Roland g-70 Manuel Du Propriétaire

G-70 Music Workstation 

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(3) Press the [KEYBOARD] and/or [SONG] field to switch 

it on.
These fields allow you to specify which parts should 
be affected by the Transpose setting:

[KEYBOARD]: The Keyboard parts are transposed. 
Since the Arranger’s key depends on the notes you 
play on the keyboard, the Arranger parts are also 
transposed.

Note: Parts that play Drum Sets are never transposed.

[SONG]: During Recorder playback, only the song 
parts during Recorder playback are transposed. 

Though it is perfectly possible to switch on both 
options, at least one of them must be on. “KEY-
BOARD” could be useful for transposing only the Key-
board parts so that you can play to a song in “your” 
key but sound in the song’s key.

Note: If you also want note messages received via MIDI to be 
transposed, you must set “TRANSPOSE RX (On/Off)” on p. 218 
to “ON”.

(4) Press the [EXIT] button to return to the main page.

There is also a “master transpose control” that alters the 
pitch of all sections of the G-70. Its value is added to 
the current transposition interval (and the Singer Key 
as well as User Program transposition) until you reset it 
to “0” or until you switch off your G-70. 

(1) Press the [MENU] button.

(2) Press the [TUNING] field, followed by the 

[MASTER¥TUNE] field.

(3) Use the [√≈ƒ] and [≈®] fields to transpose the 

G-70’s pitch.
The setting range is –6~0~5 semitones. This setting 
applies to all sections and all User Programs.

You could take advantage of this function for solo parts 
where you need the UP1 and UP2 parts to trigger the 
same Tone, while UP2 plays one octave above or below 
UP1. Another use for this function is to provide access 
to the “noises” of the G-70’s new “V” Tones so as to be 
able to trigger the scraping, knocking, etc. 

This probably only works when you use a Keyboard part 
(MBS, LW2, LW1, UP3, UP2, UP1) in WHOLE Keyboard 
Mode (page 57). Working in SPLIT mode indeed means 
that you can only play the notes up to a certain point 
(the split point). For the “noises”, you need to select the 
setting “–3”. Note that this also means that you need to 
play the “real” notes at the right end of the keyboard, 
because the entire part/Tone is transposed down. 

This parameter also comes in handy when you wish 
to trigger Drum Set sounds that are not accessible via 
the keyboard in its normal state. Remember that 
there are 76 keys, while some Drum Sets provide 
drum/percussion sounds for all 128 notes supported 
by the MIDI standard. 

OCTAVE= –1

OCTAVE= 0