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VR760 niggles

VR760 niggles

12 Mar 2005, 12:36
I have a Roland VR760 which by and large is great. However, I have a few problems with it which I can't fathom out. Maybe it's me!

1. When changing from one, say, organ preset to another, the volume levels are inconsistent. So, you're playing away on one organ, hit a preset and BANG! UP comes the volume, frightening everyone to death. Is there anyway of setting the volume across the whole instrument?
2. When I save a newly edited sound to the registry, it won't remember the new name that I give it. As soon as I switch back to the new sound from another preset, the name is gone.
3. When using the drum machine on the 760, the beat preset changes with the souind preset. So, when going from Suitcase Rhodes preset to Blues Organ, with the drum machine going, the beat changes from say heavy rock to acid jazz. It is bloody annoying.

Anyone else come across any of these niggles? Help!
John
Northants

Re: VR760 niggles

13 Mar 2005, 21:01
I think that the individual volume settings for organ, piano, and synth are stored as part of a registration. If you have the organ volume set at different levels for different registrations it will change as you change registrations on the fly.
I've ordered my VR760 but don't have it yet. I deduced the above from reading in the manual so I'm not 100% sure this is how it works.

Owen
Owen-X7-SRX-06-07-09-544MB

Re: VR760 niggles

13 Mar 2005, 21:51
Concern #1 is actually a charcteristic of Hammond tonewheel (B3, C3, M100, etc.) organs. Certainly "playing the drawbars" produces differences in volume ... some of them quite drastic. The "black key" presets also produce marked differences in volume.

So - in a way - this behavior is acurate modeling of the orginal instrument(s).

Re: VR760 niggles

17 Mar 2005, 08:37
JohnnyJ,
I haven't had time yet to check on the naming of the the presets but for question #3,

The rhythm type, and volume as well as a bunch of other parameters are all memorized when you store a registration (preset). The Suitcase Rhodes and Blues Organ presets must have been stored with different rhythms. Try recalling each of these presets and then change the rhythm to what you want and then store them again. Then switching back and forth should keep the same rhythm going. Let me know if you get it working like you want.

Owen
Owen-X7-SRX-06-07-09-544MB

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