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4. Real-time Playability

Features

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Playback with Audio/MIDI Files – Play with your favorite MP3 songs

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Center Cancel – Transform your GW-8 into a karaoke machine

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Creating Your Playlist - Play your audio/midi files in order

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Playing Your Playlist on the GW-8

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Performance – Saving your favorite settings

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Analog Modify Knobs – Use the GW-8 like an analog synthesizer

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D Beam – Move your hands!

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Melody Intelligence – Play harmony with just one finger

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Summary of Contents for Workstation GW-8

Page 1: ...1 39 Quick Guidebook 2008 Copyright Roland Corporation...

Page 2: ...Styles 15 The Backing Types of the GW 8 16 Try the Music Styles 17 Variations of One Music Style 18 Sync Start Stop 19 One Touch 20 Lock 21 Inside the Music Styles 22 Part View 23 Style Converter and...

Page 3: ...uccess around the world The GW 8 has other incredible features like an audio player with Center Cancel controller knobs to manipulate the sound in real time Performances to save your settings and much...

Page 4: ...Function Register your favorite Tones 8 Numeric Buttons Select Tones and Music Styles quickly 9 Keyboard Mode Choose Single Split or Dual mode 10 Key Touch Adjust the keyboard sensitivity 11 Key Scale...

Page 5: ...ctric Piano with classic Reverb Play softly and hard to listen to the variations in the sound KBD ORGAN BANK Clavinet Harpsichord Bell Mallet Organ Accordion and Harmonica 0135 VKHold4Speed Great Hamm...

Page 6: ...mpet trombone and sax SYNTH BANK Hard and Soft Lead Techno Synth Pulsating and Other Synth 0434 DC Triangle Solo Lead with Delay 0432 Juno Lead Classic lead from JUNO series PERC SFX BANK Percussion B...

Page 7: ...7 39 TIPS Press the bank button and press ENTER button to see the list of sounds and the sound categories from this bank Some banks have two or more categories To choose it use...

Page 8: ...ounds very quickly See how to register your favorite sounds 1 Select the tone you desire 2 Hold down the button FAVORITE ON OFF and press one of 0 9 buttons to register the sound You can register up t...

Page 9: ...buttons up to the numerical value of the TONE 2 Press the button NUMERIC All of the TONE SELECT buttons will light 3 Use the TONE SELECT NUMERIC buttons to enter the desired digit 0 zero 0 zero 1 one...

Page 10: ...nd at time 2 SPLIT Plays one sound at the right side Upper and other sound at the left side Lower 3 DUAL Plays two sounds at the same time simultaneously When the lights in both of SPLIT and DUAL butt...

Page 11: ...ns and select one of the options below LIGHT The best option for the player who doesn t want to play with a lot of force Even when you play softly you can hear the sound at a good volume MEDIUM In the...

Page 12: ...se pitch you want to adjust 3 When you ve finished making settings press KEY SCALE button once again to close the window Let s see how to choose the Arabic Scale 1 Press KEY SCALE so the button is lit...

Page 13: ...ase the octave You can raise or lower the pitch by up to four octaves Here s how to change the octave on GW 8 1 First choose if you want to change the octave for the Lower or Upper parts Use and to se...

Page 14: ...other musician plays in D major With the GW 8 you don t need to change your key just transpose the GW 8 to so that it sounds in D major See how to transpose the key using the example below 1 Hold down...

Page 15: ...Styles Features Page The Backing Types of the GW 8 16 Try the Music Styles 17 Variations of One Music Style 18 Sync Start Stop 19 One Touch 20 Lock 21 Inside the Music Styles 22 Part View 23 Style Co...

Page 16: ...play chords with your left hand because this live band needs your command to know which chords to play 2 SONG A song can be played back You can record your own song or play back MIDI files SMF Format...

Page 17: ...one of the GW 8 s Music Styles 050Motown 1 Press the STYLE button 2 Press the POP ROCK bank button 3 To select the style press the NUMERIC button and digit 0 zero 5 five 0 zero and press the ENTER but...

Page 18: ...NTRO 3 Intro with most of the instruments of the style INTRO 4 The complete instrumentation of the Intro MAIN 1 Basic variation of the style MAIN 2 Main 1 with a few more instruments MAIN 3 Good to pr...

