Roland SonicCell SCWS06 user manual

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Expandable Synthesizer Module
SonicCell and Audio Interface
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Using SonicCell with GarageBand
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Understanding the Symbols in This Booklet About the Workshop Booklets Throughout this booklet, you’ll come across information that deserves Roland’s SonicCell is designed for modern musicians. Using USB, It adds a special attention—that’s the reason it’s labeled with one of the following huge set of sounds to your digital audio workstation (or “DAW”) without symbols. adding to your computer’s workload. It’s also an audio interface that can get signals from mics, instruments, or other device

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The Audio/MIDI pane should now look like this: To: • play SonicCell’s synth sounds—turn off SonicCell’s USB-MIDI Thru parameter so the incoming MIDI data goes to SonicCell’s tone generator. • play GarageBand’s soft synths—turn on SonicCell’s USB-MIDI Thru parameter so the incoming MIDI data passes through SonicCell and into GarageBand for playing its sounds. Using the SonicCell Editor with GarageBand The best way to use the SonicCell Editor with GarageBand is to run it as a 4 Click the Adv

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• category—click the CATEGORY parameter’s popup arrow to Using the SonicCell Editor reveal SonicCell’s patches divided into categories. Part-selection area Patch-selection area You can select performances stored in SonicCell using the PERFORM NAME popup located above the part-selection area. Digging Deeper The SonicCell Editor lets you change the current performance’s sounds in a range of ways. The mode-selection buttons to the left of the Editor window determine the parameters you see and c

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Selecting Audio to Record Turning Off Software Monitoring 1 Create a new real instrument track. 1 Set the Monitor popup below Input Source to Off. As we noted in the Using the SonicCell with a DAW Workshop booklet, you can listen through GarageBand if you want to hear its effects as 2 Select the Basic Track preset in the Track Info panel. you record. However, we recommend listening directly through the SonicCell to avoid latency. What You Hear Is What You Get SonicCell can produce synth sound

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Troubleshooting If you experience problems recording or playing back audio, GarageBand’s built-in Help provides steps you can take to solve your problem. Search in Help for “optimize”—the page of steps is called “Optimizing GarageBand Performance.” In addition to following these steps, raising the Audio Buffer size in the SonicCell’s control panel may also help, though it may also increase latency if you’re working with soft synths in GarageBand. The End We hope you’ve found this workshop h