Roland GR-33 User Manual

When you are playing, you can use the arpeggiator or the 
harmonist. For each patch, you can select one of these 
functions (p. 78, 82) and also determine whether or not it will 
be active (p. 77, 81) when the patch is selected.

Likewise, you can select arpeggio patterns—the sequence of 
strings that the arpeggiator function creates and plays—for 
each patch individually from among the available 50 
patterns.

For more details about making these settings, refer to 
“Selecting Arpeggio Patterns (ARP PATTERN)” (p. 79).

Generally, you create and modify patches by using 
[PARAMETER] to select parameters in Patch Edit mode, and 
turning [VALUE] to select the desired values.

It is important to remember that if you simply switch to 
another patch, the changes you have made will be lost, and 
the edited patch will revert to its original state. (The lowest 
decimal point in the three-digital display lights (p. 32) to 
warn you of this.) To save any changes you have made, use 
the following steps to perform the Patch Write operation 
before changing to another patch.

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The following confirmation screen appears.

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“Now Writing...” appears in the display. In a moment, 
the GR-33 automatically returns to Play mode, 
completing the writing procedure.

Once you have performed these steps, the changes you have 
made to the patch will be recalled when that patch is 
selected, even if you switch to another patch or turn the 
power off.

With Patch Write, the patch is written the way it actually 
sounds at the time you write it, and this includes whether the 
Arpeggiator or Harmonist functions are turned on or off. 
However, temporary tone changes made with the base 
module pedals, such as wah and pitch glide, or those from 
external expression pedals, will not be saved. This also 
applies to the temporary switching off of internal effects 
using the effect bypass function (p. 75).