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Once you have finished the song name editing, confirm it with the OK soft

key (in order to save the modified name), or leave the change with the EXIT soft
key, returning to the RENAME SONGS menu.

In order to leave the RENAME SONGS menu, use the EXIT soft key.

5.7

ERASE SONG

This function allows you to permanently erase a song from the hard disk.

To enable the ERASE SONG function:

Push the key UTILITY,

Position the cursor on ERASE SONG ,

Push the soft key SELECT.

The display will show a list of all the songs available on the hard disk (they

are divided in pages and can be scrolled up and down either with the CURSOR keys
or with the PAGE/VALUE Dial7. These are the active soft keys:

With the CURSOR keys (or with the PAGE/VALUE Dial) choose the song you

want to erase and then push the soft key SELECT; a progressive number will appear
next to that song.
2.

Repeat the sequence described in point 1 to select all the songs that you

wish to erase from the hard disk.
3.

To leave the ERASE mode without effecting any changes press EXIT,

otherwise go on and press the soft key ERASE.

5. U

TILITY

PAGE: ØØ5

ERASE SONGS

EXIT

SELECT

STREETS
VAGABOND
WE_ARE
WLAMAMMA
WLAMAMMA

YESTRDAY

ERASE

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Страница 1: ...Megabeat One Megabeat One All in one Hard Disk Midi Player User Manual ...

Страница 2: ...Megabeat One Megabeat One All in one Hard Disk Midi Player User Manual ...

Страница 3: ... 15 3 4 Transport page 15 4 OPERATIVE MODES page 16 4 1 Highlighted Song and selected Song page 16 4 2 Soft Keys page 17 4 3 SINGLE PLAY Mode page 17 4 3 1 Selecting Deselecting a Song page 20 4 3 2 Displaying texts and chords page 21 4 3 3 Play Stop Continue page 22 4 3 4 Adjusting volumes effects transposition time ADJUST page 23 4 4 GROUP PLAY Mode page 27 4 4 1 Choosing a Group page 30 4 4 2 P...

Страница 4: ...ge 45 5 4 1 Midi Clock Out page 47 5 4 2 Midi Input page 47 5 4 3 Midi Song Sel page 48 5 4 4 Lyrics Sysex page 49 5 5 SONGS BACKUP page 50 5 6 RENAME SONG page 51 5 7 ERASE SONG page 53 5 8 MIDI DATA DUMP page 54 5 9 PC DATA DUMP page 56 5 10 DISK UTILITIES page 56 5 10 1 FLOPPY Disk Format page 57 5 10 2 HARD Disk Recover page 58 5 10 3 HARD Disk Format page 59 6 OPERATING SYSTEM Updating page 6...

Страница 5: ...MEGABEAT ONE USER MANUAL ...

Страница 6: ...f the Midi File type 1 greater reliability concerning both duration and protection from any reading writing errors possibility of containing the whole repertoire in a single Megabeat One without looking every time among dozens of floppy disks for the one containing the desired song possibility of organizing the repertoire in different song lists without any number limitation in fact using a normal...

Страница 7: ...tive system stored on hard disk which can be updated through a floppy disk and restored on the hard disk thus avoiding the replacement of any hardware component Megabeat One offers also the possibility of installing an internal GM GS sound generator wave table audio card which makes it the most versatile and compact integrated system ever existed for the reproduction of musical bases Could we forg...

Страница 8: ...o you feel satisfied with your new purchase We are sure you do Therefore we congratulate you Megabeat One will soon become an irreplaceable collaborator in your profession and a friend for the piano bar a party with your friends or simply an instrument for your own amusement WARNING Some keyboards i e the Roland E 86 don t handle correctly the midi message All notes off Therefore starting and stop...

Страница 9: ...n 5 Exit button 6 Soft Keys buttons 7 Play button 8 Stop button 9 Floppy disk 10 HD Led hard disk activity 11 Earphone 12 Contrast knob display contrast 13 Volume knob 14 To Digitar interface 9 MEGABEAT ONE USER MANUAL UTILITY PLAY STOP PHONES CONTRAST VOLUME TO DIGITAR H DISK SOFT KEYS EXIT CURSOR VALUE PAGE CHARLIE LAB M E G A B E A T O N E VERSION XX HARD DISK MIDI PLAYER 3 2 6 4 5 9 10 7 1 8 ...

