Roland g-70 Manuel Du Propriétaire

G-70 Music Workstation 

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There is no need to restart Style playback manually if 
you also activate SYNC [START] (see above).

Note: You can also use a Fade-Out. See page 138 for details.

If you’ve never used an arranger keyboard before, the 
status of the SYNC [START] button is the single most 
important function to look out for after switching on 
your instrument. If it is on, playing just one note on the 
keyboard may cause the Arranger to start playing when 
you don’t want it to.

Once you get to know the G-70 a little better, you will 
appreciate this function, though. 

SYNC START means that the Arranger starts as soon as 
you play a note or chord in the chord recognition area 
of the keyboard. (If the EASY SETTING [ARR] button 
lights, this area is the left half of the keyboard. See 
p. 79 for details.)

The G-70 also provides a SYNC STOP button. That 
function causes the Arranger to stop playback as soon 
as you release all keys in the chord recognition area. 
This is great for songs where you need breaks (i.e. one 
or several beats of silence). 

Here’s a quick overview of how the G-70’s Music Styles 
are structured:

The numeric button you press flashes until the new 
pattern is used (after which the button lights steadily).

You can use fill-ins (transitions) to go from one MAIN 
VARIATION pattern to the next by switching on the 
[AUTO¥FILL] button before pressing another (or the 
lighting) MAIN VARIATION [1]~[4] button.

The fill-in that is played between the current and the 
next VARIATION pattern depends on where you come 
from. Each transition from one VARIATION pattern to 
another (e.g. from [1] to [2]) is different from the others 
(from [2] to [3], from [3] to [4] and from [4] to [1]).

There are three Fill-Ins for the upward direction (“Up”) 
and three for downward moves (“Dw”). 

Note: You can also press [INTRO] in the middle of a performance. 
In that case, the button flashes until the end of the current bar 
and then lights on the next downbeat to indicate that the 
Arranger is playing the introductory pattern.

You can also switch among Style patterns using the 
aftertouch function, the ASSIGN SW buttons or a foot-
switch. Here are the pattern selection functions you 
can assign:

Note: Even aftertouch messages generated outside the chord 
recognition area (see p. 79) trigger the selected switching func-
tion.

The Bass Inversion function allows you to change the 
way the Arranger reads the chords you play. 

If this function is off, the A.BASS part (ABS) plays the 
root of the chords that feed the Arranger, while the 
chords of the ACCOMP 1~6 parts are voiced in such a 
way as to avoid semitone intervals (for complex chords) 
that wouldn’t sound very nice.

Bass Inversion gives you more artistic license because 
you specify the notes played by the ABS part. Switch on 
Bass Inversion for songs that rely on bass rather than 
on chord patterns (for example C – C/B – C/B

b, etc.).

MAIN VARIATION [1] The simplest of the four basic accom-

paniment patterns. This pattern is ideal 
for the first verse of a song.

MAIN VARIATION [2] A slightly more complex pattern. Con-

sider using it for the second and third 
verses.

MAIN VARIATION [3] This pattern could be used for the first 

chorus(es).

MAIN VARIATION [4] This is the most complex accompani-

ment that could be used for the final 
choruses and/or the bridge.

Aftertouch 

ASSIGN SW 

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