Manual Roland A-88 (page 10 of 64) (English)

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Contents

USING THE UNIT SAFELY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3

IMPORTANT NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6

About the Ivory Feel Keyboard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8

Placing the A-88 on a Stand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

Quick Page Reference Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Contents of the Package . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Panel Descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Rear Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Driver Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Verify That You Can Hear Sound . . . . . . . . . . 23

Checking with a SONAR Soft

Synths (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Checking in GarageBand (Mac OS X)

. 24

MIDI Signal Flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

About the Operating Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Switching the Operating Mode . . . . . . . . . . 26

PLAY Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

FUNCTION Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

SuperNATURAL Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

MIDI Visual Control Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Layering Two Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Two Parts (LOWER, UPPER) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Layering Two Sounds (DUAL) . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Playing Dierent Sounds with the Right

and Left Hands (SPLIT) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Changing the Location at Which

the Keyboard Is Divided (Split Point)

. 31

Performing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Setting the MIDI Transmit Channel

(MIDI CHANNEL) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Switching Sounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Shifting the Pitch of the Keyboard . . . . . . . 34

Using the Lever to Modify the Sound . . . . 35

Using the D-BEAM to Modify the Sound . . 36

Using the Knobs to Modify the Sound . . . . 37

Using the Pedals to Modify the Sound . . . 38

Using Aftertouch to Modify the Sound . . . 39

Halting Stuck Notes (PANIC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Changing the A-88 Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Changing the Velocity Curve

(VELO CURVE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Specifying the Keyboard Velocity Value

(KEY VELO) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Making the Power Automatically Turn

O After a Time (Auto O ) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Switching the Function of the [C2]

Knob in SuperNATURAL Mode

(SN SETTING) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Assigning Functions to the Knobs,

Buttons, and Jacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Assigning a Program Change

Message (PRGM CHANGE) . . . . . . . . . 43

Assigning Aftertouch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Assigning a Control Change

Number (CC#) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Changing the Direction of Value

Increases for the Knobs, D-BEAM

Controller, and Pedals (CTRL DIR) . . . . . . . . 46

Selecting the Dedicated Driver or the

Generic Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Returning the Pedal Jacks Assignments

to the Factory Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Restoring the Factory Settings

(FACT RESET) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Problems When Installing the Driver . . . . . 48

Problems When Using the Unit . . . . . . . . . . 49

Changing Computer Settings to Avoid

Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Driver Signing Options Setting

(Windows XP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Power Management Settings . . . . . . 52

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