Page 19: ...in stand by to play you just need to play a note on the lower part of the keyboard to start the style The Sync Stop is good to use for some kicks when you are playing With Sync Stop selected you need...

Page 20: ...te sound If you select a Music Style and are unsure which tone to select you just need to press ONE TOUCH and a great combination will be selected automatically See how to use the One Touch 1 Select t...

Page 21: ...rent Music Styles and Tones saved in each one With Lock you can change the Performance without changing the tones or the Music Styles See how to use the Lock function 1 Press and hold the LOCK button...

Page 22: ...of one man band The GW 8 has a lot of fresh new styles to play any type of music See the structure of one of the GW 8 s Music Styles For each Music Style GW 8 has eight tracks for playing back styles...

Page 23: ...sic Style s parts See how to use the Part View 1 With the STYLE button turned on press the PART VIEW button You will see the Perform Mixer screen 2 Use to select the part whose settings you want chang...

Page 24: ...her software It s necessary to create three files one for major chords one for minor chords and the other for seventh chords The name of these files should be style name _m mid for Major Chords style...

Page 25: ...You need to fill the empty spaces with information about the measures bars You have to provide information about all the style s variations Intro Main Fill and Ending Sequencing Software Style Convert...

Page 26: ...form your GW 8 into a karaoke machine 28 Creating Your Playlist Play your audio midi files in order 29 Playing Your Playlist on the GW 8 32 Performance Saving your favorite settings 34 Analog Modify K...

Page 27: ...epts WAV AIFF 8 16 24bits 44 1kHz MP3 32 320kbps 44 1kHz MID SMF format 0 or 1 See how to play audio midi files 1 Connect the USB flash memory with audio midi files 2 Press the USB MEMORY PLAYER butto...

Page 28: ...button The mid range frequencies of the audio will disappear Remember that all songs have are mixed differently and not all songs have vocals that are in the center of the mix This means that the GW...

Page 29: ...your audio files in your favorite order You can create your list using the Playlist Editor software See how to create your list 1 On your computer collect the songs you want to use 2 Open the Playlis...

Page 30: ...Create a name for your new Playlist 6 Drag the songs from the PLAYLIST LIBRARY to your NEW LIBRARY 7 Now choose the desired order of the songs with the mouse 8 Connect the USB flash memory to your co...

Page 31: ...N to select the USB flash memory from the list of drives 10 On TOOL click on TRANSFER TO USB MEMORY and click OK The files will be transferred 11 Use the Safely Remove Hardware on your computer to dis...

Page 32: ...onnect the USB flash memory with your audio files 2 Press the USB MEMORY PLAYER button You will see the following screen 3 Use to select PLAYLIST and press the ENTER button You will see your Playlist...

Page 33: ...LAYLIST SELECT screen press to select P INFO and press the ENTER button 2 Use to select Chain Play and press the ENTER button 3 Press the EXIT button to go back to PLAYLIST SELECT 4 Press the START ST...

Page 34: ...rformance is very convenient for live situations because you can change sounds and settings very quickly See how to save one performance 1 Make all of your adjustments on the GW 8 Tones Music Styles E...

Page 35: ...sness to the sound The knob adjusts the Chorus level FILTER Change the color of the sound CUTOFF RESONANCE Changes the spectral components of the sound Turn the knob toward the right to brighten the s...

Page 36: ...ere are some good functions for the D Beam Solo Synth plays a monophonic synthesizer sound It s good for electronic music Drum Roll it s a classic snare drum roll Move your hand closer to increase the...

Page 37: ...lower half of the keyboard See how to select Melody Intelligence 1 Press MELODY INTELLIGENCE so that the button is lit 2 Press and hold MELODY INTELLIGENCE and turn the VALUE DIAL to select the Melod...

Page 38: ...rd 4 Intros 4 Mains 4 Fill Ins and 4 Endings With all of these variations your arrangements will be more realistic Audio Player With the GW 7 you can only play SMF files not audio The GW 8 is able to...

Page 39: ...SMF format Afterwards you can convert this SMF file using the GW 8 Style Converter software When finishing you must save the converted file STL file to USB flash memory and load the Music Style into...

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