Selecting Sound Libraries - Roland XV-5080 Quick Start Manual

What is a Performance?
With Performances, you can combine a total of up to 32 separate Patches and
Rhythm Sets to enjoy ensemble performances featuring rich tones. In other
words, using Performances allows you to control 32 separate tones with a
single XV-5080. A sound module that can simultaneously produce multiple
sounds is called a multitimbral sound module.
What is a Rhythm Set?
Rhythm sets are groups of a number of different percussion instrument
sounds. Percussion sounds are not generally used in performing melodies,
so it is immaterial that they cannot be played at different pitches on the
keyboard. However, it is important that, as much as possible, a number of
percussion instruments perform together. Therefore, the Rhythm Sets are
set up so that you can get different sets of percussion sounds by pressing
different keys (note numbers).

Selecting Sound Libraries

On the XV-5080, tone data is stored in what are called "SOUND LIBRARY."
The SOUND LIBRARY is divided into four "groups": USER, CARD,
PRESET, and EXP.
You can easily select the desired group simply by pressing the SOUND
LIBRARY button (USER/CARD/PRESET/EXP) for each group.
fig.00-022.e
USER (User Memory)
This is the XV-5080's group of internal rewritable tones. Save the tones that
you create to this library.
CARD (Memory Card)
This library uses sounds from a commercially available memory card
(SmartMedia) inserted into the MEMORY CARD slot.
When saving a file to the card, you can directly select Tones contained on
the card — even without loading the files into the USER memory — by
specifying the Bank (CD-A through CD-H). (Saving All Data to Memory
Card, Owner's Manual; p. 195)
Try Out the Sounds
CARD can be selected only
if a formatted memory card
is inserted in the MEMORY
CARD slot.
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