vibrations and the hollow sounds of brass instruments.

The following diagram shows an example of a sound — an electric organ — that combines one-shot and looped waveforms.

TVA ENV for looped Organ

TVA ENV for one-shot Key-

waveform (sustain portion)

click waveform (attack portion) Resulting TVA ENV change

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Key-off

Key-off

Notes for Editing One-Shot Waveforms

You cannot give a one-shot waveform a longer decay — or make it into a sustaining sound — by using an envelope. If you were to program such an envelope, you would be attempting to shape a portion of the sound that simply doesn’t exist, and the envelope would have no effect.

Notes for Editing Looped Waveforms

With many acoustic instruments such as piano and sax, extreme timbral changes occur during the first few moments of each note. This initial attack is what defines much of the instrument’s character. The XV-5080 provides a variety of waveforms containing realistic acoustic instrument attacks. To obtain the maximum realism when using these waveforms, it is best to leave the filter wide-open during the attack so that all of these important timbral changes are heard. If you use an envelope to modify the attack portion, you may not achieve the result you want. Use enveloping to produce the desired changes in the decay portion of the sound.

Looped Portion

Tone change stored with the wave

Envelope for the TVF filter

Resulting tone change

If you try to make a waveform’s attack brighter by lowering the high-frequency content of its decay using the TVF filter, consider the original timbral character of the waveform. If you’re making a part of the sound brighter than the original waveform, you should first generate new upper harmonics not present in the original waveform using the Color and

Chapter 6 Creating Rhythm Sets

Depth parameters (the FXM parameter in the RHYTHM WG WgPrm page) before filtering. This will help you achieve the desired result. To make an entire waveform brighter, try applying effects such as an enhancer and equalizer before modifying the TVF parameter.

Modifying the Waveform, Pan and Pitch ([F2 (Key WG)])

RHYTHM WG Parameter page ([RHYTHM] - [F2 (WG)] - [F1 (WG Prm)])

Rhythm Tone

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Name (Tone Name)

You can name a Rhythm Tone using up to 12 characters.

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Press [ ] or [ ] to move the cursor, and then create the

 

 

name by turning the VALUE dial or pressing the [INC] or

 

[DEC] buttons to select the desired characters.

 

Available characters/symbols:

space, A-Z, a-z, 0-9, ! " # $ % & ' ( ) * + , - . / : ; < = > ? @ [ \ ] ^ _ ` { } → ←

*Pressing the VALUE dial displays the Patch Name window, in which you can use the following functions.

[F2 (← Prev)]: Move back one character.

[F3 (Next→ )]: Move forward one character.

[F4 (Insert)]: Insert a blank space at the cursor position.

[F5 (Delete)]: Delete the character at the cursor position.

[F6 (OK)]: Confirm the selected name.

With the XV-5080, up to four stereo Waves can be assigned to a single Rhythm Tone. You can select the way tones sound according to the force with which the keys are played, thus allowing you to create Rhythm Tones featuring great expressive power. This function is called WMT (Wave Mix Table).

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Roland XV-5080 owner manual Modifying the Waveform, Pan and Pitch F2 Key WG, 171, Name Tone Name