Roland Piano owner manual Creating a Patch, Delay Time Tone Delay Time

Creating a Patch

Tone Delay

This produces a time delay between the moment a key is pressed (or released), and the moment the tone actually begins to sound. You can also make settings that shift the timing at which each tone is sounded. This differs from the Delay in the internal effects, in that by changing the sound qualities of the delayed tones and changing the pitch for each tone, you can also perform arpeggio-like passages just by pressing one key. You can also synchronize the tone delay time to the specified tempo (Patch Tempo), or to the tempo of the sequencer (p. 48).

•If you are not going to use Tone Delay, set the Delay Mode parameter to “NORM” and Delay Time parameter to “0.”

•If the Structure parameter (PATCH/TMT) is set in the range of “2”–”10,” the output of tones 1 and 2 will be combined into tone 2, and the output of tones 3 and 4 will be combined into tone 4. For this reason, tone 1 will follow the settings of tone 2, and tone 3 will follow the settings of tone 4 (p. 56).

Value

NORM: The tone begins to play after the time specified in the Delay Time parameter has elapsed.

Delay time

Note on Note off

HOLD: Although the tone begins to play after the time specified in the Delay Time parameter has elapsed, if the key is released before the time specified in the Delay Time parameter has elapsed, the tone is not played.

	No sound
Delay time	played
Note on	Note off

OFF-N:Rather than being played while the key is pressed, the tone begins to play once the period of time specified in the Delay Time parameter has elapsed after release of the key. This is effective in situations such as when simulating noises from guitars and other instruments.

Delay time

Note on Note off

OFF-D:Rather than being played while the key is pressed, the tone begins to play once the period of time specified in the Delay Time parameter has elapsed after release of the key. Here, however, changes in the TVA Envelope begin while the key is pressed, which in many cases means that only the sound from the release portion of the envelope is heard.

Delay time

Note on Note off

If you have selected a waveform that is a decay-type sound (i.e., a sound that fades away naturally even if the key is not released), selecting “OFF-N” or “OFF-D” may result in no sound being heard.

Delay Time (Tone Delay Time)

Specifies the time from when the key is pressed (or if the Delay Mode parameter is set to “OFF-N” or “OFF-D,” the time from when the key is released) until when the tone will sound.

Value: 0–127, Note

Tone Delay Time specifies the beat length for the synchronized tempo when the tempo that specifies the elapsed time until the tone is sounded (Patch Tempo) is synchronized with the tempo set in a sequencer.

(Example)

For a tempo of 120 (120 quarter notes occur in 1 minute (60 seconds))

Setting	Delay time
(half note)	1 second (60 / 60 =1 (second))
(quarter note)	0.5 seconds (60 / 120= 0.5 (seconds))
(eighth note)	0.25 seconds (60 / 240= 0.25 (seconds))

Rx Bender (Tone Receive Pitch Bend Switch)

For each tone, specify whether MIDI Pitch Bend messages will be

received (ON), or not (OFF).

Value: OFF, ON

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