Configuring A Tone - Roland SH-4d Owner's Manual

Creating a Tone

Configuring a Tone

1. Hold down the [SHIFT] button and press the [1]–[5] buttons to select a tone part.
2. Hold down the [SHIFT] button and press the [6] button.
The TONE screen appears.
Item Value
Level 0–127
Octave -3–+3
Coarse Tune -48–+48
OSC 2 Coarse -48–+48
Tune
0–127
Analog Feel
Sets whether the tones play in polyphonic (POLY) or monophonic (MONO) mode.
Mono Poly MONO
POLY
OFF, ON
Legato Sw
OFF, ON
Porta Sw
This sets the playing style for applying portamento.
NORMAL Portamento is always applied.
Porta Mode
LEGATO
0–1023
Porta Time
-100–
Amp Velo
+100
Sense
38
Adjusts the overall volume for all tones.
Sets the pitch of the tone's sound in octaves (up to ±3 octaves).
Specifies the pitch in semitone steps (maximum ±4 octaves).
Sets the pitch of oscillator 2 in semitones (only when using the SYNC model).
Changes the pitch and volume over time of the tone that's playing, to give the tone a more irregular
feel.
Higher values produce more irregularity, which results in a more unstable sound (only when using
SH-4d, SH-3D, SYNC, SH-101, JUNO-106, Cross FM, RING, CHORD or PCM models).
Only one sound at a time plays, and only the last key you played produces sound.
More than one sound can play at the same time.
This is enabled when "Mono Poly" is set to "MONO".
When "Legato Sw" is "ON", you play a note while holding down the first note (legato style), the
second note you play sounds without its attack portion.
This lets you smoothly connect the pitches without a gap in the notes.
Select "ON" to apply portamento, or "OFF" if you don't want to apply portamento.
* Portamento is a glide effect that smoothly connects the pitches of the first and second notes
that you play on the keyboard.
When "Mono Poly" is set to "MONO" and portamento is applied, you can obtain slide effects
like the sound of playing a violin.
Portamento is only applied when you play in legato style (playing one key and then playing the next
while holding down the first one).
When portamento is used, this sets the speed taken for the pitch to change.
Higher settings cause the pitch to take longer when gliding to the next note.
Set this to change the tone volume according to how hard you play the keys.
Positive values make the tone sound louder when you play the keys harder, and negative values
make the tone sound softer.
Explanation