• Quick Guidebook 2008© Copyright Roland Corporation 1/39. • Creating Your Playlist - Play your audio/midi files in order Playing Your Playlist on GW-8 Performance – Saving your favorite settings Analog Modify Knobs – Use the GW-8 like an analog synthesizer D Beam – Move your hands! Melody Intelligence – Play harmony with just one finger 5. • Guidebook, you will see most of the main features with explanations, pictures and screenshots. With this book, you can quickly start playing the GW-8 when you read this guidebook entirely, but it’s very important to read the Owner’s Manual for complete and detailed information about the equipment. Let’s Play the GW-8 Features: Page Selecting Tones – How to select Tones for Upper and Lower Favorite Function – Register your favorite Tones Numeric Buttons – Select Tones and Music Styles quickly Keyboard Mode – Choose Single, Split or Dual mode Key Touch –. • – How to select Tones for Upper and Lower The GW-8 has 896 Basic (default) sounds, 256 GM2 sounds plus World Bank (localized) sounds (excluding drum kit sounds).

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All the Basic sounds are divided into 7 banks (0 to 6). To select a tone, press the bank sound and turn VALUE dial to choose the tone. • Skydiver: A kind of harp and koto, with tap pan delay. Good for lounge music. RHYTHM BANK (Drum Kits) All drum kits of GW-8, including the GM2 sets. WORLD BANK The GW-8 has its own WORLD BANK, with localized tones. • TIPS: Press the bank button and press [ENTER] button to see the list of sounds and the sound categories from this bank.

Some banks have two or more categories. To choose it, use 7/39. • avorite Function - Register your favorite Tones The Favorite Function allows you to register your favorite tones on each bank. With this feature, you can load your favorite sounds very quickly. See how to register your favorite sounds: 1) Select the tone you desire 2) Hold down the button FAVORITE [ON/OFF] and press one of [0]-[9] buttons to register the sound You can register up to ten sounds, one for each bank [0] to [9]. • For greater speed, you can use the numeric buttons of GW-8 to select Tones, Music Styles and Performances.

See how to use the numeric buttons: 1) Use the CURSOR buttons up to the numerical value of the TONE 2) Press the button [NUMERIC]. • Mode - Choose Single, Split or Dual mode The GW-8 has three modes to play: (1) SINGLE: Plays just one sound at time (2) SPLIT: Plays one sound at the right side (Upper) and other sound at the left side (Lower) (3) DUAL: Plays two sounds at the same time (simultaneously) When the lights in both of [SPLIT] and [DUAL] buttons are turned off, you are in SINGLE mode. • Sometimes, the user may feel that the upper sound is too quiet and that he needs to play very hard to hear the sound.

With this feature, you can adjust the GW-8’s parts to your taste. Let’s see how: 1) Press the [KEY TOUCH] button so it is lit. You will see the Key Touch screen. • ey Scale - Select Arabian and other scales The Key Scale lets you switch the kind of scale, with different temperaments used in Western music.

See how to use the Key Scale: 1) Press [KEY SCALE] so the button is lit. The Key Scale window will open: 2) With the CURSOR buttons, select the item you want to adjust, and use the VALUE dial to change the value. • – How to change the octave Sometimes you need to play notes that you don’t have on a keyboard with 61 keys, like the GW-8.