Страница 10: ...ACK PANEL 15 Audio Output Left 16 Audio Output Right 17 Foot Switch 18 Midi In 19 Midi Out Thru 20 AC adapter jack 21 Power On Off 22 Expansion Slot 1 23 Expansion Slot 2 10 2 Connections and Commands L R ON LINE OUT FOOT SWITCH INPUT OUTPUT 12Vac IN MIDI 23 22 ...

Страница 11: ...earphone to the output PHONES 11 on the front panel you will be able to monitor the audio reproduction without using any external amplifier NOTE The VOLUME knob 13 on the front panel adjusts the audio level of the PHONES output and of the audio outputs at the same time But if your Megabeat One has not an internal audio card the audio connections should be attached to the sound system used for the ...

Страница 12: ...tor of the Megabeat One by means of the MIDI IN connection please check the position of the MIDI INPUT parameter in the MIDI SETUP Menu which can be read by pushing the UTILITY button then set the parameter on Auto or on External 2 4 DIGITAR CONNECTION Megabeat One has an inbuilt interface for the connection to DIGITAR The TO DIGITAR socket 14 is at the bottom of the front panel of Megabeat One on...

Страница 13: ...TION If you have a normally closed or a normally open pedal like those used as sustain pedal for electronic keyboards connect it to the pedal jack 17 on the back panel of Megabeat One After having adjusted the PEDAL POLARITY parameter as it is described in chapter 5 UTILITY Global settings the pedal can be used to START STOP the songs it has the same function as the PLAY STOP button on the front p...

Страница 14: ...e display turn the CONTRAST knob clockwise in order to increase the contrast or turn the knob anticlockwise to decrease the contrast Disappearing CONTRAST and VOLUME knobs The CONTRAST and the VOLUME 13 knobs are of the disappearing type i e they are usually hidden in the chassis of Megabeat One in order to avoid accidental changes of the volume or of the contrast To pull the CONTRAST knob out sim...

Страница 15: ... displayed Using the CURSOR buttons 3 you can go on song by song after the last song of a page the next page will be displayed After the last song in alphabetical order contained in the last available page on the hard disk the display will return to PAGE 001 Songs for Digitar If the letter D appears on the left side of the song s title this means that the song is set to pilot the Digitar Megabeat ...

Страница 16: ... song and you have already connected the Digitar you can strum the Digitar strings and accompany the song which is being performed N B If you have connected the Digitar when the song was just playing the settings of the Digitar s parameters couldn t be correct In fact these settings are usually sent by the first measure of the song 3 4 TRANSPORT Your Megabeat One has been specially equipped in ord...

Страница 17: ...llow you to position the cursor on one of the item which can be selected An example when the titles of the songs listed on a page of the SINGLE PLAY menu are visualized on the display you can highlight the desired song by means of the CURSOR buttons Now the highlighted song can be put in PLAY mode by means of the PLAY button 7 or selected by means of the SELECT soft key 6 It is important to unders...

Страница 18: ...s to so many functions as those offered by Megabeat One without muddling the user among a great deal of functions but visualizing on the display only those necessary to the operative mode enabled in that moment 4 3 SINGLE PLAY MODE The functions offered by the SINGLE PLAY mode allows you to choose a single song to be played by means of the PLAY button to visualize texts and chords when stored insi...

Страница 19: ...o access the GROUP PLAY mode described later on LYRICS allows you to access the Lyrics mode to visualize texts and chords as the karaoke SELECT allows you to select the songs to be loaded in the USER GRP NOTE The highest number of songs which can be selected at the same time and loaded into a Group is 48 When Megabeat One in the PLAY position the green led over the PLAY button is on the following ...

Страница 20: ...which has been preset in every song To read the initial values of every song the song has to be already started When a song is stopped by means of the STOP button the following Soft Keys are enabled in the bottom line of the display Compared to the previous case here the ADJUST function has been replaced by 20 4 OPERATIVE MODES PAGE ØØ5 SINGLE PLAY TITLE STREETS VAGABOND WE_ARE WLAMAMMA WLAMAMMA Y...

