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About the VR-09 Workshop Booklets Roland’s V-Combo VR-09 is designed for today’s performing musician, with everything he or she needs in a single, affordable instrument that weighs just a little more than 12 easy-to-carry pounds. All of the must-have sounds are here, from Roland’s acclaimed piano, electric piano, and Virtual Tone Wheel organ to synths, horns, strings, drums, and anything you’d want to pull off a gig in style.
Connecting Via WiFi You have a choice of how you want your VR-09 and iPad to wirelessly communicate. • • If you’re going to be using the VR-09 and iPad at home—you can use your home’s WiFi network, or LAN (“Local Area Network”). Your iPad’s probably already using it, so when your VR-09 joins the network they’ll be able to communicate with each other. You can use a LAN connection anywhere LAN there’s a WiFi network to which you can connect.
If you’re using an Airport Extreme, double-click your base station, and then select Add WiFi Printer... from the Base Station menu. 5 Connecting the VR-09 and iPad Directly Via WiFi When you’re connecting an iPad directly to the VR-09, the iPad’s normal WiFi network connection is replaced by its connection to the VR-09. Therefore, its internet access via WiFi will be inactive until you restore its connection to a WiFi network. Press the VR-09’s ENTER button—the VR-09 and the router exchange handshakes.
8 On your iPad, open the Settings app. 9 Touch Wi-Fi along the left-hand edge. Settings If You Have Trouble Connecting in Ad-Hoc Mode If you have problems making or maintaining a connection between the VR-09 and iPad, try changing the VR-09 Ad-Hoc mode channel: 10 1 On the VR-09, press MENU, select Wireless, and then press ENTER. 2 Use the CURSOR buttons to display the Options screen, and then press ENTER.
Connecting Via USB Using the VR-09 Editor iPad App To connect your iPad to the VR-09, you’ll need to purchased and attach a USB adapter to your iPad. If you’ve got an • iPad 3 or earlier—you’ll need an Apple iPad Camera Connection Kit. • iPad 4 or later, or iPad mini—you’ll need an Apple Lightning to USB Camera Adapter. Configuration When you first launch the VR-09 Editor app on your iPad, you’ve got to pair it with your VR-09. Here’s how.
Programming on the iPad Whether you’re programming ORGAN or SYNTH sounds, you can hear the changes you make on the Pad by playing the VR-09 keyboard as you make them. Here’s how to operate the iPad’s ORGAN and SYNTH controls in general: • Adjust bar, slider and knob values—by dragging up or down over the slider or knob. • Toggle switches and buttons on and off—by touching the switches or buttons. To program an ORGAN sound, touch the ORGAN button at the top left of the iPad screen.
About Everything Else The Two SYNTH Screens Obviously, these controls affect any single, unlayered ORGAN sound you’re programming. What may be less obvious is that when you’re working with a spit, a layer, or a split/layer, they affect all of the ORGAN sounds together, including any pedal drawbars you’re using. The VR-09’s SYNTH sounds have more settings than can fit on a single Pad screen. Working with SYNTH Sounds on the iPad To get to the second screen, touch the LFO tab.
Understanding SYNTH Programming SYNTH Sound Control Area Sound name Sound categpry Value display The VR-09 Editor app reveals the complete structure of a VR-09 SYNTH sound. If you’re familiar with synthesizer programming, it’ll all look familiar, as the sounds are built using a traditional subtractive synthesis architecture. The SYNTH Sound Control area applies to the entire SYNTH sound.
Setting This parameter: Can be set to: WAVE SHAPE adds bottom to the sound by adding a second pitch, one octave down, to Partial 1 when it’s using one of the first five WAVE options, as described in the OSC Controls table below. 0-127 determines the overall volume of the SYNTH sound. 0-127 TONE LEVEL OSC Controls—These controls set the basic sound, pitch, and shape of the partial.
OSC Controls—These controls set the basic sound, pitch, and shape of the partial. OSC Controls—These controls set the basic sound, pitch, and shape of the partial. Setting This parameter: Can be set to: Setting This parameter: Can be set to: PWM adjusts the amount of change, or “modulation,” applied by the LFO to the width of the pulse wave when WAVE is set to pulse/PWM. 0 to 127 ENV DEPTH -63 to + 63 PW manually sets the width of the pulse wave when WAVE is set to pulse/ PWM.
FILTER Controls—Each partial’s sound is a stack of sound waves vibrating over and over at different speeds, or “frequencies,” and therefore different pitches. Combined, they act as the partial’s overtones, producing its tonal character. By removing frequency ranges from a partial, you change its tone. Each frequency range is called a “frequency” for short.
FILTER Controls—Each partial’s sound is a stack of sound waves vibrating over and over at different speeds, or “frequencies,” and therefore different pitches. Combined, they act as the partial’s overtones, producing its tonal character. By removing frequency ranges from a partial, you change its tone. Each frequency range is called a “frequency” for short. Setting This setting: Can be set to: R sets how long it takes for the Cutoff value to return to its manual setting when you let go of the key.
To finish programming the partial, touch the LFO tab to change to the LFO screen. “LFO” stands for “Low Frequency Oscillator.” An LFO produces sound like a partial does, only it’s so low-pitched you can’t hear it directly. Instead, the LFO is applied to other settings, causing them to rise and fall over and over at the LFO’s frequency. Each partial has two LFOs, and their use is optional. LFOs aren’t devices the partial passes through—rather, they affect the behavior of the OSC, FILTER, and AMP devices.
MODULATION LFO Controls—These settings control vibrato added to the partial when you push the VR-09’s Pitch Bend/Modulation lever forward. Setting This setting: Can be set to: FILTER DEPTH sets the amount of the lever LFO applied to the partial’s filter Cutoff. -63 to +63 AMP DEPTH sets the amount of the lever LFO applied to the partial’s volume. -63 to +63 LFO Controls—These settings determine the behavior of an LFO you can apply to the partial’s pitch, filter, and/or volume.
