Roland Lucina AX-09 Owner's manual

Brand: Roland

Model: Lucina AX-09

Type: Owner's manual

Roland Lucina AX-09 is a new concept of synthesizer that lets you enjoy playing a synthesizer anytime and anywhere. The instrument provides a wide variety of sounds, from synthesizer and pad sounds to piano, organ, strings, brass, guitar, and bass sounds. It features controllers and a D Beam that you can use to modify the sound, and you can also connect your portable audio player and play along with your favorite songs. The Lucina AX-09 is a great choice for beginners and experienced players alike, and it's a versatile instrument that can be used for a variety of musical genres.

Quick Guide

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Life with a Musical Instrument!

Roland’s Lucina AX-09 is the new shape of synthesizers. It represents a new concept that lets you...

Enjoy playing a synthesizer anytime and anywhere.

Enjoy the lifestyle of playing a musical instrument.

This “Quick Guide” explains basic operation in a way that should be understandable even to someone who’s never

touched a synthesizer before.

Now let’s pick up the Lucina AX-09 and start enjoying “life with a musical instrument”!

Before using this unit, carefully read the sections entitled: “USING THE UNIT SAFELY” (Owner’s Manual) and “IMPORTANT NOTES” (Owner’s Manual). These sections provide important information concerning the proper operation of the

unit. Additionally, in order to feel assured that you have gained a good grasp of every feature provided by your new unit, Owner’s Manual should be read in its entirety. The manual should be saved and kept on hand as a convenient reference.

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Connect the Lucina AX-09 to your ampli ed speakers, and turn

on the power switch.

The Lucina AX-09 contains a wide variety of sounds. This

chapter explains how to select sounds.

The Lucina AX-09 has controllers and a D Beam that you can use

to modify the sound. This chapter explains how to use them.

You can connect your portable audio player to the Lucina AX-09

and play the Lucina AX-09 along with your favorite songs. You

can also copy your audio  les (MP3, WAV, AIFF) to USB memory

and play them through the Lucina AX-09.

First attach the strap!

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For details, refer to p. 7 in the “Owner’s Manual.”

Contents

Getting Ready

Selecting Sounds

Performing

Playing Along with a

Favorite Song

Getting

Ready

In order to hear sound, you’ll need to use an audio cable to connect the Lucina AX-09 to

ampli ed speakers (which from here on we’ll simply call “speakers”).

Once you’ve got everything hooked up, turn on the power switch.

Connect the AC adaptor.

Wrap the cord from the AC adaptor around the

cord hook as shown in the illustration.

You can also use batteries.

You can connect headphones (sold separately).

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For details, refer to p. 7 in the “Owner’s Manual.”

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For details, refer to p. 6 in the “Owner’s Manual.”

You can connect headphones that

have a stereo mini-plug (1/8” plug).

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Connect your speakers (sold separately). Turn on the [POWER] switch.

Use the [VOLUME] knob to raise the volume.

2 3

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For details, refer to p. 8 in the “Owner’s Manual.”

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For details, refer to p. 8 in the “Owner’s Manual.”

First, minimize the volume of the Lucina AX-09 and your speakers.

Then, switch on the Lucina AX-09’s power, and  nally power up your speakers.

Slowly turn the knob toward the

right.

Play the keyboard while you adjust

the volume of the Lucina AX-09 and

the speakers.

Use audio cables (PCS series; sold separately) to

make this connection.

It’s a good idea to pass the speaker

cables behind the strap as shown in the

illustration.

Selecting

Sounds

Press one of the [1]–[6] buttons to select a group.

Try playing the keyboard. You’ll hear the tone you selected.

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For details on each tone, refer to the “Tone List” at the back of the

owner’s manual.

Try playing the keyboard. You’ll hear the tone you selected.

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For details on each tone, refer to the “Tone List” at the back of the

If you press the [PREVIEW] button, the Lucina AX-09 will

play a demo for the selected tone using an appropriate

phrase.

Each group contains variations 1–24. The display shows the variation

number.

Pressing the [INC/+] button increments the number by one, and

pressing the [DEC/–] button decrements it by one.

This chapter explains how to select sounds.

On the Lucina AX-09, the sounds you can select and play are called “tones.”

There are two kinds of tones: “Regular Tones” and “Special Tones.”

What are Regular Tones?

Regular tones are organized into six groups, with 24 variations in each group. In

other words, the Lucina AX-09 has 144 regular tones.

What are Special Tones?

These are six high-quality, very expressive tones that were created speci cally

for the Lucina AX-09.

Selecting a Regular Tone

Convenient previewing

Group Explanation

1 SYNTH / PAD Synthesizer/pad (sustained synth) sounds

2 PIANO / KEYBOARD Piano and keyboard sounds

3 ORGAN / ACCORDION Organ and accordion sounds

4 STRINGS / CHOIR String and chorus sounds

5 BRASS / W WINDS Brass and woodwind sounds

6 GUITAR / BASS Guitar and bass sounds

What is a Tone?

Use the [INC/+] [DEC/–] buttons to select a variation.

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Hold down the [SPECIAL TONE] button and press one of

the [1]–[6] buttons.

Press the [WRITE] button.

Press the bank [A] or [B] button, and then press one of

the [1]–[6] buttons.

Hold down the bank [A] or [B] button, and press one of

the [1]–[6] buttons.

Try playing the keyboard. You’ll hear the special tone you selected.

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For details, refer to p. 9 in the “Owner’s Manual.”

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For details, refer to p. 10 in the “Owner’s Manual.”

The tone will be registered to the selected bank and number.

The favorite tone that you registered in the selected bank and number will be recalled.

