From dave@voceinc.com Mon Jul 04 13:51:30 2005
Subject:Re: V5 pedal tones

Hi Steve,

The V5/V5+ defaults to program 7 when you power up. You can send a program
change or send MIDI control info to change that. Of course... you could set
program 7 to be the setting you'd prefer for the pedals.

/Dave

>
> Dave,
> I'm a little confused here. My V5+ (which I thoroughly enjoy gigging with)
> seems to use 888 000 000 as the default pedal tone. In the manual there's
> no mention of how to reprogram this tone. Is it always the 7th preset? I
> can see how to program the lower manual by programming it with the split
> function and then turning split off in multitimbral mode, but how does one
> program a bass pedal sound to a particular pre-set?
> Steve Czarnecki
>
> The V5 pedal tones do go all they way down and you can set them to be
> anything you'd like via a preset. The lower manual is completely
> independent of the pedal tones as well.
>
> /Dave
>
>>I do know that the Roland VK8 and VK8M - and starting with the older
>>two manual VK77 - did the pedals "right" with authentic pedal tones,
>>set up by the 16' and 8' two-drawbars combination in pedal mode - not
>>a repeat of the lower manual. As far as "articulated pedal bumps,"
>>although I know what you mean, I just hear pedal tones. The V5 "pedal
>>tones" are the same as the default lower manual tones - it doesn't go
>>down to a genuine pedal range as far as I could tell. Walter
>