Features - Roland XV-5050 Owner's Manual

Features

64-Voice Polyphony and 16-Part
Multitimbrality
The XV-5050 is a 16-part multitimbral sound generator that produces
up to 64 simultaneous polyphonic voices. It provides ample
polyphony, even with Patches containing multiple Tones.
Create Amazingly Expressive Tones
With Patches containing four stereo Tones, as well as four-Tone
instruments in Rhythm Sets—you can use up to a total of eight wave
types—the XV-5050 takes you the next step beyond Roland's
previous generation of JV-Series modules, providing even more
precise control and allowing you to create lusher, more expressive
sounds.
Powerful Internal Effects, Including
COSM Effects
The internal effects have been completely rethought and improved.
The reverb, the XV-5050's most central effect, incorporates the high-
quality SRV-3030 DSP, allowing the instrument itself to give great
spatial definition with superior, clear sound.
In addition, the XV-5050 features Multi-effects (MFX) with 90 kinds
of effects, including RSS and 3D Delay, Slicer, and Formant Filter.
What's more, the XV-5050 also features a variety of combinations of
different effects, such as the Guitar Amp Simulator, made possible
with COSM technology; Guitar Multi, which lets you get just the
right guitar, bass, and keyboard sounds; Bass Multi, and Keyboard
Multi, all of which let you create even more powerful sounds.
Furthermore, you can use three different MFX systems when in
Performance mode, and use each MFX on any Part you select.
On top of all this, each output is supplied with two-band EQ.
Digital Out for Complete Compatibility
with Digital Systems
The XV-5050's output systems not only include four parallel analog
outs that can also be used as two stereo pairs, but also S/P DIF
digital outputs (optical and coaxial) as well.
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Equipped with a USB Connector
The XV-5050 has a USB connector on its front panel, so that you can
easily connect your computer.
Supports General MIDI system Level 2
The XV-5050 provides a mode compatible with General MIDI
System Level 2, the standard format for desktop music (DTM)
systems. The upwardly compatible General MIDI 2 standards pick
up where the original General MIDI standard left off, offering
enhanced expressive capabilities and even greater compatibility.
You can play back commercially available General MIDI-compatible
song data.
Greater Expansion Possibilities with
the New-Format Wave Expansion
Boards
The XV-5050 accepts up to two of Roland's new-format Wave
Expansion Boards (SRX Series).
All of this provides you unprecedented power in creating sounds
from a massive amount of waveform data.
Featuring the Patch Finder and Phrase
Preview Functions
The XV-5050 provides a Patch Finder function that allows you to
quickly find Patches of a specified type or category.
Press the XV-5050's [PHRASE PREVIEW] button to preview the
selected Patch with a musically appropriate Phrase.
Registering a Patch in the FAVORITE
LIST
You can keep the Patches that you like to use all in one place by
registering them on the Favorite List. The FAVORITE LIST gives you
immediate access to your favorite Patches, whether they are in the
XV-5050 itself, on Wave Expansion Boards, or on memory cards. You
can register up to 64 Patches in this list.