Страница 21: ... upwards to display the previous page In order to turn over the page more quickly you can use the PAGE VALUE Dial after every click of the knob clockwise the display will show the following page PAGE 001 PAGE 002 after every click anticlockwise the display will show the previous page At this point you can highlight another song by means of the CURSOR buttons and push the SELECT button again to sel...

Страница 22: ...alized on the display when they are stored in the song NOTE 1 Chords are always displayed with little anticipation on the performing time in order to give the performer the time necessary to change the chord It is also possible to have access to the LYRICS mode after a song has been put in PLAY mode 2 Furthermore it is possible to enable and disable the LYRICS mode many times during the performing...

Страница 23: ...tion has disappeared the central soft key maintains the EXIT function previously described The Megabeat One can use two methods to recognize Lyrics and Chords inside a Midi File Metaevents Text and Lyrics System Exclusive Midisoft WordBox format Text and Lyrics stored as System Exclusive are also echoed to external Midi devices through the Midi Out port 4 3 3 PLAY STOP CONTINUE In the SINGLE PLAY ...

Страница 24: ...means of the STOP button if after having stopped the song with the STOP button another song is highlighted pushing the PLAY button the second song will start from the beginning on the contrary pushing the CONTIN soft key the first song will start again from where it had been stopped 4 3 4 ADJUSTING VOLUMES EFFECTS TRANSPOSITION TIME ADJUST To adjust volumes effects transposition and tempo you have...

Страница 25: ...he song s original values are stored For example let s imagine to have a song whose volume in the MIDI channel number 2 has been recorded as follows first measure beat 1 1 volume setting 100 tenth measure beat 10 1 volume setting 110 When a song is being played we ll read value 100 until the tenth measure and value 110 after the tenth measure on the Megabeat One s display near the volume of the MI...

Страница 26: ...ling the ADJUST function the ADJUST page divided into two sections will be displayed CHANNEL VOLUME in the upper part of the display this section is dedicated to the volume settings of the 16 MIDI channels GLOBAL PARAMETERS this section is dedicated to the adjusting of reverberation chorus transposition and tempo CHANNEL VOLUME The upper line shows the parameters In the lower part the volume setti...

Страница 27: ...out by the user NOTE Positioning the cursor on the volume labels of the various MIDI channels the CHANNEL VOLUME ADJUST parameter shows the variation carried out by the user for that particular channel If the user has not carried out any variations or he has enabled the RESTOR function the CHANNEL VOLUME ADJUST parameter is always 000 for all MIDI channels GLOBAL PARAMETERS This section concerns t...

Страница 28: ...MPO position the cursor on the TEMPO parameter value turn the PAGE VALUE Dial to change the displayed value push the SAVE soft key if you want to store the variation NOTE Unlike the other parameters which act in an additive way i e are added to the original parameters stored into a song the TEMPO parameter acts as a multiplicative coefficient on the time settings contained into the song Experiment...

Страница 29: ... other or select and perform separately one or more songs of the same group display song texts and chords if they have been stored inside the song adjust song volumes effects transposition and tempo In order to enable GROUP PLAY mode it is necessary to be in SINGLE PLAY mode and press the GROUPS soft key ENABLED SOFT KEYS If you are in GROUP PLAY mode and you did not previously play any Song or th...

Страница 30: ... group inside the song list you can choose which song you want to perform first When Megabeat One is in PLAY mode the green LED above the PLAY button is on in the display last line the following Soft Keys are active In comparison with what previously described another Soft Key has been enabled which corresponds to the following function ADJUST equivalent to the function described for the SINGLE PL...

Страница 31: ...ways stored in hard disk the USER GRP group is present in RAM SUGGESTION Being present in RAM the USER GRP content is lost when Megabeat One is switched off If you want to save USER GRP on hard disk it is necessary to use the functions of the EDIT GROUP menu in UTILITY mode In order to choose a group just use the CURSOR buttons or the PAGE VALUE Dial to indicate the desired group and then use the ...

Страница 32: ...e performing a song of the group LYRICS and ADJUST soft keys are active when the song is stopped with the STOP button the ADJUST soft key is replaced by the CONTIN soft key 4 4 3 SHOWING THE LIST OF THE GROUP SONGS LIST GROUP In order to see the list of the songs which make up the group just press the LIST soft key The display shows the LIST GROUP first page and the list of the songs belonging to ...

