GR-1 Supplemental Notes
© 1995 Roland Corporation U.S.
GR-1 MIDI Sequencing
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Front Panel Tone Select
1) From the PLAY mode, press the EDIT RECORDER/PART button.
2) Press PARAMETER PREVIOUS down one time to access the parameter for selecting the PART-TONE:
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EDIT MUTE CHO
PRT-TONE
3) Press ENTER to call-up PRT1.
4) Use VALUE to select an appropriate bass sound for your song. Pressing CURSOR > will tell you which Tone
you have selected.
Note: While in the Tone Select screen, you are placing the GR-1 in MIDI Omni mode. This will take whatever
notes are comming into the GR-1 on ANY MIDI CHANNEL and play them with the sound selected on this
screen. When choosing Tones with this method, make sure to leave this screen after your choices have been
made before returning to sequencing.
5) CURSOR < to return to the PART1 page and use PARAMETER NEXT to call-up PART2. Use VALUE to
select a nice chord accompaniment sound for the 2nd Part.
6) Repeat the same steps for PART3 and select a nice melody/solo tone.
Calling up Sounds via MIDI
If you would prefer to call up sounds from your external sequencer, you can do so with MIDI program change
messages. The original MIDI specification only allowed for 128 different program locations. The GR-1 has 200
internal Tones, and 200 more Tones can be added with the optional SR-GR1-01 Expansion Board. To call up all of
the GR-1's Tones, we can use the newly adopted MIDI bank select controller message.
The GR-1 uses MIDI bank select message control change 0. The value of the control change 0 will change to
select the bank of the tone you want to use. Use the following chart for a guide:
MIDI Bank
Controller
Program Change Numbers
Select #
# 0 Values
1
2
3
4 ................... 125 126 127 128
0
0
00
01
02
03 ......... ........ 124 125 126 127
128
1
128 129 130
131 ......... ........ 252 253 254 255
256
2
256 257 258
259 ......... ........ 380 381 382 383
384
3
384 385 386
387 ......... 399
Each of these controller messages needs to be followed immediately with a program change. In sequencing
programs the bank number may be requested. Here is an example of how to do this:
1) To call up Tone number 64 BRT STRG, we would need the following messages:
Controller 0 value 0 (Bank 0)
Program Change 64
To call up Tone number 175 AMBIENCE we would need the following messages:
Controller 0 value 1 (Bank 128)
Program Change 4
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