Roland XV-88 owner manual Copying the Settings of Another Tone Tone Copy

Chapter 5. Creating Patches

Copying the Settings of Another Tone (Tone Copy)

Tone settings from any desired Patch can be copied to any desired Tone of the currently selected Patch. This function can help you save time.

1.Make sure that a Patch is selected.

2.Press [UTILITY], getting its indicator to start blinking.

3.Press the numeric key [2], then or to call up the PATCH TONE CPY page.

Copy source Patch	Copy source Patch name
(group, number)	Copy destination Tone

Copy source Tone

4.Press the cursor buttons to move the cursor to the parameter you wish to set.

5.Either rotate the VALUE dial or press [INC/+]/[DEC/-] to set the value.

•To specify the currently selected Patch as the copy source, set Source to TEMP.

•When the cursor is located at Source, you can also use [USER], [PRESET], and [A]–[F] to select a Patch group, and then use numeric keys to specify the Patch number.

•By using TONE SWITCH [1]–[4], you can also select the copy source Tone. By using TONE SELECT [1]–[4], you can select the copy destination Tone.

6.Press [ENTER] to execute the Copy operation.

When the Copy operation is executed, an * symbol will be displayed in front of the copy-destination Tone.

7.Press [UTILITY] to return to the previous page.

Cautions When Selecting a Waveform

The sounds of the XV-88 are based on complex PCM waveforms, and if you attempt to make settings that are contrary to the type of the original waveform, the results will not be as you expect.

The XV-88’s internal waveforms fall into the following two groups.

One-shot: These waveforms contain sounds that have short decays. A one-shot waveform records the initial rise and fall of the sound. Some of the XV-88’s one-shot waveforms are sounds that are complete in themselves, such as percussive instrument sounds. The XV-88 also contains many other one- shot waveforms that are elements of other sounds. These include attack components such as piano-hammer sounds and guitar fret noises.

Looped: These waveforms include sounds with long decays as well as sustained sounds. Loop waveforms repeatedly play back (loop) the portion of the waveform after the sound has reached a relatively steady state. The XV-88’s looped waveforms also include components of other sounds, such as piano-string resonant vibrations and the hollow sounds of brass instruments.

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

TVA ENV for looped Organ	TVA ENV for one-shot Key	Resulting TVA ENV
waveform (sustain portion)	-click waveform (attack portion)	change
Level

+	=
Time	Note off
Note off

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