Страница 33: ...of the group In order to return to the GROUP PLAY page just press the EXIT soft key NOTE By pressing the EXIT button placed under the PAGE VALUE Dial you leave GROUP PLAY mode and return to SINGLE PLAY mode 4 4 4 LYRICS AND ADJUST In GROUP PLAY mode LYRICS and ADJUST functions behave in the way previously described for the SINGLE PLAY function In case of LOOP performing with LYRICS or ADJUST funct...

Страница 34: ...is not enabled UTILITY menu functions are COPY SONG to copy songs from floppy disks CD ROM or another external hard disk to the internal hard disk EDIT GROUPS to create copy and edit groups GLOBAL SETUP Megabeat One global set up MIDI SETUP to have access to the MIDI set up menu SONGS BACKUP to copy a song from the hard disk to the floppy disk RENAME SONG to change the name of a song present in th...

Страница 35: ...he function with the SELECT soft key 5 1 COPY SONG LOADING SONGS IN THE HARD DISK This function allows you to make a copy of one or more songs from the floppy disk to the hard disk In order to enable the COPY SONG function 1 press the UTILITY button 2 position the cursor on COPY SONG 3 press the SELECT soft key Once you have chosen the COPY SONG function the display shows the list of the Midi File...

Страница 36: ...ext song Once you have finished the selection just press the COPY soft key the songs are copied into the hard disk and automatically added in alphabetical order to the songs already present in the hard disk Megabeat One automatically creates a Group made up of the songs just copied and gives it a default name DISK nnn The RENAME GROUP function described in the next paragraph is automatically enabl...

Страница 37: ...e same name In this last case the copy is not allowed and the display shows the message SONG ALREADY PRESENT 5 2 EDIT GROUPS CREATE AND MODIFY GROUPS This function allows you to carry out all the editing operations in the groups to create erase modify and change the name of the group In order to have access to the EDIT GROUPS function 1 press the UTILITY button 2 position the cursor on EDIT GROUPS...

Страница 38: ...up is preserved N B The editing operations of a group have no influence on the songs which make up this group for instance if a group is erased all its songs remain unchanged into the hard disk CREATE allows you to create a new group or to duplicate modify an already existing group storing the changes in a new group Before enabling the CREATE function you can choose whether to begin with an existi...

Страница 39: ...group 1 Before pressing the INSERT soft key position the cursor on the song before which you want to insert the new song s 2 Press the INSERT soft key the display shows the list of all the songs present in the hard disk displayed in alphabetical order as in SINGLE PLAY mode The songs which already belong to the group are marked with a progressive number beside the song name 3 In order to add new s...

Страница 40: ...ng message By pressing the YES soft key the song will be removed from the group Vice versa i e choosing the NO soft key the song will be preserved in the group 3 If you want to remove other songs from the group repeat the operations from step 1 to 3 4 Save the changes made to the group with the SAVE soft key SAVE allows you to save the changes made to the group Once you have pressed the SAVE soft ...

Страница 41: ...h the OK soft key in order to save the modified name or leave the change with the EXIT soft key thus returning to the EDIT GROUP menu NEW allows you to create a completely new group i e by clearing the song list shown on the display this operation is the same as using the CREATE function without indicate the name of any existing group EXIT allows you to return to the EDIT GROUPS menu All the chang...

Страница 42: ...in CREATE function IMPORTANT Do not use the EXIT button placed under the PAGE VALUE Dial you will loose all the work you have done After modifying the group with the INSERT command save the changes with the SAVE soft key SAVE allows you to save the changes made to the group Once you have pressed the SAVE soft key the display will show again the EDIT GROUPS menu NOTE Unlike the CREATE function the ...

Страница 43: ... the PAGE VALUE Dial clockwise to increase the selected letter or anticlockwise to decrease the selected letter Then move to the next character with the CURSOR button on the right In order to remove a character from the old name or to insert a new one use the INS or DEL soft keys Once you have finished the group name editing confirm it with the OK soft key in order to save the modified name or lea...

