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Roland VB-99 Features Manual

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Introduction to the VB-99
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  • Page 1 The trademarks listed in this document are trademarks of their respective owners, which are separate companies from Roland. Those companies are not affiliated with Roland and have not licensed or authorized Roland’s VB-99. Their marks are used solely to identify the equipment whose sound is simulated by Roland’s VB-99.
  • Page 2 To add the icing on the cake, the VB-99 provides a staggering selection of effects to process your This booklet introduces you to the VB-99. We’ll give you an overview of what sound just the way you like it, including COSM models of classic stompbox it is and what it does, and discuss its concept and application.
  • Page 3 COSM Instrument Modeling Unlocking Instrument Modeling with a Divided Pickup The VB-99 creates its virtual instruments by processing each of the strings on With the VB-99’s COSM instrument modeling, you can turn your bass into a your bass individually. This is accomplished by using a special pickup called completely different instrument.
  • Page 4 Alternate Tunings, Pitch Shifting, and Polyphonic Effects The Roland GK-3B provides an easy way to add divided Once the VB-99 has the strings’ signals, it converts them to digital pickup capabilities to your favorite bass. It works with information so they can be processed individually with its digital brain.
  • Page 5 BASS INPUT—you can “amplify” it virtually using a COSM amplifier model. The VB-99 offers 12 COSM bass and guitar amps, from vintage With the VB-99, the string signals from your bass are always the fundamental legends to modern classics. Each amp model offers uncannily accurate...
  • Page 6 VB-99 Owner’s Manual. The Effects Chain The order of the VB-99’s effects can be changed at will. The COSM bass and normal pickup paths can be adjusted as well, allowing you to apply separate processing to them if desired. For example, this is particularly useful for applying traditional bass effects and COSM amp simulation to one set of The VB-99 provides multi-effects to the gills—everything you need to...
  • Page 7 The mixer also You can also assign five of your most-used patches to the front-panel DIRECT lets you route the A and B signal paths to any (or all) of the VB-99’s multiple PATCH buttons for quick access.

  • Page 8: Control Buttons

    VB-99. There’s even an onboard display that shows VB-99 patch info. And The D Beam is an invisible infrared light beam that emanates when the VB-99’s tuner is activated, the FC-300 display switches to a tuner from the VB-99’s D Beam controller. When you pass your hand screen.

  • Page 9: Audio Outputs

    With the VB-99 USB Driver installed on a compatible Windows or Mac signal is available at the BASS OUTPUT jack. computer, you can use the VB-99 as a USB audio and MIDI interface. This allows you to record and playback audio through the VB-99 with digital audio workstation (DAW) software, and transfer MIDI information with MIDI-capable software, such as a MIDI sequencer.
  • Page 10 COSM amps and effects during recording. When it’s time to mix, at once—but it’s good to know it’s there when you want to kick it up a notch you can play the dry audio back through the VB-99’s COSM amps and effects, with some out-of-this-world sounds! and then re-record the result on another track.