Roland Musical Instrument specs

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When you ask for one to four instances of a 96-step waveform, you can choose between sawtooth, sine, pulse, triangle, and two types of parabolic curves. Before you hear any results from the selected controller, you will need to enable it via the activation menu to the right of the display, which defaults to off. When controller output is disabled, data in the display appears grayed out. The activation menu lets you stop effecting the target device's sound for whatever reason without losing entered settings, and it also lets you invert all control values, changing the background color as a reminder.

The direction options menu lets you disable any play direction changes that come from the Note Editor, so that the controller or bend pattern always loops in one direction. Note that by using the activation menu's invert play option you can effectively flip the display of some control waveforms horizontally so that they read from right to left. Should you then choose to narrow vertically the resulting waveform by adjusting the compression percentage, you will need to re-enter the waveform to see and hear the result.

When you press any of the three follow buttons for notes, velocities, or octaves In the Control A or B windows, steps are synced to note resolution, and a pattern similar to the note editor's values, but vertically stretched, appears in the display. This function processes values to be proportionate within the controller range of 0 though 127, letting you tie a controller imaginatively to scale steps.

You can rotate values up or down in the Control and Bend displays by means of right side vertical arrow buttons, and all values 0-127 wrap around the range. Instead of including a second set of arrow buttons to move values horizontally, the Control and Bend windows have a start step setting to time-shift values relative to the Note Editor's pattern set. The Bend window, with default values of 64, has similar pattern entry functions, but lacks the "follow" function buttons that allow expanded echoing of Note Editor patterns. You can set GS bend range by means a system exclusive message. The bend