Страница 44: ...CK START function In order to enable the GLOBAL SETUP function 1 press the UTILITY button 2 position the cursor on GLOBAL SETUP 3 press the SELECT soft key The display shows the following page The soft keys are SAVE stores the changes made to the GLOBAL SETUP page CHANGE allows you to change the value of the selected parameter EXIT allows you to return to the UTILITY menu 44 5 UTILITY MEDIA PLAYER...

Страница 45: ...thout saving with the EXIT soft key 5 3 2 PEDAL POLARITY Megabeat One can be connected to a pedal of one of these kinds normally open normally closed With the pedal you can use the START STOP commands If you use a normally open pedal the PEDAL POLARITY parameter must be set TRIGGER Vice versa by using a normally closed pedal the PEDAL POLARITY parameter must be set TRIGGER In order to change the P...

Страница 46: ...g plays at the normal speed selected by the metronomic tempo NOTE When QUICK START is enabled some expanders could have difficulty in processing the information sent to them at a high speed If your expander has an irregular behaviour when QUICK START is enabled e g it looses some Program Changes some Volume settings etc you may disable the parameter QUICK START Disabled In order to set up the QUIC...

Страница 47: ... SETUP function 1 press the UTILITY button 2 position the cursor on MIDI SETUP 3 press the SELECT soft key The display shows the following page The soft keys are SAVE stores the changes made to the MIDI SETUP page CHANGE allows you to change the selected parameter value EXIT allows you to return to UTILITY menu 47 MEGABEAT ONE USER MANUAL MIDI CLOCK OUT MIDI INPUT MIDI SONG SEL LYRICS SYSEX MIDI S...

Страница 48: ...th one of a sequencer the sequencer must be the Slave usually placing the sequencer Midi Clock parameter on External Midi Out etc and Megabeat One the Master the MIDI CLOCK OUT parameter is ENABLED In order to change the MIDI CLOCK OUT parameter 1 enable the MIDI SETUP function as previously described 2 position the cursor on the MIDI CLOCK OUT parameter 3 press the CHANGE soft key every time you ...

Страница 49: ...ge the MIDI INPUT parameter 1 enable the MIDI SETUP function as previously described 2 position the cursor on the MIDI INPUT parameter 3 press the CHANGE soft key every time you press this soft key the parameter value will change AUTO EXTERNAL DIGITAR 4 save the changes with the SAVE soft key or leave without saving with the EXIT soft key 5 4 3 MIDI SONG SEL This parameter allows you to identify M...

Страница 50: ...meter value will change ENABLED FILTERED 4 save the changes with the SAVE soft key or leave without saving with the EXIT soft key 5 4 4 LYRICS SYSEX This parameter will show Lyrics or text Karaoke on the Megabeat One display or on external displays wordbox depending on the selected parameter The values for this parameter are INTERNAL EXTERNAL In order to change the LYRICS SYSEX parameter 1 enable ...

Страница 51: ...One MIDI IN and MIDI OUT are connected to a sequencer where the THRU function is active In such cases disable the MIDI SOFT THRU function on the devices connected to the Megabeat One 5 5 SONGS BACKUP This function allows you to copy the songs present in the hard disk of Megabeat One to a floppy disk In order to enable the SONGS BACKUP function 1 press the UTILITY button 2 position the cursor on SO...

Страница 52: ... UTILITY menu NOTE When Megabeat One copies the song from the hard disk to the floppy disk it verifies that the floppy disk does not contain another song with the same name In this last case the copy is not allowed and the display shows this message SONG ALREADY PRESENT 5 6 RENAME SONG This function allows you to change the name of a song stored in the hard disk In order to enable the RENAME SONG ...

Страница 53: ...NAME The cursor will highlight the first letter of the NEW NAME field in order to change the name of the song move the PAGE VALUE Dial clockwise to increase the selected letter or anticlockwise to decrease the selected letter Then move to the next character with the CURSOR button on the right In order to remove a character from the old name or to insert a new one use the INS or DEL soft keys 53 ME...

Страница 54: ...st of all the songs available on the hard disk they are divided in pages and can be scrolled up and down either with the CURSOR keys or with the PAGE VALUE Dial7 These are the active soft keys 1 With the CURSOR keys or with the PAGE VALUE Dial choose the song you want to erase and then push the soft key SELECT a progressive number will appear next to that song 2 Repeat the sequence described in po...

