Modify different instruments (a.k.a Tones) on each of the four Parts to your heart’s delight & add an Insertion Effect plus lots of reverb to emulate a JV sound! This way, you will trigger all four parts with a single midi Note On via channel A01.
On the SC-88 Pro or SC-8850, you will need to set a few Part Channels to a common midi channel, for example set Parts A01, A02, A03 & A04 to receive on the same midi channel A01.
It is when you start to combine many Tones immersed in reverb+other effects that the end result will sound absolutely stunning!Īctually it was a deliberate decision by Roland to maintain a tone level part for the SC for two reasons:ġ) To keep the cost of the SC unit affordable which was mainly for amateurs & desktop musiciansĢ) The SC unit was meant to be used as a multi-timbral device – with proper sequencing & arrangement, the playback using multiple parts actually sounded quite good! How to create a JV Patch on higher end SC modules On your JV synth, try this:Ģ) Turn off all its effects (MFX, Chorus & Reverb)ģ) Turn off all but leave only one (of the four) Tones ONĭoes it sound more like a Sound Canvas now? Exactly! Therefore we can conclude that the basic sound block of Tones (or internal PCM samples) on the SC & JV are quite similar, sonically speaking. The main reason for this was because each Sound Canvas instrument consists of only the basic sound block of Tones for each Part (or midi channel) whereas the JV implements Patch selection per Part. Single (basic) vs layered (multiple) sound comparison A main complaint you hear quite often on the Sound Canvas concerns with its thin sounding instruments in comparison to the JV/XP series. On the JV front, a Patch can consist of up to 4 Tones + MFX (which is the same thing as Insertion Effect), creating all those incredible but familiar Roland JV sounds. Patch Name Instruments Effect TypeĠ56 DUAL CHOIR St.ChoirAahs + ChoirAahs 2 21:Stereo DelayĠ61 ANALOG BRS JUNO Brass + P5 Brass 03:EnhancerĠ90 ASIAN DREAM Gu Zheng + Fantasia 24:4 Tap Delay Here are some of the presets patch as listed on the SC-88 Pro manual: No. Even though these patch feature was no longer available on subsequent models (8820, 8850, SC VA), I will show you that it is still accessible in a limited manner via a modified hack. Essentially a Patch is a combination of one or two Tones together with an Insertion Effect. What made the 88 Pro different from the rest of the Sound Canvas series was the availability of 128 Preset Patch + 16 User (programmable) Patch. Their hardware technology inside were from the similar mid-90’s era, making it possible for the 88 Pro to emulate the JV using the front panel editing. The Super JV-1080 rack module came out in 1994 while the first SC module with insertion effects, the SC-88 Pro, was released a year or two later. Is it possible for a Sound Canvas to produce the familiar JV type patches? Yes, after some experimentation, I was able to do it on the SC VA! In fact you can achieve this on any of the later SC hardware models which came with Insertion Effects.