Roland MC-909 Owner's Manual page 69

Parameter Value
Tone Delay
This produces a time delay between the moment a key is pressed (or released) and the moment the Tone actually begins to sound. Since you can
adjust the timing of each Tone in a Patch, you can create effects in which pressing a single key produces two or more sounds occurring at differ-
ent times. If you don't wish to use Tone Delay, set Tone Dly to NORMAL and Tone Delay Time to 0.
Tone Delay Mode NORM,
HOLD,
OFFN,
OFFD
Tone Delay Time 0–127, note
note:
fig.
(Sixty-fourth-note triplet), (Sixty-fourth note),
(Sixteenth note), (Eighth-note triplet),
(Dotted quarter note), (Half note),
Description
Specifies how the tone will be sounded
* If you have selected a decay-type waveform (in which the sound disappears naturally even if you do
not release the key), the sound may not be heard if you set this parameter to OFFN or OFFD.
NORM (NORMAL): The Tone sounds after the specified Delay Time.
Delay Time
press key
HOLD: The Tone will only sound if the key is held for longer than the specified Delay Time. If the key
is released before the Delay Time has elapsed, the Tone will not sound.
Delay Time
press key
OFFN (KEY-OFF-NORMAL): The Tone doesn't sound while the key is being pressed, but sounds af-
ter the specified Delay Time when the key is released.
press key
OFFD (KEY-OFF-DECAY): The Tone doesn't sound while the key is being pressed, but sounds after
the specified Delay Time when the key is released. However, for this setting-unlike KEY-OFF-NOR-
the TVA envelope of the Tone begins when the key is first pressed. As a result, in most cases, only the
decay portion of the sound is heard.
press key
Time by which each tone will be delayed when using tone delay
If you've selected a Structure Type of 2–10, the output of tone 1 (3) and 2 (4) will be combined into
tone 2 (4). Thus, the setting of tone 1 (3) will have no effect.
(Thirty-second-note triplet),
(Dotted sixteenth note), (Eighth note),
(Whole-note triplet), (Dotted half note),
release key
Delay
Time
release key press key release key
Delay
Time
release key
Delay
Time
release key
(Thirty-second note), (Sixteenth-note triplet),
(Quarter-note triplet), (Dotted eighth note),
(Whole note), (Double-note triplet),
Patch Edit
Tone does
not sound
(Dotted thirty-second note),
(Quarter note), (Half-note triplet),
(Dotted whole note), (Double note)
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