Roland AX-7 - Manual

Panel descriptions 6 M ENTER button Press this button to confirm a setting or a selection. N EXIT button Press this button to leave the currently selected EDIT level, or to ignore the value you just set (thus return-ing to the previously set value). O DOWN/UP buttons These buttons duplicate the DOWN...

r AX-7 Owner’s Manual 7 ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH Inserting or replacing the batteries The AX-7 can be powered either by batteries or an optional AC adaptor. For live use, batteries are by far more convenient, however. Battery replacement Six AA batteries are required to run th...

The basics 8 Connecting the AX-7 Note: Switch off both the AX-7 and the external instru- ment(s) before establishing or breaking the MIDI connections. The AX-7 is a MIDI controller. It contains no sound-generating circuits of its own. You need to connect it to at least one external MIDI instrument i...

r AX-7 Owner’s Manual 9 ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH Your AX-7 has three buttons that allow you to select one of four Keyboard modes. The KEYBOARD MODE deter-mines how many zones and/or MIDI channels can be used simultaneously. Whole Upper This mode means that the Upper section is...

Configuring the AX-7 10 Your AX-7 comes with a great many MIDI parameters, or message types, that can be transmitted so as to con-trol your MIDI rig to your liking. Most of the following parameters can be set for the Upper and Lower sections independently – and most of them can be saved to a Patch m...

r AX-7 Owner’s Manual 11 ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH (8) Press [EXIT] yet again to leave the EDIT mode. You will achieve the same result by pressing the lighting EDIT button (it then goes dark). Note: See page 17 if you wish to save the settings you have just made as a Patch. CON...

Configuring the AX-7 12 Select LL if all note messages of the section in question are to be transmitted with more or less the same velocity value. Extreme differences in dynam-ics (hitting very hard and very soft) will, however, allow you to trigger velocity switches if the receiv-ing MIDI instrumen...

r AX-7 Owner’s Manual 13 ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH Here are the official GM2 (General MIDI Level 2) functions of the remaining Control Changes: If you set [3] bar (see p. 11) to 0ff and assign a 11u ~ 78d option to the D Beam, the EXPRES- SION BAR can be used for “locking” the ...

Configuring the AX-7 14 DATA parameters The DATA parameters represent MIDI messages you can use for configuring the receiving MIDI instrument up to a certain point by specifying things like its main and expression volume, its Reverb and/or Chorus depth, etc. These are “static” settings that are tran...

r AX-7 Owner’s Manual 15 ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH Portamento is an effect that produces gradual pitch changes between the notes you play. The higher the value, the longer it takes before the pitch of the newly played note is reached. [8] mod (MIDI mode) Upper, Lower This param...

Configuring the AX-7 16 PRG CHG parameters As can be inferred from the assigned buttons ( [3] ~ [6] and [9] have no func- tion), this EDIT level in fact consists of two groups: the first three parameters can be set for both zones independently, while the last two apply to the AX-7 as a whole. Nevert...

r AX-7 Owner’s Manual 17 ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH Transpose Your AX-7 comes with a TRANSPOSE function you may want to use for playing songs in difficult keys. To set the desired transposition interval: (1) Hold down the [TRANSPOSE] button and wait until the current transpositi...

Miscellaneous 18 Selecting Patches (1) If you haven’t yet saved your current settings, do it now (see above). (2) Leave the currently selected EDIT mode by pressing [CONTROL] , [DATA] , or [PRG≈CHG] (depending on which of these buttons lights). (3) Use the [A/B] and [1] ~ [8] buttons to select the d...