How To Use This Manual; Notation Used In This Owner's Manual - Roland V-Synth Owner's Manual

How To Use This Manual

This owner's manual is organized as follows.
For details on all the patches and waves that the V-Synth contains,
refer to the separate "Sound List."
Quick Start (p. 19)
This chapter offers a basic introduction to the V-Synth, and provides
simple, easy-to-understand explanations, allowing the beginner to
quickly experience many of the V-Synth's exciting features. As you
read the Quick Start, we recommend actually performing the
described operations on your V-Synth. This'll help you understand
most of what you need to know for basic operations.
Reference (p. 53)
Overview of the V-Synth
This explains the structure of the V-Synth, and basic operation.
Reading it is essential for understanding V-Synth operational
procedures.
Playing in Patch Mode
This explains how to play the V-Synth in Patch mode. Reading it is
essential for understanding V-Synth operational procedures.
Creating a Patch
This chapter explains how to create patches, and describes what the
patch parameters do and how they are composed. Read this chapter
when you wish to create patches.
Creating a Rhythm Kit (Rhythm Mode)
This chapter explains how to create a Rhythm Kit.
Creating and Editing Samples
(Sample Mode)
This explains how to sample, and how to edit and encode samples.
Read this when you want to sample sounds.
Settings Common to All Modes
(System Mode)
This chapter describes how the System parameters that determine
the V-Synth's operation environment work and how these
parameters are organized. Read it as necessary.
Disk-Related Functions (Disk Mode)
This chapter covers disk-related operations such as saving data to
disk and loading data from disk. Read it as necessary.
Transferring Data (USB Mode)
This explains how to connect the V-Synth to your computer, and
transfer data such as patches and waves. Read this as necessary.
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Other Functions
This explains how to transmit data to an external MIDI device (Data
Transfer), and how to restore all data of the V-Synth to the factory
settings (Factory Reset). Read it as necessary.
Appendices (p. 151)
This chapter contains a troubleshooting section for use when the V-
Synth is not functioning as expected. There is also a list of messages
that you can refer to if an message appears on the display. A list of
parameters and a MIDI implementation chart are also provided.
Notation Used in This Owner's
Manual
To make operation procedures easy to understand, the following
notation system is adopted:
Characters and graphics in square brackets [ ] indicate buttons and
knobs on the front panel. For example, [MODE] indicates the MODE
button, and [ ], [ ], [ ], and [
buttons.
Text or graphics enclosed in < > indicate objects in the screen (touch
screen) that can be touched using your finger. The manual will
instruct you to "touch" the object shown in the touch screen.
(p. **) refers to pages within the manual.
Below are the meanings of the symbols preceding certain sentences
in the text.
These are notes. Be sure to read them.
These are reference memos. Read it as necessary.
These are hints for operating the V-Synth. Read it as necessary.
These provide information from related reference pages. Read it
as necessary.
The display screens printed in this owner's manual are based on
the factory settings. However, please be aware that in some cases
they may differ from the actual factory settings.
Please be aware that in the screen shots printed in this manual,
the patch names may differ from the factory settings.
] indicates the cursor
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