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Roland VK-7 Owner's Manual (151 pages)

Brand: Roland | Category: Music Mixer | Size: 7.22 MB

Important Safety Instructions
2
Grounding
2
Using the Unit Safely
3
Important Notes
4
Power Supply
4
Placement
4
Memory Backup
4
Contents
5
Features
8
Organ Sounds
8
Orchestral Sound Source
8
Other Features
8
Panel Descriptions
9
Front Panel
9
Percussion
9
Organ Presets
9
Split
10
Orchestral Assign
10
Orchestral Voices
11
Harmonic Bar Part
11
Rear Panel
12
Rotary Sound
12
Before Playing the Sounds
14
Connections
14
Turning on the Power
15
Power on Condition
15
Adjusting the Volume
16
Turning off the Power
16
Modifying the Sound While You Play
17
Types of Sound
17
Playing Organ Sounds
17
Selecting an Organ Preset
17
Selecting a Sound from 16 Types of Organ Preset
18
Selecting a Sound from 64 Types of Organ Preset
18
Creating the Basic Sound
19
Basic Patterns of Harmonic Bar Settings
20
Flute-Type Sounds
21
Reed-Type Sounds
21
Diapason-Type Sounds
22
String-Type Sounds
22
Making the Sound Match the Harmonic Bar Settings
22
Adding Snap to the Sound
23
Second Percussion
23
Third Percussion
23
Percussion Soft
24
Adding Vibrato or Depth to the Sound
25
Percussion Slow
25
Distorting the Sound for a Hard-Rock Feeling
26
Overdrive Knob
26
Adding the Modulation of a Rotary Speaker
27
Changing the Rotational Speed of the Speaker
27
Stopping the Rotary Effect
27
Bypass
28
Adding Dynamics to the Volume
28
Adding Reverberance to the Sound
29
Reverb Knob
29
Combining a Non-Organ Sound to Make a New Sound
30
Layering an Orchestral Voice with an Organ Preset
31
Playing Only an Orchestral Voice
32
Playing the Bass in the Left Hand
33
Selecting a User Preset
35
How the VK-7 Is Organized
37
About the Sounds
37
About the Organ Presets
37
About the Orchestral Voices
38
About the User Presets
39
Sounds and Memory
39
System Memory
40
Preset Memory
40
Temporary Area
40
About the Effects
41
Chorus
41
Vibrato
41
For an Organ Preset
41
About the VK-7'S Modes
42
About Return Levels and Send Levels
42
User Preset Mode
42
Edit Mode
42
About the Screen Display
43
User Presets
43
Write Mode
44
Modifying Sounds in Detail and Saving Them
45
Setting the Volume for each Preset
45
Creating a Vintage Organ Feel
46
Tone Wheel
46
Leakage Noise
46
Key Click
46
Key off Click Level
47
Pedal H. Bar
47
Percussion Settings
48
Setting the Various Parameters
48
Percussion Soft Level
48
Percussion Norm Level
48
Percussion Fast Time
49
Percussion Direct
49
Percussion Assign
49
Vibrato/Chorus Settings
50
Giving the Organ Sound a Metallic Tone
51
Ring Modulator
51
Ring Modulator Frequency
51
Overdrive Settings
51
Rotary Settings
52
EQ Middle
52
EQ Treble
52
Rotary Speed
53
Rotary Level
53
Rotary Woofer Transition
53
Rotary Tweeter Transition
53
Fast
54
Slow
54
Rotary Tweeter Speed
54
Modifying the Settings of an Orchestral Voice
55
Setting the Volume for each Orchestral Voice
55
Boosting/Cutting the High Frequency Range
58
Orchestral Voice Modify Brilliance
58
Modulating the Sound
59
Orchestral Voice Modify Pitch LFO Depth
59
Orchestral Voice Modify LFO Rate
59
Adjusting the Pitch of an Orchestral Voice
60
Orchestral Pitch Key Shift
60
Orchestral Pitch Offset Fine
60
Causing Keyboard Dynamics to Affect the Volume
61
Velocity Sensitivty
61
Adding Depth to the Sound
62
Modifying the Settings of a User Preset
