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Roland V-Combo VR-700 Workshop
Roland V-Combo VR-700 Workshop

Roland V-Combo VR-700 Workshop

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V-Combo
VR-700
Getting to Know the VR-700
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All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form without the
written permission of Roland Corporation U.S.
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  • Page 1 Workshop ®ÂØÒňΠ® V-Combo VR-700 Getting to Know the VR-700 © 2010 Roland Corporation U.S. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form without the written permission of Roland Corporation U.S. VR700WS01...
  • Page 2 About the V-Combo VR-700 Workshop Booklets Why the V-Combo? The Roland V-Combo VR-700 Stage Keyboard is designed for the working One Instrument Is All You Need musician, bringing together all the tools a gig demands. Roland’s acclaimed virtual tone-wheel organ technology, real harmonic bars, and waterfall If the organ is at the center of your keyboard make it a joy to play.
  • Page 3 The V-Combo’s display works in different ways depending on what you’re doing, but always provides helpful information and feedback on the current All demos are © 2010 Roland Corporation. operation or the state of the V-Combo.
  • Page 4: Function Mode

    If you think of the FUNCTION/ENTER button as digging down through connect an optional Roland PK-25A, PK-7A, or PK-5A (sold separately) to menus, DISPLAY/EXIT climbs back up and out of them.
  • Page 5 Trying Out Some Organ Sounds organ-based Favorites to try out now: Let’s listen to some organ sounds programmed at the Roland factory. The way organ sounds and setups of all kinds are stored on the V-Combo are Favorite Bank and Number Description as “Favorites.
  • Page 6 Here’s how to select—and listen to—the V-Combo tonewheel models: The V-Combo Harmonic Bars Press the FUNCTION button beneath the display—”Fnc” appears Every pitched sound in nature is made up of multiple pitches, or “frequencies, ” onscreen. playing together. In musical notes, that’s typically the note you hear, or the “fundamental, ”...
  • Page 7 • Here are the lengths, and pitches, associated with each drawbar: MANUAL button—to make the sound of the currently selected manual reflect the current position of the drawbars. This comes in handy when Lengths 16’ 5 ’ 8’ 4’ ’ 2’...
  • Page 8 Gospel: Selecting Rotary Speaker Amp Models The V-Combo gives you a choice of five high-quality, Roland COSM®- generated rotary-speaker amp models. Let’s check them out. Press the FUNCTION button beneath the display—”Fnc” appears onscreen. Working with the V-Combo Rotary Speaker Press the - and/or + buttons until “OrG”...
  • Page 9 Using Organ Percussion Setting the Sharpness of Harmonic Percussion Normally, percussion ends quickly, for maximum percussive effect. You can One of the key aspects of a classic organ sound is the presence of harmonic slow down the manner in which it decays using the SLOW button. To set “percussion.
  • Page 10 If you select a new tone while another one’s still sounding, note how the leads and pads that benefit from Roland’s undisputed synth know-how. V-Combo’s slick Tone Remain feature lets the first tone’s notes end naturally.
  • Page 11 Octave Pitch-Shifting In the V-Combo, there’s a dedicated effect processor for the ensemble tones. Each tone’s been assigned an effect at the Roland The V-Combo makes it simple to shift the pitch of the currently selected factory. You can turn a tone’s effect on or off, and set the amount ensemble tone up and down by octaves.
  • Page 12 The V-Combo Player Changing the Rhythm Tempo To change the rhythm’s tempo, press DISPLAY until the TEMPO indicator Playing the V-Combo’s Built-In Rhythms lights, and then use the - and/or + buttons to set the tempo as desired. The V-Combo contains 51 built-in rhythms with which you can play along or perform onstage.
  • Page 13 The End We hope you’ve found this workshop helpful. Keep an eye out for other V-Combo Workshop booklets available for downloading at www.RolandUS.com.