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Chapter 4 Creating Patches

U.F (TMT Velocity Fade Width Upper)

Range: 0–127

This determines what will happen to the Tone’s level when the Tone is played at a velocity greater than its specified velocity range. Higher settings result in a more gradual change in volume. If you don’t want notes played outside the specified velocity range to be heard at all, set this to 0.

Creating Four-Tone Patches

Tips for Creating a Patch

•Select a Patch that is similar to the sound you wish to create.

When you want to create a new sound, it’s a good idea to begin with a Patch that is close to the sound that you have in mind. Starting with a Patch that bears no resemblance to the one you want to create is likely to result in much more programming work for you. (Selecting a Patch p. 19)

•Decide which Tones will sound

When creating a Patch, it is important to decide which Tones you are going to use. It is also important to turn off unused Tones to avoid wasting voices, unnecessarily reducing the number of simultaneous notes you can play. (Selecting the Tones That Will Sound p. 126)

•Check the way in which the Tones are combined

Structure Type 1&2 and 3&4 are important parameters that determine how the four Tones are combined. Before you select new Tones, make sure you understand how the currently selected Tones are affecting each other. (p. 131)

•Turn off effects

Since the XV-5080 effects have such a profound impact on its sounds. The effects have a very great influence on the sound, and simply turning off the effects may make the sound quite different. Since you will hear the original sound of the Patch itself when the effects are turned off, the results of your modifications will be easier to hear. Actually, sometimes just changing effects settings can give you the sound you want. (The settings in Patch mode (p. 24))

More Advanced Editing of Tones

You can use a tremendous amount of detail when you edit the Tones in a Patch.

The parameters which can be set for each Tone are assigned to [F2]–[F5] as follows.

[F2 (WG)]

[F1 (WG Prm)] Selecting waveforms, FXM, Tone delay (p. 136)

[F2 (Pitch)] Pitch (p. 138)

[F3 (Pch Env)] Pitch Envelope (p. 138)

[F4 (Sample)] Sample Edit (p. 139)

[F3 (TVF)]

[F1 (TVF Prm)] modifies the brightness using the filter (p. 140)

[F2 (TVF Env)] TVF envelope (p. 142)

[F4 (TVA)]

[F1 (TVA Prm)] Changes the volume and stereo location (p. 143)

[F2 (TVA Env)] TVA envelope (p. 144)

[F5 (LFO&CTL)]

[F1 (LFO1)] Applies vibrato or tremolo (p. 145)

[F2 (LFO2)] Applies vibrato or tremolo (p. 145)

[F3 (Control)] Matrix control) (p. 146)

[F4 (Ctrl Sw)] receives MIDI messages (p. 147)

*Do not change the Patch type (Patch Type, p. 127) while using Patch Edit. Since the composition of sounds and parameters used differ for each type, unless you go back and redo these settings, no sound will be produced.*

The following shows the basic setting procedure. For descriptions of each parameter, refer to the reference page given in the above.

1.Select the Patch you’re going to use.

2.Press [F2]–[F5], whichever has the parameter you wish to set assigned to it, and select the display group.

3.Then press [F1]–[F4] to access the desired page.

4.Use TONE SELECT [1]–[4] to select the Tone you wish to set.

Its indicator will blink, and the selected Tone’s number will appear in the upper right of the display.

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