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Roland V-Guitar System VG-8 Owner's Manual (119 pages)

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Brand: Roland | Category: Music Pedal | Size: 6 MB

Important Safety Instructions
2
Grounding
2
Making the Driver Settings
3
About Connected Instruments
3
Adjusting the Contrast of the Display
3
Before You Begin
5
Important Notes
5
Contents
8
Top Panel
10
Rear Panel
12
Introduction
13
Installing the GK-2A on Your Guitar
14
Connecting the Equipment
14
Before Making the Connections
14
Connecting to the MIX out Jacks
15
Connecting to the GUITAR out Jack
15
When Connected Only to the MIX out Jacks
15
Switching on the Power and Tuning the Guitar
16
Tuning the Guitar
16
Guitar Tuning
16
If You Want to Tune the Guitar to Another Instrument
16
Adjusting the Pickup Sensitivity for each String
18
Changing Tones
19
Playing the Guitar Sound
19
Changing the Volume of the VG Sound
19
How Patch Numbers Are Organized
19
Switching Patches with the Value Dial
20
Switching Patches with the Foot Pedals
20
Changing to a Patch of the same Group and Bank
20
Changing to a Patch of the same Group and a Different Bank
20
Changing to a Patch of a Different Group and Bank
21
The Basics
23
The Structure of the VG-8
23
What Is the VG-8?
24
About Guitar Sound Quality
24
How the VG-8 Produces Sounds
24
Variable Guitar Modeling
25
Harmonic Restructure Modeling
25
Examples of Typical Amp and Effects Processor Connections
26
Rearranging the Sequence of Patches
27
Connecting External Pedals
27
EXP Pedal Jack
27
EXT Switch Jack
27
Sound Creation
29
Creating Sounds and Editing Patches
29
Three Operation Modes
30
Play Mode
30
Patch Edit Mode
30
System Edit Mode
30
The Basic Steps of Editing
32
Editing Instruments
32
Editing an Instrument
32
Saving the Contents of Editing
33
Switching Effects on and off
34
Switching Effects on and off at the Effect Menu
34
Switching Effects on and off in the Play Mode
34
Editing Effects
35
Editing Modulation
35
Editing Delay
35
Editing the Equalizer
36
Editing Reverb
36
Setting the Volume for Patches
37
Naming Patches
37
Changing between Upper and Lower Case
38
Inserting a Space
38
Deleting a Character
38
Entering a Space
38
Advanced Patch Creation
39
Comparison with the Sound before Editing
40
Copying the Settings for Another Patch
40
Parameters Covered by the Copy Function
40
Setting Effects in Time with Song Tempo
41
About the Sort Function
41
How to Copy
41
Saving Patches on a Memory Card
42
Memory Card
42
Initializing a Memory Card
42
Patches
42
Saving One Patch on a Memory Card
43
Using an Unused Memory Card with the VG-8
43
Changing How Patches Are Switched
45
Wait Number
45
Same Number
45
Using the Pedals for Editing
46
Changing the Bank Switch Mode
46
Connecting Foot Pedals
46
Connecting an Expression Pedal
46
Getting Ready for Editing with the Pedals
47
Returning to the same State as When Purchased
48
Performing Initialization
48
Returning to the Play Mode
48
Expansion
51
About MIDI
52
What Is MIDI?
52
About MIDI Channels
52
Controlling External Effects Processors with MIDI
53
Bank Select and Program Change
53
Renumbering Program Change Messages
54
Switching Patches with an External Device
55
Bulk Transmission of Setting Data
55
Sending Settings to an External Device
56
Receiving Settings from an External Device
56
Parameter Guide
59
Understanding How Parameters Work
59
Instrument
60
Parameters that Can be Changed with VGM
60
AMP Mono
60
Amp Poly
60
Pickup
61
Pedal & AMP
61
Pedal ST
61
P-Shift
63
Pedal
64
American Tweed
67
Classic Stack
67
Studio Lead
68
Studio Rhythm
69
Manager
71
Basic Editing with HRM
72
Sp & MIC
72
Panpot
72
Noise
72
The Parameters for the Different HRM Algorithms
73
Filters
73
Articulated
73
Bowed
74
Synthetic
74
Dual
74
Filter-Bass
75
Solo
76
Resonator
76
Pwm
76
Crystal
77
Drawbar
77
Common Parameters for HRM
78
Cavity
78
Complex
78
Mod
79
DIM-Cho
80
Twin-Cho
80
St-Cho
80
A Phaser
81
M Phaser
81
Tremolo
81
Hex-Pan
81
Stereo
82
Panning
82
Cross-FB
82
Eq/Vol
83
Reverb
83
3 Band EQ & Master Vol
83
Patch Name
84
Expression Pedal
84
Gk-Vol
85
MIDI
85
System
86
Driver Setting
86
Foot Switch Function
86
Speaker Simulation Switch
88
Display Contrast
88
Card Transfer
88
Patch Exchange
89
Unit Select
89
Tuner
89
Part Names and Functions
92
Adjusting the Brightness of the LCD Panel
92
Changing from Milimeter to Inch Display
93
If You Think There Might be a Problem
93
If the Screen Is Hard to Read
93
Trouble with the Sound
93
Parameter Lists
96
Specification
105
Index
107

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