Roland V-Synth owner manual Main Features, Ideal combination of sound generators

Main Features

With this synthesizer, every component involved in sound creation has been taken to the next stage of evolution

The V-Synth brings together the ideal combination of sound generators, together with an interface that dynamically links your sensitivities with the sound. It’s a powerful synthesizer that only Roland could have produced. The sounds of the V-Synth have a living character that goes beyond the limits of previous synthesizers.

■The ideal combination of sound generators

●Flexible sound generator structure

The sound generator section consists of OSC, MOD, COSM, and TVA blocks, and allows you to flexibly change the way in which these blocks are connected. Sections other than the TVA provide multiple types, and can be combined freely.

Since each section can be switched on/off in real time from the panel, it’s always easy to understand how the sound is structured.

●Versatile oscillators using VariPhrase technology

Since the oscillators have independent envelopes and LFOs, they themselves have the functionality of synthesizers. You can choose from three types: analog, PCM, and external input.

For example, since the PCM oscillators provide VariPhrase functionality, you can change the waveform playback speed in the forward or reverse directions.

Approximately 300 different preset waveforms are built-in. In addition, you can use waveforms that you sampled from the analog or digital input.

The powerful analog modeling sound generator creates a waveform by internal calculation, and is great for creating unique tonal changes, such as adding fatness or more of an edge to your sound.

●COSM processing for creating unique sounds

The COSM section uses a rich variety of processing in addition to the usual TVF to vary the sound in extreme ways. For example, you can use a sideband filter to give a metallic resonance to simple white noise. You can use a resonator to add the body resonances of a musical instrument. Processes such as wave shaper and guitar amp modeling are also provided.

Since these effects are independent for each voice, you can play chords while preserving the sense of pitch.

●Carefully selected effects

Three types of carefully selected effects are built-in: MFX (multi- effects), chorus, and reverb.

Also included is a newly developed Pseudo Stereo effect that adds a sense of stereo to monaural sample data, allowing you to create a variety of sound fields.

■An interface that gives life to the sound

●Intuitive user interface

The V-Synth provides a rich variety of controllers for hands-on operation, which puts you in direct and intuitive control of the sound: a touch-operated display, the Time Trip pad, twin D Beam controllers that detect not only up/down but also left/right movement, and highly sensitive knobs.

Most of the sound generator parameters can be assigned to these controllers for direct control.

●Powerful time-control functions

The VariPhrase sound generator of the V-Synth provides a Time Trip function that can bring the waveform playback to a stop in real time, and trace backward or forward from that point.

In addition, VariPhrase waveforms, LFO, envelope, arpeggiator, and effects can all be made to operate in synchronization at the same tempo. For example, a waveform with movement such as a rhythm loop can easily be synthesized in units of individual notes. Of course you can also synchronize to MIDI Clock messages from an external device.

The arpeggiator lets you program a pattern for each sound, and also supports control changes.

●New specially optimized preset sounds

The new built-in sounds created specifically for the V-Synth give you a wide range of expression simply when played from the keyboard, and are also optimized for performance from the Time Trip pad and D Beam controllers.

From the day you start playing the V-Synth, you can start taking advantage of the performance potential offered by its Time Trip pad and D Beam controllers.

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