Originally posted by Ric4001:
Thanks for the reply. I don't understand why Roland sticks 190MB of samples in this machine, but provides no way to access them. That means that, unless a ROM program uses the multisample, we can't get to them (without Richard's Session Manager). There aren't many electric guitar ROM programs, but there are a lot of electric guitar multisamples (more, I'm guessing, than are used by the ROM programs). I would really like to be able to get to those unused multisamples to expand the number of electric guitar tones available. I guess I'll have to try Session Manager.
Have you found the 'Extended' sound selection button? RT*M... (p. 31)
There isn't a single multisample setup that the ROM patches don't use. I have no idea where you are getting your information from, Roland don't publish anything that details the actual multi-samples, just a list of the ROM Tones in the Parameter Reference pamphlet..
And, as anyone that has worked with a Roland arranger for the last, well, at least 15 years knows, you have NEVER had detailed access to the voice editing down to the sample level. Unfortunately (at least for us tweakheadz), probably never will. Roland seem to think that the majority of their users would prefer to just call up a well-tweaked sound and PLAY. From the deafening silence about the lack of detailed editing, they may very well be right...!
However, despite the lack of fine detail editing (and you CAN do quite a lot with the Attack, Decay, Release, LFO and filter controls they do provide), that still doesn't prevent it from being one of the best 'live' sounding arrangers out there. One can always find SOMETHING 'missing' off of just about ANY arranger, but the bottom line is, does it REALLY need it? So far, IMO, I've managed very well with what they provide...
If I want to stare for days at a display tweaking my brains out, I've always got my K2500!
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