63
Split Point
63
Changing the Pitch in Octave Units
64
Octave Shift Main Keyboard
64
Octave Shift Sub Keyboard
64
Adding Reverberation to the Sound
65
Organ Reverb Send Level
65
Orchestral Reverb Send Level
65
Setting the Orchestral Reverb Send Level
66
Assigning a Name
68
Organ Preset Name
68
Assigning a Name to User Preset
69
Saving Sounds or Settings
70
Saving an Organ Preset
70
Settings that Affect the Entire VK-7
74
Adjusting the Overall Pitch
74
Transposing the Entire Instrument
74
Key Transpose
74
Procedure for System Settings
76
Copying a Preset
77
User Preset Copy
77
Organ Preset Copy
78
Exchanging a Preset with Another Preset
80
Initializing Presets or Orchestral Voice
84
Restoring the Factory Settings
88
Factory Setup
88
Listening to the Demo Songs
89
Demo Single Play
89
Demo Chain Play
89
Using a Expression Pedal
91
Pedal Switch to Operate Functions
91
Setting the Polarity of the Pedal Connected
91
Assigning a Function of the Pedal
92
Roto Brake
93
Orch Glide
93
Wheel Brake
93
Preset up
93
Setting the Control Method for Rotary
94
Specifying the Function
94
Modifying an Orchestral Voice
96
Orchestral Auto Glide
96
Orchestral Glide Rate
96
Switching the Part Controlled by the Harmonic Bars
98
Transmitting/Receiving Harmonic Bar Settings
99
Using an External Keyboard to Play VK-7 Sounds
101
Turning Program Change Reception On/Off
102
Setting the Receive Channel
103
Rx User Preset Control Channel
103
Rx Organ Control Channel
103
Rx Main Organ Channel
104
Rx Sub Organ Channel
104
Rx Pedal Organ Channel
104
Recording Your Playing an a Sequencer
105
Local Control
105
Making the Local Control Setting
106
Adding MIDI THRU Functionality to the MIDI out Connector
107
Setting the Transmit Channel
108
Tx User Preset Control Channel
109
Tx Organ Control Channel
109
Tx Main Organ Channel
109
Using a Sequencer to Play the Sounds of the VK-7
111
Playing an External Sound Source
112
Turning Program Change Transmission On/Off
112
Transmitting VK-7 Settings as MIDI Data
113
Setting the TV Program Change Switch
113
Bulk Dump
114
How to Receive MIDI Data
115
Connecting a Rotary Speaker
116
Troubleshooting
118
Power Does Not Turn on
118
No Sound
118
Cannot Hear Organ Sounds
118
Cannot Hear Orchestral Voices
119
Cannot Hear Percussion
119
Cannot Select an Orchestral Voice
119
Pitch Is Wrong
119
Overdrive Does Not Apply
120
Rotary Does Not Apply
120
Reverb Does Not Apply
120
Error Messages
121
Messages that Appear When the Power Is Turned on
121
MIDI Related Messages
121
Battery Low
121
Memory-Related Messages
122
MIDI Communication Error
122
Memory Damaged
122
Organ Preset List
123
Orchestral Voice
125
User Preset
125
EIDT Mode Parameter List
126
What Is MIDI?
127
About MIDI Connectors
127
MIDI in Connector
127
MIDI out Connector
127
About MIDI Channels
128
Major Types of MIDI Message Used by the VK-7
129
Channel Messages
129
Note on
129
Recognized Receive Data
130
Channel Voice Messages
130
Control Change
130
Program Change
130
Reset All Controllers
131
System Realtime Messages
131
Data Request
131
Transmitted Data
132
Parameter Address Map
134
System Common
134
Orchestral Tone Modify
135
Address Block Map
137
Supplementary Material
137
Decimal/Hexadecimal Table
137
ASCII Code Table
138
Specification
141
Composer of Demo Song
147
Joey Defrancesco
147

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