Hi. I currently play midi backing track songs on my Roland E60 and would like to use the midi songs to select a User Program or sounds for a keyboard part. This way I can create a play list of several songs, and as the next song is automatically loaded, the keyboard sound is also set and I can play along. Thanks
It is possible to do it the other way around. I.e. make up user programs with the sounds you wish to use on the keyboard, then use the song link function to get the user program to call up the appropriate song. This way you are guaranteed to get the sounds and song you want.Bear in mind you may use a pedal to increment up through the user programs, these can become an effective playlist too.
Thanks John. I use the User Program this way with a song link and it works well. I play at gigs and thought it would be good to setup a play list where the next song is loaded as soon as the previous one finishes. I currently use the User Program to select the next song and keyboard parts when playing at gigs and although it works well, I do need to scroll through pages in the User Program to find the next song.
I do understand what you are trying to achieve, but feare this is not possible. The E50/60/80 stores it's user programs in a different way than previous models. This has the advantage of substantially reducing loading times. However it means that your user programs no longer have physical references which may be called up by midi (at least there is nothing mentioned in the manual to explain this!)
Your user programs list is now a list of references to an actual user program, not a user program in itself. So you may have several thousand user programs, but your list may only contain 144 of these. However this also allows you to create different lists for different occasions. (wedding set, Party set, gig set etc)
What I am suggesting is that rather than creating song lists, you should create user program lists. This will then call up the correct parameters for you. If you create a list of user programs, you are not affecting the user programs themselves, merely the order of the list. To see what I mean, look at user program finder. This shows an alphabetical list of the user programs. These are not in the same order as when you press the user program list button. The list you currently have loaded refers to the master list and calls up specific user programs when you press a button. If you create another user program list, it will use the same set of user programs, just in a different order.
So ideally, you need to create a new user program list instead of a song list. Each user prgram should have a song link. This will get you exactly what you need.
