User Manual

10
Playing Audio Files
You can play your favorite audio les (WAV) by striking pads.
You can use this to play drum sounds and sound eects, or even
songs or loop phrases.
Placing Audio Files on an SD Card
Preparations
You’ll need the following items.
• Computer: A computer that can read and write an SD card, such as a Windows or Mac.
You might need to provide an SD card reader separately.
• SD card, or SDHC card
• Audio les of the sounds that you want to play
Use your computer to prepare and edit the audio le to the following specications.
Format Extensions Sampling Frequency Bit Rate Channels
WAV .WAV, .wav 44.1 kHz 16 bits Mono, Stereo
1.
If you’re using an SD card for the rst time, insert the SD card into the TM-2 and format it. p. 17
* Prepare an SD card specically for the TM-2. If the card is also used with another device, it might not work correctly with the TM-2.
2.
Connect the SD card to your computer.
3.
Place the audio les (WAV) in the Roland/
TM-2/WAVE folder of the SD card.
* You can create up to one level of folders inside the WAVE
folder (a maximum of 300).
* Each folder can contain up to 300 audio les.
* File names containing double-byte characters (such as
Japanese) are not displayed correctly by the TM-2.
* If you rename or move the le, no sound can be
produced, and the screen indicates “NO WAVE.” You’ll
need to reassign the sound to the pad.
4.
Insert the SD card into the TM-2’s SD card
slot.
* Never insert or remove an SD card while this unit is turned on. Doing so may corrupt the data on the SD card.
* In order to play audio les from the SD card, the SD card must remain inserted in the TM-2. If the SD card is not inserted, the
screen indicates “NO CARD.”
5.
Assign audio les to pads as described in the procedure “Playing Sounds (Instruments)” (p. 9).
Audio les can be assigned to pads and edited (p. 11) just like the internal instruments.
* Subsequently, internal instruments and audio les are collectively called “instruments.”
Roland
Place the WAV les inside this
folder.
Folders at a second
level or deeper are not
recognized. Don’t create
such folders.
You can create folders to
organize the les (up to 300
folders, up to one level).
TM-2
WAVE
Snares
2ndSnare
Kicks
My_Wave2.wav
My_Wave1.wav
My_Kick2.wav
My_Kick1.wav
My_Snare1.wav
WAV
* Some SD card types or SD cards from some manufacturers may not play back properly on the TM-2.
* The memory card write protect feature (LOCK)
The contents of the memory card can be protected by write protecting it. To write protect a card,
slide the write protect switch on the side of the memory card to the “LOCK” position. Unlock write
protect to delete data on the card.
Write protect
switch