Customizing The V-Piano Grand's Sounds; The V-Piano Grand's Parameters - Roland GRAND Owner's Manual

Customizing the V-Piano Grand's Sounds

The V-Piano Grand contains 30 different "tones."
These sounds are produced by a virtual piano inside the V-Piano
Grand. Unlike the way in which conventional digital pianos create
sound by processing samples recorded from an acoustic piano, the
V-Piano Grand uses digital signal processing to model the numerous
elements that make up an acoustic piano, and combines these to
create the sound of the piano.
The 30 "tones" built into the V-Piano Grand are not simple variations
of the sound. Rather, they are forms of pianos constructed within
the V-Piano Grand. By customizing these tones you can construct
your very own piano.

The V-Piano Grand's Parameters

Parameter Value Description
This changes how the sound is produced when
you play the keyboard softly.
You can adjust this to make the sound suitable
for solo playing, or to prevent your sound from
Sound Lift 0–+100 being buried by the other instruments of your
band.
With higher settings, the sound will be relatively
loud even when you play lightly, preventing
your sound from being lost in the band.
Soft Pedal
-100–+100 This adjusts the sensitivity of the soft pedal.
Sense
This adjusts the sympathetic vibration of the
strings that occurs when you play the keyboard.
This simulates not only the sympathetic
vibration that occurs when you play a single
String
-100–+100 note, but also the sympathetic vibration that
Resonance
occurs in strings that are already sounding
when you play subsequent notes.
Increasing this value will produce a greater
effect.
This adjusts the damper resonance of an
acoustic piano; i.e., the sound of other strings
Damper sympathetically vibrating when you play other
-100–+100
Resonance keys with the damper pedal held down.
Increasing this value will increase the loudness
of the sympathetic vibration.
This adjusts the sound of the soundboard
Soundboard resonating in response to the notes you play.
-100–+100
Resonance Increasing this value will increase the
soundboard resonance.
This adjusts the amount of resonances such as
an acoustic piano's key-off sound (the subtle
Key Off
-100–+100 sound that occurs when you release a key).
Resonance
Increasing this value will increase the amount of
resonance.
Parameter Value Description
Normally, there are three strings for each key of
a piano (lower notes have one or two strings). A
beautiful resonance can be created by slightly
detuning the pitch of these strings.
Adjusting this parameter to a higher positive (+)
value will increase the pitch differences
between the 2nd string and the 1st and 3rd
strings.
When this value is 0, the three strings will be
detuned as they are on a typically tuned piano.
Adjusting this parameter to a lower negative (-)
Unison Tune -100–+100
value will decrease the pitch differences between
the 2nd string and the 1st and 3rd strings. With
the setting of -100, the pitch differences between
the three strings will be minimum.
This parameter lets you make detailed
adjustments to the pitch of the 1st string and 3rd
string (p. 46).
Most pianos are tuned so that the lower range is
flatter and the upper range is sharper than the
theoretically calculated pitches of equal
temperament. This makes chords sound more
beautiful. This method of tuning is distinctive to
Stretch Tune ---
pianos, and is called "Stretch Tuning."
On the V-Piano Grand, the difference relative to
equal temperament can be adjusted
individually for each key. For details, refer to
"Editing the Stretch Tune" (p. 44).
This adjusts the hardness of the hammer felt.
Increasing this value will make the felt harder,
Hammer
-100–+100 producing a bolder sound.
Hardness
Decreasing this value will make the felt softer,
producing a softer tone.
This adjusts the proportion of the various
parasitic vibrations that occur along with the
basic vibration of the strings, which produces
the basic sound of the piano.
Increasing this value will increase the
Cross
-100–+100 proportion of the parasitic vibration.
Resonance
For the strings of the low notes in particular, this
will increase the metallic resonance of the high-
frequency range.
Lowering this value will decrease the proportion
of the parasitic vibration.
This adjusts the time over which the volume
decays after reaching its peak.
Decay Time -100–+100 Increasing this value will lengthen the time over
which the volume decays; reducing this value
will shorten the time.
This adjusts the tone color of the strings.
Increasing this value will produce a sharper and
brighter sound as though the strings had
Tone Color -7–+7 become thinner.
Decreasing this value will produce a milder and
warmer sound as though the strings had
become thicker.
This adjusts the time from when the damper
touches the strings until the sound disappears;
Damping i.e., the length of the release.
-100–+100
Time Increasing this value will lengthen the release,
and decreasing this value will shorten the
release.
This adjusts the damper noise of an acoustic
piano; i.e., the sound that is heard when you
Damper
-100–+100 press the damper pedal to release the strings.
Noise Level
Increasing this value will increase the sound
heard when the strings are released.
For tones of the "Vintage" piano
type (p. 31), this effect won't be
applied to notes below the E1 key.
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