EM-55 OR - Roland Keyboard Club

EM-55 OR Owner’s Manual
10. Additional Music Style functions
Apart from the basic Music Style functions covered on page 13 and following, your EM-55 OR also provides the
following functions.
The following are only available after pressing the [ARRANGER] button (its indicator must light).
Session Partner functions
The EM-55 OR’s SESSION PARTNER section can also be used for “playing” with the Arranger parts, or adding
a ninth accompaniment phrase to the Arranger’s 8-part accompaniment. Let’s have a look at these two
functions:
Muting Arranger parts (Track)
The EM-55 OR’s Music Styles comprise eight accompaniment parts: Drums, Bass, and Accomp 1~6. If
you take a close look at the SESSION PARTNER section, you will see that these names appear above the
numeric buttons [1]~[8]:
The ACCOMP parts contain melodic accompaniments (piano riffs, sax parts, guitar chords, etc.). If you
like, you can mute these Arranger parts during playback – and save these settings to a User Program
(see p. 49). Here’s how you do that:
(1) Press the KBD MODE [ARRANGER] button
(its indicator lights).
ARRANGER
(2) Select the desired Music Style (see p. 14).
(3) Press [START/STOP] to start Arranger playback.
(4) Press the [TRACK] button (the upper indicator
lights).
• or because the corresponding track contains
no data.
Not all eight Arranger tracks are indeed
used by all Music Styles or Music Style divisions
(Intro, Variation, etc.).
(5) Use the SESSION PARTNER [1/9]~[8/16]
buttons to switch the desired Arranger
parts on/off.
Note: Once you start muting or switching on existing
Arranger parts, the EM-55 OR leaves the currently
selected Orchestrator level. Your realtime
changes always have priority.
Note: The on/off status of the Arranger parts does
not change if you select another Music Style while
Arranger playback is running. If, however, you select
another Music Style after stopping Arranger playback,
all (existing) Arranger parts will be switched
on again.
Note: You can also change the volume of certain
Arranger parts. See “AccDrums, AccBass, Accomp:
volume” (p. 45).
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Now take a look at the SESSION PARTNER
[1/9]~[8/16] buttons. Some of them light,
while others don’t. There may be two reasons
why a [1/9]~[8/16] indicator does not
light:
• either because the corresponding Arranger
track is switched off (something you did by
pressing the button in question, or by
selecting another Orchestrator level, see
p. 27)…
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