Roland V-Synth owner manual How To Use This Manual

How To Use This Manual

This owner’s manual is organized as follows. Before you start reading it, we’d like to suggest going through the Quick Start manual. For details on all the patches and waves that the V-Synth contains, refer to the separate “Sound List.”

Overview of the V-Synth

This explains the structure of the V-Synth, and basic operation. Reading it is essential for understanding V-Synth operational procedures.

Playing in Patch Mode

This explains how to play the V-Synth in Patch mode. Reading it is essential for understanding V-Synth operational procedures.

Creating a Patch

This chapter explains how to create patches, and describes what the patch parameters do and how they are composed. Read this chapter when you wish to create patches.

Creating and Editing Samples (Sample Mode)

This explains how to sample, and how to edit and encode samples.

Read this when you want to sample sounds.

Settings Common to All Modes (System Mode)

This chapter describes how the System parameters that determine the V-Synth’s operation environment work and how these parameters are organized. Read it as necessary.

Disk-Related Functions (Disk Mode)

This chapter covers disk-related operations such as saving data to disk and loading data from disk. Read it as necessary.

Transferring Data (USB Mode)

This explains how to connect the V-Synth to your computer, and transfer data such as patches and waves. Read this as necessary.

Other Functions

This explains how to transmit data to an external MIDI device (Data Transfer), and how to restore all data of the V-Synth to the factory settings (Factory Reset). Read it as necessary.

Appendices

This chapter contains a troubleshooting section for use when the V- Synth is not functioning as expected. There is also a list of messages that you can refer to if an message appears on the display. A list of parameters and a MIDI implementation chart are also provided.

Notation Used in This Owner’s Manual

To make operation procedures easy to understand, the following notation system is adopted:

Characters and graphics in square brackets [ ] indicate buttons and knobs on the front panel. For example, [MODE] indicates the MODE button, and [ ], [ ], [ ], and [ ] indicates the cursor buttons.

Text or graphics enclosed in < > indicate objects in the screen (touch screen) that can be touched using your finger. The manual will instruct you to “touch” the object shown in the touch screen.

(p. **) refers to pages within the manual.

Below are the meanings of the symbols preceding certain sentences in the text.

These are notes. Be sure to read them.

These are reference memos. Read it as necessary.

These are hints for operating the V-Synth. Read it as necessary.

These provide information from related reference pages. Read it as necessary.

The display screens printed in this owner’s manual are based on the factory settings. However, please be aware that in some cases they may differ from the actual factory settings.

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