Roland V-combo VR-09 Workshop Manual

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As with the rest of its organ features, the VR-09’s rotary speaker
is highly customizable. You’ll find the details starting on page 43
of the V-Combo VR-09 Owner’s Manual.
When you’re done with Blues B3, let’s listen to another one,
Registration 1-3, Bay Area B3.
6 Press BANK button again. This time, all of the registration
buttons flash except for REGISTRATION 3—that’s because
Bank 3 is the currently selected bank.
7 Press REGISTRATION 1 to select the first registration bank.
You can instantly get to registrations in the first four banks with the
REGISTRATION buttons, so these banks are great for the sounds
you need on a gig. Reach the remaining registration banks by
turning the VALUE dial after you press the REGISTRATION BANK
button.
8 Press REGISTRATION 3 to select the third registration in this
bank. You’ve now selected Bay Area B3—try it out.
9 Try changing the positions of the first nine sliders in the ORGAN
section to see how their positions affect the organ sound.
You’re now playing with the flexible power of Roland’s
SuperNATURAL Virtual Tone Wheel technology. It’s worth taking
a moment to explain how it works.
Roland’s SuperNATURAL Tone Wheel Technology
About Tone Wheel Organs
Every pitched sound in nature is made up of multiple pitches playing
together. In musical notes, that’s typically the note you hear, or the
“fundamental,” accompanied by other, much-lower-volume pitches
that you don’t notice as separate notes—rather, they merely change
the fundamental’s tone. These quieter notes are members of the
fundamental note’s harmonic series. Some are harmonics of the
fundamental; some are octaves. Together, they constitute the note’s
“overtones.”
In a traditional tonewheel organ, nine harmonic bars, or “drawbars,”
control the overtones of each note.
Each drawbar sets the volume of a specific harmonic or octave pitch.
Pulling a drawbar all the way out sets its pitch to the maximum volume;
pushing it all the way in turns it off. The art in using drawbars is in
learning how to quickly position them to get the sounds you want
on-the-fly, shaping your organ sounds as you play, for maximum
expression and to make them something uniquely your own.
The VR-09’s ORGAN sliders behave just drawbars on a traditional
organ. As you move them, the sound responds to your changes just as
a traditional organ’s drawbars do.

Roland V-combo VR-09 Specifications

General

Equalizer	Yes
Product type	Digital synthesizer
Product color	Black
Sound effects	Compression, Delay, Overdrive, Reverberation
Sound effects quantity	223
Keyboard number of keys	61
Maximum polyphony (notes)	128
Reverberation effects quantity	6
Headphone outputs	1
6.35 mm (1⁄4-inch) output	2
Battery type	AA
Operating time	5 h
Power source type	AC, Battery
Number of batteries supported	8

Weight and Dimensions

Depth	300 mm
Width	1008 mm
Height	106 mm
Weight	5500 g