tracks 1~3 and
5~16, to hear the melody (track 4) in isola-
tion. The quickest way to do so would be as
follows:
• Press TRACK
[ORGAN]
.
→
Tracks 12, 13,
14, 15, and 16 are off (
Org∞
)
• Press TRACK
[OTHERS]
.
→
Tracks 1, 2, 3…
11 are off (
Oth∞
)
• Select “
Tr4
” and press
[VALUE]
.
Track 4 is on again (
4„
)
You can mute as many tracks as you like. If
you mute the Tempo track, tempo changes
contained in the song are no longer exe-
cuted. This also means that the tempo is no
longer reset when you press
[RESET¥|√]
.
Muting the Master track only makes sense if
you do not want certain settings of the
receiving instrument (organ stop settings,
effects, tuning, etc.) to change. This is useful
if you want to try out other organ registra-
tions or synthesizer settings.
E
Start playback of the selected song by press-
ing the
[PLAY¥®]
button.
Repeat the above to once again activate the
muted tracks.
Using a footswitch
The MR-200 allows you to use an optional
Roland DP-2, DP-6, or BOSS FS-5U foot-
switch for starting/stopping playback. Such
a footswitch needs to be connected to the
FOOT SWITCH socket on the rear panel.
Press it once to start playback, and again to
stop. If the
[REC≈∏]
button flashes while the
MR-200 is stopped, pressing the footswitch
once will start recording. Pressing it again
will stop the recording session.
Additional recording functions
Recording to a specific track
There may be times when the recording pro-
cedures described on pages 18 and 20 erase
tracks you had already recorded and did not
want to lose.
The “
All
”, “
Org
” and “
Oth
” options
indeed select all assigned tracks for record-
ing (1~16, 12~16, or 1~11 by default) –
even if no data are received on certain chan-
nels. And all tracks are “re-recorded”, so that
some tracks may contain “nothing” after an
additional recording pass.
Here is an example: suppose you recorded a
new piece using the “
Org
” option (short
for “organ”, meaning that the data of the
manuals and the pedalboard are recorded).
After listening to your piece, you decide to
redo the bass part (pedalboard), while the
parts of the two manuals should be kept and
played back during your new recording of
the bass part. The obvious option would be
to once again work with “
Org
”. But that is
not how the MR-200 works: that option
would replace the manual parts (GREAT
and SWELL) with “nothing”. The proper
procedure for this approach is to only select
track 14 for recording.
This also applies to other tracks (and other
instruments).
The MR-200’s track numbers refer to the MIDI
channels the tracks receive on. If you select an indi-
vidual track (1 2, 3,… or 16), you must set the
transmission (TX) channel of your external key-
board to match the number of the selected track(s).
A
Connect the organ or keyboard instrument
to the MR-200’s MIDI sockets (see
page 15).
B
Load the song you want to change or sup-
plement with new parts.
See pages 17 and 38.
