Roland GR-33 User Manual
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Chapter 11 Appendices
Chap.
11
Settings cannot be made
independently for individual strings
independently for individual strings
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Is the setting one that cannot be made for individual
strings?
strings?
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The seven settings that can be made independently for
each of the strings using the [STRING SELECT] button
are TONE “Layer,” “1ST TRANSPOSE,” and “2ND
TRANSPOSE,” COMMON “MIDI [PC],” “MIDI [CC0],”
“MIDI [CC32]” and “MIDI [TRANSPOSE].”
each of the strings using the [STRING SELECT] button
are TONE “Layer,” “1ST TRANSPOSE,” and “2ND
TRANSPOSE,” COMMON “MIDI [PC],” “MIDI [CC0],”
“MIDI [CC32]” and “MIDI [TRANSPOSE].”
When Playing the GR-33 sound
generator with a MIDI Keyboard
or Other Instrument
generator with a MIDI Keyboard
or Other Instrument
No sound
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Do the MIDI channels for sending and receiving
match?
match?
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The P-GLIDE and HOLD pedal effects
don’t work
don’t work
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The Hold and Pitch Glide functions cannot be used
when play is controlled by MIDI messages from an
external instrument (such as a keyboard).
when play is controlled by MIDI messages from an
external instrument (such as a keyboard).
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Use the controls on the external instrument to apply
pitch bending and holds.
pitch bending and holds.
Single notes are sounded when MIDI
messages are sent from the external
instrument, but messages such as
Program Change are not received
messages are sent from the external
instrument, but messages such as
Program Change are not received
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Are MIDI messages being sent to the five channels
other than the first channel specified by the SYSTEM
“BASIC CHANNEL” setting? MIDI messages other
than Note messages and Bend messages must be sent
to the first channel.
other than the first channel specified by the SYSTEM
“BASIC CHANNEL” setting? MIDI messages other
than Note messages and Bend messages must be sent
to the first channel.
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Be sure to send data from the external instrument to the
first matching channel.
first matching channel.
When Sending Performance Data from
the GR-33 to an External MIDI Device
(sound generator or Sequencer)
the GR-33 to an External MIDI Device
(sound generator or Sequencer)
No sound from the external sound
generator
generator
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Do the MIDI channels for sending and receiving
match?
match?
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The volume level of the external sound generator may
have been lowered by a MIDI Volume message
(Control Change No. 7) sent from the GR-33.
have been lowered by a MIDI Volume message
(Control Change No. 7) sent from the GR-33.
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Raise the volume on the GK-2A.
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Make sure the volume on the GK-2A or the expression
pedal has not been turned down too low.
pedal has not been turned down too low.
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Use the controls to increase the volume.
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The sending of Note messages and the like also stops
for patches for which COMMON “MIDI[PC]” is set to
“Off.”
for patches for which COMMON “MIDI[PC]” is set to
“Off.”
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The external sound generator plays only
one string (some strings can’t be heard)
one string (some strings can’t be heard)
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Is the GR-33 using the Mono mode to send data to a
sound generator which cannot simultaneously receive
data on six MIDI channels?
sound generator which cannot simultaneously receive
data on six MIDI channels?
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For such sound generators, send data in the Poly mode
(p. 88).
(p. 88).
Notes in a bass register not on the
guitar cannot be played
guitar cannot be played
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Output from MIDI OUT can be transposed as desired by
changing the COMMON “MIDI[TRANSPOSE]” setting
(p. 92).
changing the COMMON “MIDI[TRANSPOSE]” setting
(p. 92).
The pitch is wrong
(out of tune with the guitar)
(out of tune with the guitar)
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Is MIDI Bend Range the same for both sending and
receiving?
receiving?
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