Roland g-70 Manuel Du Propriétaire

 

 

 

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 Music Workstation

 

The G-70 is quite simply a superlative instrument with 
the most advanced and best sound generation technol-
ogy Roland has to offer. It combines Roland’s Virtual 
ToneWheel technology (derived from our successful VK 
series) with a superb internal sound source (based on 
the acclaimed Fantom-X series) and the possibility to 
expand your sound arsenal using a wave expansion 
board of Roland’s SRX series.

 

The G-70 was designed from the ground up to put its 
massive array of functions at your fingertips. The full-
color touch-sensitive screen and the large number of 
front-panel buttons usually provide direct access to the 
available functions, thus doing away with the need to 
wade through countless menus.

Parameters that belong together from a musician’s 
point of view are usually located on the same or adja-
cent display pages, while setting them has been greatly 
simplified with respect to earlier arranger instruments.

 

Reorchestrating existing Standard MIDI Files and Music 
Styles has become a breeze thanks to high-quality Song 
and Style Cover presets and an intuitive, instrument-
based, set of MAKEUP TOOLS parameters that allow you 
to “revoice” your songs and Styles without spending 
hours editing single events.

The structure of Standard MIDI Files can be changed in 
real-time thanks to four programmable MARK & JUMP 
memories, which allows you to play extended versions 
of prerecorded songs. 

 

The G-70’s Arranger not only boasts a new structure 
(with 4 accompaniment levels, 4 Intros and 4 Ending 
phrases) but also relies on a more musical real-time 
conversion of the chords you play into meaningful 
accompaniment phrases. Roland’s patent-applied-for 
ACV technology can indeed transpose Music Style parts 
in such a way as to eliminate unnatural jumps of 
strings lines, piano chords, etc.

 

Another highlight of the G-70 is its Vocal Harmonist 
that adds automatic harmonies to your singing, com-
plete with several modes for transforming your (or 
someone else’s) voice.

This implies, of course, that you can connect an 
optional (Roland DR-10 or DR-20) microphone to the 
G-70. Other signal sources (synthesizers, etc.) can also 
be connected. Note that a separate EXTERNAL AUDIO IN 

part with its own effect section is also provided, allow-
ing you to add external line-level signals (of a sound 
module, CD player, etc.) to your playing.

The signals generated by your singing and/or the Vocal 
Harmonist can either be added to the signals of the 
MAIN OUTPUT sockets, or transmitted directly to one or 
two mixer channels (or additional amplifiers) via the 
dedicated VOCAL HARMONIST OUTPUT sockets.

 

The G-70 provides two approaches for recording new 
song material: a Recorder function with a straightfor-
ward REC-START-STOP approach and a fully-featured 
16-track sequencer with track-based and detailed 
microscope editing functions.

Like many other functions on the G-70, the Recorder 
interacts with other sections: you can link a song to 
each User Program, you can cause any Standard MIDI 
File to be transposed automatically to a range that 
allows you to sing with ease, the chords of the songs 
you play back are recognized automatically and dis-
played, etc.

 

Another highlight of the G-70 is the fact that you can 
work with an almost unlimited number of songs, Music 
Styles and User Programs (in the internal memory, on 
memory card or floppy disk). Though there are still fac-
tory Music Styles, you can also work with “CUSTOM” 
links to accompaniments in the internal memory or on 
memory card, and even select such “external” Styles on 
the fly. The same high-speed access system is available 
for Standard MIDI Files (songs) and User Programs. 

Thanks to the clever Finder databases, the difference 
between what’s internal and what resides in an “exter-
nal” memory has become almost imperceptible.

 

Thanks to the G-70’s Play List function, you can pro-
gram set lists for your performances. The advantage of 
such song chains is that you won’t have to look for the 
desired songs on stage.

Furthermore, you can already prepare the next song 
while the current one is still running (NEXT SONG func-
tion).

 

The G-70 has the acclaimed D Beam Controller* for 
intuitive song and Style playback control and additional 
DJ-like effects via movements over an invisible beam of 
infrared light. And, of course, the BENDER/MODULA-
TION lever is also there, as are sockets for optional foot-
switches and an expression pedal.

 

(* D Beam technology licensed from Interactive Light, Inc.)