Страница 55: ...ou will first have to cancel it from these groups with the EDIT GROUPS function The processing of a song starts immediately after the preceding one has been erased Once the erasure is completed the display goes back to the UTILITY menu 5 8 MIDI DATA DUMP This function allows you to record on the hard disk the Exclusive System dumps of an external instrument connected to the MIDI IN of the Megabeat...

Страница 56: ...y need to re load some patches into your instruments at once before playing a group of songs To enable the MIDI DATA DUMP function 1 Push the key UTILITY 2 Position the cursor on MIDI DATA DUMP 3 Push the soft key SELECT Your display will look like this Once the reception of the messages of the exclusive system has started the display will show 56 5 UTILITY WAITING FOR MIDI DATA MIDI DATA DUMP REC...

Страница 57: ...r IBM compatible PC to the hard disk of the Megabeat One and viceversa To be able to operate in this function you need to buy the optional kit floppy disk and linking cable The instructions for the correct installation of the software and the connection of the Megabeat One to the personal computer are enclosed with the kit Once the linkage has been set up you can have the display show all the comm...

Страница 58: ...e all those data At the moment Megabeat One can work just with 720K disks In a further release of the operative system it will be possible to format 1 44M disks To enable the F DISK FORMAT function from the DISK UTILITIES menu 1 Position the cursor on F DISK FORMAT 2 Push the soft key SELECT The display will change as follows 58 5 UTILITY F DISK FORMAT H DISK RECOVER H DISK FORMAT DISK UTILITIES S...

Страница 59: ...sk for example your recorded data will prove to be damaged If the display should show any error messages after a reading or writing operation on the hard disk you can try to solve the problem with the H DISK RECOVER function To enable the H DISK RECOVER function from the DISK UTILITIES menu 1 Position the cursor on H DISK RECOVER 2 push the soft key SELECT The display will change as follows Press ...

Страница 60: ...mber shown on the display number of the song under processing is higher than the total number of files currently present on the disk To halt the recover function simply turn the power off We recommend to have a backup of the songs recorded on the hard disk i e with the SONGS BACKUP or PC DATA DUMP before enabling the H DISK RECOVER function 5 10 3 H DISK FORMAT Through this function it is possible...

Страница 61: ...isplay will change as follows Choose NO to halt the formatting or YES if you want to continue before proceding with the disk formatting the Megabeat One will ask you to confirm your choice pressing the soft key YES once again During the formatting the display will show these words FORMAT IN PROGRESS When the operation is completed the display goes back to the UTILITIES menu 61 MEGABEAT ONE USER MA...

Страница 62: ...d off 2 Turn on the Megabeat One The unit will immediately check if the inserted floppy disk contains a new or different version of the operating system and if this is the case it will write it into the Hard Disk Since the updated operating system is stored permanently in the Hard Disk memory you don t need to repeat this operation anymore NOTE Should the display say HARD DISK FAILURE you may be o...

Страница 63: ...ols displayed on the left of the file name are used to identify the different types of files The prefixes used are the following Prefix Type of file No Prefix Songs Standard Midi File D Songs for Digitar X SysEx Dump Files A Audio Files W Audio to Midi Files Generic Files unknown type NOTE Audio Files can be recorded on the hard disk of the Megabeat One through the optional Audio Recording system ...

Страница 64: ...ding to EEC regulation Primary 230 Vac 50Hz Secondary 12 Vac 60 VA CONNECTORS MIDI MIDI IN MIDI OUT THRU RJ45 plug for Digitar link BACKLIGHTED GRAPHIC DISPLAY 64X192 DOTS PUSH PULL KNOBS FOR VOLUME AND CONTRAST ADJUSTMENT SIZE 260x240x90 mm WEIGHT Megabeat One 4 5 Kg Power supply 1 3 Kg ...

Страница 65: ... MANUAL 65 Megabeat One User Manual by Natale Caccavo 1995 CHARLIE LAB Roland Megabeat One and Digitar are registered trademarks Charlie Lab reserves the right to make changes without prior notice Artwork Master Studio ...

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