You can register twelve of your favorite tones (six each in banks A and B). (Special Tones

cannot be registered.)

Before you continue, select the tone that you want to register.

Selecting a Special Tone Registering Favorite Tones

Recalling a Favorite Tone

Special Tone Explanation

1 SYNTH 1 Lead synthesizer sound suitable for solo playing

2 SYNTH 2 Polyphonic synthesizer sound suitable for chords

3 SYNTH BASS Synth bass sound

4 VIOLIN Violin sound

5 TROMBONE Trombone sound

6 JAZZ SCAT Jazz scat sound

Press the [+] button to raise the key range by one octave.

Press the [–] button to lower the key range by one octave.

Hold down the [TRANSPOSE] button and use the [+] / [–]

buttons to raise/lower the key range in steps of a semitone.

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For details, refer to p. 11 in the “Owner’s Manual.”

You can change the key range by a

maximum of +/–3 octaves.

To return to the original key range,

press the [+] and [–] buttons

simultaneously.

You can change the key range by -5–+6

semitones.

To return to the original key range, hold

down the [TRANSPOSE] button and the [+]

/ [–] buttons simultaneously.

The Lucina AX-09 has controllers and a D Beam that you can use to modify the sound. This

chapter explains how to use these.

Raising or Lowering the Key Range by Octaves

Raising or Lowering the Key Range by Semitones

When do I use them?

Raising or lowering the key range by octaves

You can raise or lower the range of the keyboard in steps of one octave, for a

maximum of three octaves upward or downward.

Raising or lowering the key range by semitones

If you lower the key range by a semitone, pressing the “C” key will sound the

“B” note. For example, if you’re playing a song that’s in B-major, you might  nd

that the  ve sharps of that key make the  ngering di cult. In this case, you

could lower the key range by a semitone, and play the song using C-major

 ngering—in other words, using just the white keys!

Touch controller

The touch controller lets you vary the pitch by moving your  nger. For

example, you can use this to simulate the way in which a guitarist bends the

pitch of a string.

D Beam

You can vary the sound by moving your hand over the D Beam sensor.

For example, if you’ve selected PITCH, the pitch will change when you move

your hand over the D Beam while playing the keyboard.

Performing

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If you place your  nger on the touch controller and move

it to left and right, the pitch will change.

By pressing the modulation bar you can apply vibrato.

Press a button to select the D Beam e ect.

While you perform, position your hand above the

D Beam sensor and move it slowly up and down.

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For details, refer to p. 11 in the “Owner’s Manual.”

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For details, refer to p. 12 in the “Owner’s Manual.”

For the special tones “VIOLIN” and “TROMBONE,” pressing the modulation bar will

vary the dynamics (expression).

D Beam

Explanation

PITCH Modi es the pitch of the sounds you play.

FILTER Modi es the tonal character of the sound you play.

ASSIGNABLE

Allows you to assign a desired e ect. With the factory settings, an e ect

appropriate for each tone will be applied.

Using the Touch Controller and Modulation Bar

Using the D Beam

When you press a button

so it’s lit, the e ect listed

in the table below will be

applied.

If you press the lit button

once again, the D Beam

will turn o .

Playing Along

with a Favorite

Song

Connect your portable audio player.

Play back a song on your portable audio player, and play

along on the Lucina AX-09.

You can connect your portable audio player to the Lucina AX-09, and play the Lucina

AX-09 along with your favorite songs.

You can also copy audio  les (MP3, WAV, AIFF) from your computer to USB memory, and

play them through the Lucina AX-09.

Connecting a Portable Audio Player and Playing Along

with a Song

What  les can I play from USB memory?

You can play MP3, WAV, or AIFF  les.

Files of the following formats can be played.

MP3

Format MPEG-1 audio layer 3

Sampling Frequency 44.1 kHz

Bit Rate

32/40/48/56/64/80/96/112/128/160/192/224/256/320 kbps,

VBR (Variable Bit Rate)

WAV, AIFF

Sampling Frequency 44.1 kHz

Bit Rate 8/16/24 -bit

Use a stereo mini (1/8”) cable (sold separately)

to connect your player to the EXT IN jack.

Use the controls of your player to adjust the volume.

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When the button

lights up, the Lucina

AX-09 is ready to

play songs from USB

memory.

Playback will start

when the button

lights.

Press the button

once again to pause

playback.

Copying Audio Files (MP3, WAV, AIFF) to USB Memory for Playback on the Lucina AX-09

The Lucina AX-09 can play back audio  les

(MP3, WAV, AIFF) from USB memory.

Before you proceed, you’ll need to copy the

audio  les from your computer to the root

level of your USB memory, and insert the USB

memory into the Lucina AX-09.

Press the [AUDIO PLAYER] button.

Press the [

] button to play the song.

To select a song, hold down the [AUDIO PLAYER] button

and use the [INC/+] or [DEC/–] button.

The songs will be in the order of their  le name (in order of

numerals, uppercase letters, lowercase letters). Hold down the

[AUDIO PLAYER] button and press the [INC/+] button to jump to

the next song, or the [DEC/–] button to jump to the beginning of

the current song (or the preceding song if you’re already at the

beginning of the song).

You can set things such as the song’s playback volume

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For details, refer to p. 15 in the “Owner’s Manual.”

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For details, refer to p. 14 in the “Owner’s Manual.”

You can set the song’s playback volume, and also specify whether

playback is to stop for each song, or play consecutively without stopping.

MP3, WAV, AIFF

Copy to USB drive

Insert USB memory

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Roland Lucina AX-09 Owner's manual

Roland Lucina AX-09 Owner's manual

Roland Lucina AX-09 Owner's manual

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