Music Production Station Owner's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Front and rear panel
- 3. Basic operation (Quick Start)
- Conceptual diagram of the EM-1
- Listening to a Song
- Listening to Patterns
- Trying out the functions
- Changing the tempo of a song or pattern
- Pressing keys to play the sound of a Part
- Modifying (editing) the sound of a part
- Editing the effect or delay
- Playing the sound of a part along with a song or pattern
- Editing the sound of a part, effect, or delay while hearing a song or pattern
- Modifying (editing) a rhythm or phrase pattern
- Saving a pattern that you create
- Using a Motion Sequence
- Playing with Pattern Set
- Using the EM-1 as a tone generator module
- Synchronizing the playback with other ELECTRIBE models
- 4. Pattern mode
- Selecting a pattern
- Setting the playback tempo
- Playing a pattern (Pattern Play)
- Creating a pattern
- Motion sequence
- Convenient functions for editing patterns
- Transposing a phrase (Transpose)
- Moving data within a part (Move Data)
- Copying a part (Copy Part)
- Data Copy within a pattern
- Copying the sound of a part (Copy Sound)
- Erasing motion sequence data from the part, effect, or delay (Clear Motion)
- Erasing pattern data from a part
- Exchanging data between parts (Swap Part)
- Editing motion sequence data
- Pattern Set
- Saving a pattern (WRITE)
- 5. Song mode
- Selecting a song
- Setting the playback tempo
- Playing a song (Song Play)
- Creating a song
- Creating a song from scratch
- Specifying the Note of each pattern
- Editing a song
- Inserting a pattern at a specified position (Insert Pattern)
- Deleting a pattern from a specified position (Delete Pattern)
- Changing the pattern for a specific position
- Recording knob movements or your performance in a song (Event Recording)
- Deleting event data from a song
- Checking for song event data
- Saving a song (WRITE)
- 6. Global mode
- Metronome settings
- Synchronizing the EM-1 with external MIDI devices (MIDI Clock)
- Setting the MIDI channel of each part (MIDI ch)
- Setting the MIDI note number of a drum part
- MIDI filter settings
- Adjusting the pitch bend range
- Transmit/receive dump data
- Memory Protect (Protect)
- Saving your changes in Global mode (WRITE)
- 7. Appendices
- Index
5.Song mode
5.Song mode
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Recording knob movements or your
performance in a song
(Event Recording)
In Song mode you can create a performance not only by com-
bining patterns, but also recording a realtime performance that
you play on the drum part keys and step keys (using the key-
board function), and by turning the knobs.
Recording such a performance in Song mode is referred to as
“event recording.”
The following four types of performance data (event data) can
be recorded by event recording.
• Performances using the drum part keys
• Performances using the keyboard function
• Knob and key operations (only for the selected part)
• Tempo
Event recording allows you to record two or more types of
events in the same area, as long as the events are played at the
same time.
Event recording always rewrites the previous data ("replace
recording"), and when you record your performance, any event
recording data previously in that area will be erased. (It is not
possible to layer event recording over the same area.)
1. Select the song on which you wish to record events.
2. Use the cursor keys to select Position (the corresponding
LED will light).
3. Use the dial or the Select keys to move to the position at
which you wish to begin recording.
4. Press the Rec key, and then press the Play/Pause key to be-
gin event recording.
5. Use the part keys and/or the knobs to perform.
6. Press the Stop/Cancel key to stop event recording.
If the musical data of the song coincides with the event-re-
corded data, the event data will be given priority during play-
back.
Knob movements that are event-recorded in Song mode will
always playback in a way that corresponds to the Smooth type
motion sequence setting (and not the Trig Hold type).
If you wish to save the event recording, you must per-
form the Write operation. If you switch songs or turn off
the power without performing the Write operation, the
data that was recorded will be lost.
After rewinding a song, it may not be possible to play-
back exactly according to the event data.
If during playback you operate a knob that had been
event-recorded, playback of the events of that knob will
be cancelled until it reaches the next position.
Deleting event data from a song
To delete event data from a song, you can perform event re-
cording over the area that you wish to delete (without operat-
ing any knobs or keys).
Checking for song event data
If event data is recorded in a song, step keys 13 through 16
will light if you hold down the Shift key and press the Motion
Sequence key of the Part Common section.
It is not possible to check for event data during playback
or recording.
Saving a song (WRITE)
If you wish to save a song that you create, you must perform
this Write operation.
If you decide not to save the song data you create, simply
switch songs without performing the Write operation.
1. If the song is playing, press the Stop/Cancel key to stop
playback. Use the cursor keys to select Song (the correspond-
ing LED will light).
2. Press the Write key once (the key will blink). The song num-
ber will blink in the display.
3. Rotate the dial to select the desired destination song num-
ber.
4. Press the Write key once again to save the data. (The key
will light, and then go dark.)
To cancel, press the Stop/Cancel key.
If the Global mode Memory Protect setting is on, it will
not be possible to write the data. In this case, turn off
the Global mode Memory Protect setting before you ex-
ecute the Write operation.
Never turn the power off during the Write operation. This
may damage the data.