Roland g-70 Manuel Du Propriétaire

G-70 Music Workstation 

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• Press the [ARRANGER¥SETTING] field, followed by the 

[ARRANGER¥OPTIONS] field.

• Start Arranger playback and press the [FILL¥RIT] but-

ton icon to switch it on.

• Press the [MAIN] and a VARIATION [1]~[4] button.

The G-70 plays a Fill-In. The tempo slows down while 
the fill is being played. At the end of the fill, the Style 
returns to the previously set tempo (this is called “a 
tempo”). 

• Press the [HALF¥BAR] button icon to switch on the 

Half Bar function. Certain pop songs in 4/4 contain 
bars that only last two beats. The usual place for such 
a bar is between the first and the second verse. 
Another favorite position for “halved” bars is at the 
end of a chorus or the bridge. Pressing this button 
icon does not change Style playback right away. Only 
when a Fill-In starts will the Half Bar function be 
activated and play half the number of beats of the fill 
you selected.

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

The G-70 provides 10 memories per family (i.e. 120 in 
all) that refer to Styles in the internal memory (“INTER-
NAL MEMORY”) or on a memory card (“EXTERNAL 
MEMORY”). These memories behave exactly like the fac-
tory memories.

In the case of a memory card, however, they only 
“work” if the card in question has been inserted into the 
PCMCIA slot. Thanks to the G-70’s powerful software, 
loading a CUSTOM Style is as swift as working with the 
factory Styles. 

The Style referenced by the CUSTOM memory you select 
is automatically loaded and copied to the Disk User 
memory (see also p. 85). This is a RAM memory whose 
contents are erased when you switch off the G-70 and 
overwritten when you select another CUSTOM memory 
(or use the Disk User function). 

Here’s in a nutshell what happens when you select a 
CUSTOM memory. (Even though the drawing may sug-
gest that this takes quite some time, the G-70 performs 
these steps in a split second.)

When you unpack the G-70, the CUSTOM memories 
are empty. So you first need to program your own 
references to Styles. 

The G-70 comes with several Style examples in internal 
memory you could use to try out the following. Once 
you start working with your G-70, you will probably 
copy external Music Styles to the internal memory and 
establish CUSTOM links to those.

DATA

DISK

USER

You select a CUSTOM 
memory.

The G-70 looks up the name of 
the referenced Style

The data are loaded from 
card or the internal memory.

This memory contains the 
Music Style data.

The Style can be played back.