Roland XV-88 owner manual Creating Performances, How a Performance Is Organized

Chapter 3. Creating Performances

With the XV-88, you have total control over a wide variety of settings. Each item that can be set is known as a parameter. When you change the values of parameters, you are doing what is referred to as Editing. This chapter explains the procedures used in creating Performances, and the functions of the Performance parameters.

How a Performance Is Organized

A Performance is a collective set of assignments of the sixteen different Patches and Rhythm Sets. Since a Performance can simultaneously handle 16 different sounds, it allows you to play multiple Patches simultaneously (layer) or to play different Patches in different areas of the keyboard (split), and to create ensembles.

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Performance

Part 16

Part 1

Patch/

Rhythm Set

How to Make the

Performance Settings

Start with an existing Performance and edit it to create a new Performance. But before you do, try to envision what the entire Performance will sound like and decide which Patch or Rhythm Set to assign to each of 16 Parts.

1.Press [PERFORM] to access the PERFORM PLAY page, and select the Performance whose settings you wish to modify (p. 35).

If you want to create all your Performances from the ground up, rather than the Performances that have already been prepared, carry out the Initialize operation (p. 185).

2.Press [EDIT] to make the indicator light.

3.Use the function buttons to select a display group.

The indicator for the button of the selected display group

begins blinking.

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4.Use or to select a display page.

5.If you have selected a parameter display that can be set independently for each Part, the number of the Part selected for editing will be shown in the upper left of the display. To edit a different Part, press [EDIT] to temporarily turn off the indicator, and use ZONE/PART SELECT [1/9]–[8/16] to select a Part. When the [1-8/9- 16] indicator is extinguished, Parts 1–8 are selected, and when the [1-8/9-16] indicator is lit, Parts 9–16 are

selected.

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6.Use or to move the cursor to the parameter you wish to modify.

7.Use the VALUE dial, [INC/+]/[DEC/-], or the numeric keys to modify the parameter value.

If you’ve made a mistake in setting a parameter value, or you have second thoughts about the changes, press [UNDO/COMPARE] to restore the value to what it was.

8.If you wish to move to another display group, press [EDIT] to make the indicator light, and use the function buttons.

You can also move to another display group by holding

down [SHIFT] and using or . Since this can be done even when the [EDIT] indicator is dark, it is a faster

way to get around because you don’t have to turn on the [EDIT] indicator each time.

9.Repeat steps 3–8 to complete a Performance.

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