Roland VC-2 owner manual Main Features, Conventions Used in This Manual

Main Features

VC-2 “Vocal Designer” transforms the V-Synth XT into a cutting-edge vocal modeling processor. By playing a keyboard while you speak into the mic, you can create beautiful and clearly intelligible human choruses as well as many other vocal-type sounds with unprecedented quality.

•Human Vocal Modeling lets you produce extremely high-quality and musical sounds by connecting a mic and inputting your voice while you play the keyboard (or receive note messages).

•Lyrics you input via the mic will be clearly intelligible. You can create beautiful choirs and pop music backup choruses that reflect the dynamics and nuances of your voice and breathing. In addition to vintage-type vocoder sounds, you can create new vocoder sounds that allow the lyrics to be intelligible.

•High-quality preset patches are provided for each algorithm.

•You can use the Auto Note function to extract pitch data from the mic input so that the VC-2 will generate sound without you having to play the keyboard (or receive note messages).

•You can play choir/chorus sounds just from note data without having to provide mic input.

•Multi Chord Memory function lets you generate a full chorus with one finger simply by choosing a preset chord set.

•Use mic pre-effects such as equalizer, noise suppressor, and compressor, as well as three effects (reverb, chorus, multi-effect).

Conventions Used in This Manual

Operating buttons are enclosed by square brackets [ ]; e.g., [EXIT].

Reference pages are indicated by (p. **).

The following symbols are used.

This indicates an important note; be sure to read it.

This indicates a memo regarding the setting or function; read it as desired.

This indicates a useful hint for operation; read it as necessary.

This indicates information for your reference; read it as necessary.

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