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Panel descriptions – Roland VK-8 User Manual

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Panel Descriptions

1.

[MASTER VOLUME] knob

Adjust the overall volume (p. 19).

VIBRATO AND CHORUS

2.

VIBRATO AND CHORUS [ON] button

Switches the vibrato or chorus effect on/off (p. 31).

3.

[VIBRATO AND CHORUS] knob

Switches the type of vibrato or chorus effect (p. 31).

D BEAM

4.

D BEAM controller

You can modify the sound by moving your hand over
the D Beam controller (p. 34).

5.

D BEAM [ON] button

Switches the D Beam controller on/off (p. 34).

6.

D BEAM button

Selects the effect that will be controlled by the D Beam
controller (p. 34).

TONE WHEEL

7.

[LEAKAGE] knob

Allows you to independently add leakage noise,
separately from the leakage noise selected by the wheel
type (p. 27).

8.

[TONE WHEEL] button

Select the type of the virtual tonewheel (p. 27).

AMPLIFIER

9.

[OVERDRIVE] knob

Adjust the depth of overdrive (p. 33).

10.

[AMPLIFIER] button

Switches the frequency response and cabinet resonance
of the virtual amp (p. 33).

11.

[TONE] knob

Adjust the tonal character of the organ voice (p. 33).

REVERB

12.

REVERB [LEVEL] knob

Adjust the depth of reverb (p. 37).

13.

[REVERB] button

Select the type of reverb (p. 37).

OTHER TONES

14.

[SPLIT] button

Divide the keyboard into two halves, and assign a
different sound to each area (p. 38, 44).

15.

[H-BAR MANUAL] button (Harmonic Bar
Manual)

When this function is used, the harmonic bar settings
will change from the settings of the preset to the
positions (settings) of the harmonic bars on the panel (p.
23).

16. [WRITE] button

Saves the panel settings as a preset (p. 45, 46).

17. [BANK] button

Selects the preset bank (p. 22, 45, 46).

18. [PRESET] button

Pressed to enter Preset Select mode (p. 22, p. 45).
Allows the [1]–[8] buttons to be used for selecting
presets.

25

1

27

7

31

30

29

26

28

6

5

2

4

3

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