Roland VC-1 D-50 owner manual Selecting Patches and Playing Sounds

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Selecting Patches and Playing Sounds

The VC-1 comes with a wide range of onboard sounds, including single tones called patches. A Patch is represented by a Patch Bank (Pre1–6, Int1–8), a Bank (1–8) and a Number (1–8).

Patch bank (Pre1–6) Patch bank (Int1–8)

Pre1
	Number
	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
	1
	2
Bank	3
	4
	5
	6
	7
	8
	Patch No.: P1-34

Int1
	Number
	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
	1
	2
Bank	3
	4
	5
	6
	7
	8
	Patch No.: I1-72

Patch Banks	Included patches	Overwrite	Remarks
Pre1	D-50	No	Original D-50 preset patches
Pre2	VC-1	No	Newly added patches
Pre3	PN-D50-01	No	D-50/D-550 sound library
Pre4	PN-D50-02	No	D-50/D-550 sound library
Pre5	PN-D50-03	No	D-50/D-550 sound library
Pre6	PN-D50-04	No	D-50/D-550 sound library
Int1	same as Pre1	Yes	-
Int2	same as Pre2	Yes	-
Int3	same as Pre3	Yes	-
Int4	same as Pre4	Yes	-
Int5	same as Pre5	Yes	-
Int6	same as Pre6	Yes	-
Int7	(blank)	Yes	-
Int8	(blank)	Yes	-

There are three ways of patch selection.

•Selecting Patches with the VALUE dial.

•Selecting Patches from the list.

•Selecting Patches with Patch Palette.

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