Roland XV-88 owner manual Using Phrase Preview to Play Patches, Preview Mode Preview Sound Mode

Chapter 2. Playing

Using Phrase Preview to Play Patches

The XV-88 allows you to preview Patches by hearing a phrase appropriate for each type of Patch.

1.Select a Patch (p. 29).

2.Press and hold [PHRASE PREVIEW].

•In Performance mode, only the Patches of the currently selected Part (current Part) will sound. In Rhythm Set mode, a drum phrase will sound.

•Patches of the USER group or from an optional Wave Expansion Board (SR-JV80 Series and SRX Series) may not sound at the appropriate pitch range. If this occurs, press [+OCT] or [-OCT] to select the desired pitch range (Octave Shift p. 47).

•If the pitch range of a Phrase is wider than the range of the Tones within a Patch (p. 73), or wider than the range of a Part within a Performance (p. 51), any notes in the Phrase that fall outside that range will not be heard.

3.Release your finger from [PHRASE PREVIEW], and the phrase will stop playing.

4.To change the way in which the phrase is played, press [SYSTEM] to make the indicator light. Then press the

[PREVIEW] function button, and press or to access the SYSTEM PREVIEW page.

5.Rotate the VALUE dial, or press [INC/+]/[DEC/-] to make the setting.

Preview Mode (Preview Sound Mode)

SINGLE: The notes specified by Note 1–4 parameter (SYSTEM/PREVIEW/PREVIEW KEY) will sound successively one by one.

CHORD: The notes specified by Note 1–4 parameter (SYSTEM/PREVIEW/PREVIEW KEY) will sound simultaneously.

PHRASE: The Phrase associated with the Patch’s type/ category is played.

For details on the Note 1–4 parameter settings, refer to “Phrase Preview Settings (PREVIEW)” (p. 177).

6.Press [EXIT] to return to the PATCH PLAY page.

7.If you set the Preview Mode parameter to PHRASE in step 5, you can specify the phrase that will sound. After pressing [EDIT] to make the indicator light up, press the

[COMMON] function button, and press or to display the PATCH CATEGORY page.

8.Rotate the VALUE dial or press [INC/+]/[DEC/-] to make the setting. For details on the available categories, refer to (p. 31).

The Patch Finder function uses this setting.

Making a Patch Sound Thick or Thin (Turning a Tone On/Off)

Since a Patch is a combination of up to four Tones, you can switch unwanted (Tones out of the four) off and get just the sound of a specific Tone.

1.Make sure that the PATCH PLAY page is displayed.

2.Make sure that [EDIT] indicator is extinguished. If it is lit, press [EDIT].

At this time, the on/off setting of each Tone in the displayed Patch will be shown by the indicators of TONE SWITCH [1]–[4]. Lit is on, and dark is off.

The PATCH PLAY page indicates the Tones that are on as follows. Tones that are off are shown as -.

3.Use TONE SWITCH [1]–[4] to switch Tones on/off.

This setting is linked with the Switch parameter (PATCH/WAVE/WAVE). If you want just one or two Tones to sound in a Patch, turn the others off and store that setting on a Patch. This cuts nonessential use of the XV-88’s simultaneous voices.

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