Roland V-Synth owner manual TT Pad, Matrix Ctrl

Creating a Patch

Bend Range Down (Pitch Bend Range Down)

Specifies the degree of pitch change in semitones when the Pitch Bend lever is all the way left. For example if this is set to “-48” and you move the pitch bend lever all the way to the left, the pitch will fall 4 octaves.

Value: 0–48

TT Pad

Mode (Time Trip Pad Mode)

Specifies the operating mode of the Time Trip pad.

Value

: XY mode. The effect will be applied when you move your finger up/down/left/right on the Time Trip pad.

: Time Trip mode. The effect will be applied when you move your finger in a circle over the Time Trip pad.

Hold (Time Trip Pad Hold Switch) ◆

Specifies whether the current value will be maintained (ON) when you remove your finger from the Time Trip pad, or not maintained (OFF).

Value: OFF, ON

For details on settings for the Time Trip effect, refer to “Matrix Ctrl” (p. 38) and “TT Pad/Knob” (p. 80).

In the screen, “X-Y” and “Time Trip” indicate the effect that is assigned and the location of the pad that your finger touched.

Matrix Ctrl

Matrix Control

Ordinarily, if you wanted to change tone parameters using an external MIDI device, you would need to send System Exclusive messages—MIDI messages designed exclusively for the V-Synth. However, System Exclusive messages tend to be complicated, and the amount of data that needs to be transmitted can get quite large.

For that reason, a number of the more typical of the V-Synth’s patch parameters have been designed so they accept the use of Control Change (or other) MIDI messages for the purpose of making changes in their values. This provides you with a variety of means of changing the way patches are played. For example, you can use the Pitch Bend lever to change the LFO cycle rate, or use the keyboard’s touch to open and close a filter. The function which allows you use MIDI messages to make these changes in realtime to the tone parameters is called the Matrix Control.

To use the Matrix Control, specify which MIDI message (Source parameter) will be used to control which parameter (Destination parameter), and how greatly (Sns parameter).

Up to eight Matrix Controls can be used in a single patch. In the right side of the screen, touch the “Control 1/2”–”Control 7/8” tabs to select the matrix control that you want to use.

Source (Matrix Control Source)

Sets the MIDI message used to change the patch parameter with the Matrix Control.

Value

OFF: Matrix control will not be used.

CC01–31,33–95:Controller numbers 1–31, 33–95

For more information about Control Change messages, please refer to “MIDI Implementation” (p. 153).

BEND: Pitch Bend

AFT: Aftertouch

+PAD-X:Time Trip pad (horizontal direction from the center)

+PAD-Y:Time Trip pad (vertical direction from the center)

PAD-X:Time Trip pad (horizontal direction)

PAD-Y:Time Trip pad (vertical direction)

TRIP-R:Time Trip pad (center from the circumference)

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