Roland g-70 Manuel Du Propriétaire

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G-70 Music Workstation

Each accompaniment (or Music Style) consists of up to 
eight parts:

ADR: Accompaniment drums. This part takes care of the 
rhythm section. It triggers the drum and percussion 
sounds of the Drum Set assigned to the ADR part.

ABS: Accompaniment bass. This part plays the bass line 
of the Music Style you select.

ACC1~ACC6: These are the melodic accompaniment 
parts. Depending on the Music Style you selected, only 
some of them actually play something, which can be 
anything from a piano line, a guitar line, an organ line, 
etc., to synthesizer chords. Not all ACC parts play 
chords, though.

The ABS and ACC1~6 parts rely on the chord or note 
information you play in the chord recognition area 
(page 79), i.e. the keyboard zone you assign to the 
Arranger.

Music Styles can be started in several ways:

(1) Press the EASY SETTING [ARR] button (its indicator 

lights).

• Press the [START÷STOP] button (so that it lights) to 

start the Arranger right away.

If you start the Arranger without playing a chord in 
the chord recognition area beforehand, you will only 
hear the drums of the selected Style. In most cases, 
however, the G-70 has already memorized a chord, 
so that you will hear the full accompaniment.

—or—

• Stop playback of the current Style (see below), press 

the [INTRO] button (so that it lights), one of the VARI-
ATION [1]~[4] buttons to select the “complexity” of 
the introduction and then the [START÷STOP] button.
This starts Style playback with a musical introduction. 

The length of the Intro depends on the Style you 
select. At the end of the Intro, the Arranger switches 
to the [MAIN] pattern you selected with one of the 
VARIATION buttons.

Note: The Intro is “renewable”, i.e. you can press the [INTRO] 
button again while the Intro is playing. Doing so on the fourth 
beat of the first Intro bar, for instance, will retrigger the begin-
ning of the Intro in the second bar. 

—or—

• Press the SYNC [START] button and play a chord (or 

just one note in INTELLIGENT mode, see p. 80). In this 
case, the Arranger starts as soon as you play a note or 
chord in the chord recognition area (see p. 79).

Note: Do not play chord changes while the Intro is running. 
Unlike the MAIN patterns, INTRO patterns usually contain 
chord changes. Chord recognition is not deactivated during 
Intro playback, so that the beginning of a song may jump from 
one key to another in a rather unnatural way. Chord recogni-
tion during Intro (and Ending) playback can be switched off, 
however (see “Intro & Ending Alteration” on page 80).
Note: You can also start and stop the Arranger with the D 
Beam controller (page 65).

There are three ways to stop Style playback:

• Press [START÷STOP] to stop playback right away.

—or—

• Press the [END/RIT] button (so that it lights) and one 

of the VARIATION [1]~[4] buttons to activate the End-
ing function. The Ending (or coda) pattern will start 
at the beginning of the next measure (next down-
beat).

Note: Do not play chord changes while the Ending is running. 
Unlike the MAIN accompaniments, ENDING patterns usually 
contain chord changes. Chord recognition is not deactivated 
during Ending playback, so that the ending of a song may 
jump from one key to another in a rather unnatural way. 
Chord recognition during Ending (and Intro) playback can be 
switched off, however (see p. 80).

—or—

• Press SYNC [STOP] and release all keys in the chord 

recognition area of the keyboard. The accompani-
ment stops immediately.