Owner`s manual

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This piano sound’s
been shifted up by one
octave.
You can quickly tell if there’s any octave shifting going on by
glancing at the OCTAVE DOWN and UP buttons—when the
keyboard’s pitch has been moved up or down by octaves, the
corresponding OCTAVE button is lit.
Transposing the Keyboard by Semitone Steps
1 Hold down the TRANSPOSE button
and then use the - or + button to
lower or raise the pitch in semitone
steps as desired. The VR-09 displays
the selected amount of semitone
transposition until you let go of the
TRANSPOSE button.
The TRANSPOSE button remains lit whenever the keyboard is
transposed by semitones.
Exploring Organ Mode
Roland has long been at the forefront of organ emulations with its
acclaimed Virtual Tone Wheel technology. In the VR-09, Roland’s
introducing our next-gen SuperNATURAL Virtual Tone Wheel technology.
Though you could simply enter Organ mode by pressing the ORGAN
MODE button beneath the display, let’s listen to some of the factory-
programmed ORGAN sounds stored in the VR-09 as “registrations.”
There are 100 registration memory locations in the VR-09, arranged in
25 groups, “banks,” of four.
Let’s start by checking out the third registration in the first bank,
Registration 3-1, Blues B3.
1 Select the bank we want by pressing the REGISTRATION BANK
button to light it.
The display shows the currently selected registration bank
number.
REGISTRATION Buttons 2-4 flash.
2 Press the flashing REGISTRATION 3 button to select Bank 3.
The four REGISTRATION buttons flash to show the VR-09 is
waiting for you to select a registration in Bank 3.
3 Press REGISTRATION 1—our registration’s now selected and
its info appears in the display. We’ve also entered Organ mode.
4 Take a few moments to try out this beefy rock organ.
An important aspect of a traditional organ’s sound is its rotary
speaker cabinet, which has spinning speaker horns inside that
add a swirling sense of animation to the original organ sound.
The VR-09’s got a killer rotary speaker emulator.
Its performance controls are to the left of the
keyboard.
5 Make sure the ROTARY SOUND ON/OFF button
is lit, and try toggling the rotary speed with the
FAST/SLOW button.