Hello everybody,

in this workshop I would like to talk about the Song and Style Make Up Tools.
With this great feature you can easily change sounds and mixer settings in the Midifiles or the Styles of the G-70.
Actually, the Make Up Tools in the G-70 are the most powerful, easiest and fasted tools for changing Sounds and Settings in Midifiles or Styles, currently existing. Roland has recently presented a new SRX Expansion Card especially developed for the G-70. This card offers a lot of fantastic new sounds, Drum Sets and even some Drum Loops. Off course you can just play those sounds on the Keyboard but you can as well assign those sounds to the different tracks in the style.
And that’s exactly what we are going to do now.

As a prerequisite you should have the new SR-G01 card installed into your G-70, as well as the Software Version 2 (which you can download for free on this website).
If you do not have the SRG-01 card, you can still participate at the workshop, but you should then select other sounds, because you do not have the SRG-01 sounds that I am using here.

Also in order to be able to select all sounds that are available in the G-70 we should change the Sound Set mode from best to Extended. (This has nothing to do with the Expansion Card. This is a basic function of the G-70)

Please press Menu on the right side of the display. And then press Utility on the screen.

In the Startup Folder you will find the Sound Set Mode, which you should set to Extended. The G-70 will remember this setting also after being switched off.
Press Exit.
The most significant result in changing sounds in a style you will experience by changing the Bass and the Drumkit.
Let’s select the style Cool Live Band. You will find this style in the category “Live Band”.

Press Exit.
Also let’s switch on the Arranger in the Keyboard Mode Area on the Panel of the G-70. Now please press the Make Up Tools button on the right side of the Display.
 

The first thing we would like to do now is to change the Drum Sound of the style.
Play a Chord on the left side and press Play, so that you can listen to the style.
Please move to the Drum Track by pressing the right Arrow in the lower right corner of the touch screen, and then touch the name of the Drum Sound. This will lead you directly into the environment where you can select the sounds.











You can try any Drum Set there and listen to the result. Some results may sound good; some may be a little bit funny.
In this particular example I would like to recommend using the Drum Set “Studio X Kit2” coming from the new SR-G01. You will find this sound on Page 5 of the Drum Sets. Also there is a green indication (EXP) showing that this sound is coming from the SRX board installed.
You can directly hear a big difference in sound impact! Actually this particular Drum Set is coming from ROLAND’s fantastic Fantom X Series!
Press Exit!

In the next step we are going to change the Bass sound.
Therefore we will press the right arrow in the down right corner of the touch screen and move to page 2.

Now please select “X 5String Bs” on page 29 of the sound list and listen to the result!
Much more impact, in deed, because again, this sound is derived from ROLAND’s Fantom X Series.

Press Exit.

Now it would be a good moment for saving the style.
Press Save on the Screen.


I just added the two letters MU (Make Up Tools) to the style name so that I don’t confuse the style with the original version anymore.
Press Execute.
Press Exit.

As a next step we are going to change the Strings on Page 4.

On the SR-G01 card there are very beautiful Symphonic Strings, that you will find on page 12 after pressing the Sound name in the Screen.

Press Exit.

Now, we will save the style again. (The instructions for doing so you will find a little bit further above in this workshop). Basically we are done for the moment with assigning new sounds to this style.
As a reference you can download it here.

Style Cool Live Band MU

Download

You can find the Instruction for assigning the style into the internal memory of your G-70 in Tips&Tricks vol 3

Please, download the following User Program, and put it into the internal memory of your G-70.

MU tools 01

Download

So please connect a USB cable from your computer to the G-70, press Menu (next to the display on the right side), USB Data Storage, and “Internal Memory” on the Touch Screen of the Keyboard.




You will now find an additional hard drive with the Name G70_SSD on your computer.
Please copy the style into the folder “Put New User Programs Here”.
After that please close the connection between the G-70 and your computer by pressing, “disconnect” on the touch screen (Mac Users will have to unmount the Hard Disk that they will find on the desktop of their computer).





You may then press the flashing Exit button and disconnect the USB cable.





Now please press the “User PRG Switch” in the Finder area on the Panel of the G-70.
This will update the Database and you will be able to find the style in the style list of the finder.
Please, select the User Program “MU Tools 01” and play a little bit on the G-70.

In this User Program I have created a nice Piano/Electric Piano Sound ambience with a Wah Wah Guitar on the left, and a great new Soprano Saxophone on the Upper 3 Split Zone in the highest Octave of the G-70.

Press Exit.











For practising you could repeat this workshop with any other style and with any other sound assignment that you like. 
Off course you can do the same thing using the Song Makeup Tools for modifying Standard Midifiles in this unique and simple way that the G-70 is offering.
The Makeup Tools are off course working with any Standard Midifile that you can buy in the market.

Congratulations and enjoy using the great Makeup Tools.
Ralf Schink