Bigmc Posted December 12, 2014 Posted December 12, 2014 Ive just purchased a new Roland RD300NX and would like a little help from fellow RD owners. If I go into live sets and say choose Brass/Synth and preset 172 tenor sax, then I press the piano button and play a little piano then want to go to my sax and hit the live set button again, it defaults back to In Da Groove (preset 201) ? Should it do this ? On my PX350 it will stay on the selected tone ? " I may not be as good a player as you but I'm having fun "
Mickey Keys Posted December 12, 2014 Posted December 12, 2014 Ive just purchased a new Roland RD300NX and would like a little help from fellow RD owners. If I go into live sets and say choose Brass/Synth and preset 172 tenor sax, then I press the piano button and play a little piano then want to go to my sax and hit the live set button again, it defaults back to In Da Groove (preset 201) ? Should it do this ? On my PX350 it will stay on the selected tone ? It's performing exactly as it was programmed. That said, I'm not wild about the way it was programmed. (I've recently replaced a 700NX) There are two quick and fairly easy ways to deal with this if you're going to be making that particular switch often (doing this from memory so I hope I have it right). First hit the Brass/Synth button and call up Tenor Sax. Then, press and hold the button. After a few seconds you should see some kind of confirmation message on the screen. By doing this you will (I hope) have assigned Tenor Sax as the default patch for that button. Same principle as assigning presets on a car radio. I'm pretty sure this works on all RDs, and although I'd been playing RDs for the last six years I only discovered it a couple of months ago. Embarrassing, but I don't think it was documented in my manuals. Another option is to create and save a Live Set with piano as layer 1 and the sax as layer 2. Then you could use the layer switches to toggle the layers in turn. -Mike
Bigmc Posted December 13, 2014 Author Posted December 13, 2014 Thanks Mickey. It's seems rather Daft of Roland to create a stage piano that doesn't stay on selected tones. But I guess they're created by engineers , not musicians. I will give that a try. " I may not be as good a player as you but I'm having fun "
MonksDream Posted December 13, 2014 Posted December 13, 2014 Funny that this should come up today. I have an RD300GX and when I press a category button (piano, bass etc.) and choose a tone and then choose a tone in a different category my first chosen tone is called up when I go back to the previous category. Of course, everything is reset to stored defaults when I cycle the power. It's incredibly handy. I played a rented 300NX yesterday and was surprised when it didn't do that! is there no way to make the NX behave the same way the GX does? Instrumentation is meaningless - a song either stands on its own merit, or it requires bells and whistles to cover its lack of adequacy, much less quality. - kanker
Mickey Keys Posted December 14, 2014 Posted December 14, 2014 is there no way to make the NX behave the same way the GX does? Good question. But since my 700NX is now mothballed until I can sell it, I'm afraid I'm going to leave that one to others. -Mike
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