User manual ROLAND BE-5M

[. . . ] No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form without the written permission of ROLAND CORPORATION. Roland Web Site: http://www. roland. co. jp/ USING THE UNIT SAFELY Used for instructions intended to alert the user to the risk of death or severe injury should the unit be used improperly. Used for instructions intended to alert the user to the risk of injury or material damage should the unit be used improperly. * Material damage refers other adverse effects respect to the home furnishings, as well animals or pets. to damage or caused with and all its to domestic The symbol alerts the user to important instructions or warnings. The specific meaning of the symbol is determined by the design contained within the triangle. [. . . ] The Repeat function will be cancelled, and the repeat start point (A) and end point (B) registrations will also be erased. 128 Recording/playing back a performance Assigning markers within a song--Marker The Marker function lets you assign a marker at desired locations in the song. When this function is used, you can move instantly to the location of a marker that you registered, simply by specifying the appropriate marker number. Markers are assigned a number in the range of 001­100, starting at the beginning of the song, and you can assign up to 100 markers. This means that if you register a new marker between existing markers, subsequent markers will be renumbered upward by one. For example, if you add the following marker after marker number 2, the numbers will change as shown below. fig. 42-12e Marker1 Marker2 Marker3 Marker4 Time Marker1 Marker2 Marker3 Marker4 Marker5 Time Recording/playing back a performance Assigning a marker Press [MARK]. Markers can be registered regardless of whether you are recording, playing, or stopped. Moving to the location of a marker To move to a marker earlier than the playback location, press SEARCH [ time you press SEARCH [ ], you will move to the previous marker. It is not possible to assign a marker within 1 seconds of an existing marker. To move to a marker later than the playback location, press SEARCH [ Deleting a marker Markers will make searching more convenient, but an excessive number of markers can actually make searching more difficult. Press SEARCH [ ][ ] to move to the marker that you wish to delete. 2. If markers exist after the deleted marker, they will be renumbered downward by one. 129 Recording/playing back a performance Changing the location of a marker 1. Press [YES/ENTER]. fig. 42-15 The Marker Edit screen appears. 4. Make sure that the cursor is located at the "NO. " 5. Turn the TIME/VALUE dial to specify the number of the marker that you wish to edit. Press [DISPLAY] to return to the Basic screen. 132 Editing a recorded performance to create an audio CD Mixing down After listening to repeated playbacks and adjusting the pan, equalizer, loop effects, and volume balance settings of each audio track to the desired settings, you are ready to mixdown. 1. [MIX DOWN] will light, and you will be in mixdown-ready mode. * If the pad/sequence contained in the BE-5M's internal memory, a message of "Save PAD/SEQ Data?" appears, [MIX DOWN] will blink. If you wish to save the pad/sequence on a CD-RW disc, press [YES/ENTER]. If you press [NO/EXIT], a message of "You'll lose PAD/SEQ data. If you wish to cancel, press [NO/EXIT]. Once you carry out mixdown, pad/sequence held in internal memory of BE-5M will be lost. 2. For audio tracks that you wish to include in the mixdown, press [STATUS] to make the button light in green. * Make sure that master track [STATUS] light in red. If you wish to cancel MIXDOWN MODE ([MIX DONW] is lit), press [MIX DONW] once again. 3. Press ZERO [ the song). ] to return the SONG POSITION to "00:00:00-00" (beginning of Editing a recorded performance to create an audio CD Alternatively, you can move to a desired location so that recording will start from that point. Press PLAY [ ]. You cannot listen the song in CD burning mode. Mixdown will begin. When mixdown is finished, press STOP [ ]. The screen will ask "Do you want to burn a CD?" If you wish to create an audio CD, press [YES/ENTER] and continue with the procedure "Writing to a CD-R disc" (p. For detail refer to "Listen to the result of Mixing down", below. Listen to the result of Mixing down 1. [. . . ] This parameter sets the ratio at which the output in the middle frequency band is suppressed when the input level has exceeded the middle threshold level. This parameter sets the ratio at which the output in the High frequency band is suppressed when the input level has exceeded the High threshold level. This parameter sets the time until when the low frequency band compressor starts working after the input level has exceeded the low threshold level. This parameter sets the time until when the middle frequency band compressor starts working after the input level has exceeded the middle threshold level. [. . . ]