Roland GT-8 User Manual

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GT-8

Guitar Effects

Processor

TurboStart

TBS 232 ©2005 Roland Corporation U.S.

www.RolandUS.com

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Welcome

Congratulations on your purchase of the Roland
GT-8. This TurboStart contains step-by-step
instructions that will quickly introduce you to the
GT-8’s major features.

Setting Up the GT-8’s Outputs

For optimal sound, configure the GT-8’s outputs for
the device to which they’re connected to:

1. Press OUTPUT SELECT until “Output Select”
appears in the display.

2. Turn the PATCH/VALUE dial to choose the
desired option.

Select:

When you’re connected to:

JC-120

a Roland JC-120 input.
SMALL AMP

a small, or "practice," guitar
amp input.
COMBO AMP

a Combo Amp input.
STACK AMP

a Stack Amp input.
JC-120 Return

the effects return jack of a
Roland JC-120 amp.
COMBO Return

the effects return jack of a
Combo Amp.
STACK Return

the effects return jack of a
stack amp.
LINE/PHONES

headphones, a mixer or
recording device input.

3. Press EXIT when you’re finished.

Tuning the Guitar

The GT-8 features a built-in chromatic tuner that
allows you to tune your guitar quickly and easily.
Here’s how to use it:

1. Press the TUNER/BYPASS button so it’s lit.

2. Play your high open E string. The display shows
the name of the note closest in the pitch to the
string you’ve played.

3. Do a rough tuning so that “E” appears in the
display.

4. Tune the string more precisely until “❚“ appears
in the center. If “>” appears at the left of the
display, the pitch of the string is flat. If “<”
appears at the right of the display, the pitch is
sharp.

5. Repeat Steps 1-4 for the remaining strings.

Selecting Patches

A patch is a group of selected effect combinations
along with their individual settings. There are 140
user patches and 200 preset patches in the GT-8.
Patches are organized in banks of four. The user
banks contain patches U1-1 through U35-4. The
preset banks contain patches P36-1 through P85-4.
Use the following steps to select a patch:

1. Confirm you’re in the main (play) menu by
pressing EXIT a few times.

2. Press the BANK Up or BANK Down pedal to
select the desired bank.

3. Press Pedals 1-4 individually to select patches
within the bank.

4. You can also turn the PATCH/VALUE dial to
scroll through the banks and patches.

Clearing a Patch (Initialization)

You can clear, or “initialize,” any user patch. This can
be handy when you want to build a patch from
scratch, starting from a clean slate. Use the following
steps to initialize a user patch.

Note: Initializing completely resets the parameters of
the selected patch. If you’ve edited the current patch
and want to keep your edits, be sure to write the
patch to another user memory location—as described
on the next page—before initializing.

1. Turn the PATCH/VALUE dial or use the BANK
Up/Down and 1-4 pedals to select the user
patch you’d like to initialize.

2. Press the WRITE button.

3. Press the PARAMETER  button until
“Initialize” appears in the display. To cancel the
initialization process at this point, press EXIT.

4. Press WRITE. The patch is now initialized.

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Editing a Patch

Any patch in the GT-8 can be edited to your liking.
Use the following steps to edit a patch. In this
example, we’ll turn on and the adjust the parameters
of the delay, chorus and noise suppressor.

1. Select a patch to edit.

2. Press the DELAY button until “Delay On”
appears in the display, and then use the PATCH
VALUE dial and PARAMETER  buttons to
adjust the delay parameters as desired.

3. Press the CHORUS button until “Chorus On”
appears in the display, and then use the PATCH
VALUE dial and PARAMETER  to adjust
the chorus parameters.

Tip: Press any effect button twice to toggle its effect
on and off.

4. Press MASTER until “Noise Suppressor”
appears in the display. If the noise suppressor is
off, turn the PATCH/VALUE dial clockwise to
select On. Use the PATCH/VALUE dial and
PARAMETER  to adjust the noise
suppressor parameters as desired.

5. When you’re finished, press EXIT.

Saving a Patch

Once you’ve edited a patch, you must write it to one
of the 140 user locations to save your work. Follow
these steps to write a patch:

1. When you’re finished editing a patch, press the
WRITE button.

2. Turn the PATCH/VALUE dial to select a user
location from U1-1 to U35-4.

3. Press the WRITE button again.

Manual Mode

Manual Mode lets you turn on or off selected affects
in a patch using the GT-8’s 1-4 and BANK pedals:

1. Select Patch 36-1 (HiGAIN STACK).

2. Press MANUAL so it’s lit.

3. Press PARAMETER  once to view the effect
controlled by each pedal.

4. Press the 1-4 and Bank pedals to turn effects on
and off.

Tip: You can use the PARAMETER



buttons to
move the cursor, and then turn the PATCH/VALUE
dial to change the effect controlled by each pedal.

5. Press EXIT or MANUAL when you’re finished.

The FX Chain (Effects Chain)

Changing the order of effects is done within the “FX
Chain” of the GT-8. Positioning an effect before or
after another can significantly change the character
of a patch. Use the following steps to move an effect
within the FX Chain:

1. Press the FX CHAIN button.

2. Press PARAMETER  to place the stick-

figure cursor at the location to which you want to
move an effect.

3. Once you’ve chosen the desired position, press

the button belonging to the effect you want to
move.

4. Repeat Steps 2-3 for any other effects you’d like

to re-position.

5. When you’re finished, press EXIT to return to the

main (play) menu. If you want to save the
changes you’ve made, follow the steps in
“Saving a Patch” above.