From philip@philipclark.com Wed Oct 08 17:06:57 2014
Subject:Re: VR-09 Release 1.03

Roland has responded to my inquiries about the EP pitch envelope release bug. FYI:

Hello Philip,
The engineers in Japan have confirmed this, and have told us that they used a pitch envelope for some of the attack sound on these electric piano tones, so it is normal when you raise the release amount that you would hear envelope return the tones to their normal (higher) pitch. They said that these EP tones will work normally (no pitch bend) when using a hold pedal, so that was their recommendation for now. They will see if this can be changed, but they were not sure if it would be possible, since the pitch envelope apparently adds quite a bit of the attack on these sounds.
If they do change this, it will be in another update, so we will let you know if we see another one coming out from them. Thanks for reporting this to us.
Best Regards,
Product Support
Roland Corp. U.S.