VR One Touch
(I) Understanding the “One-Touch” (or “MODE”) buttons
In this article we explain how the three MODE buttons below VR display can be used with a parformance to quickly switch between sounds.
The MODE buttons not only recall ‘fixed factory defaults’ but can be used in a much more versatile style: pressing a MODE button resets some VR settings to ‘default values’ while other settings conserve their ‘actual values’.
De facto VR MODE buttons are ‘a little bit’ comparable to Nord Electro “Live mode”
The table shows, which VR ‘settings’ (parameters) are reset to ‘factory defaults’ and which conserve the actual values:
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| ORGAN |
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| PIANO |
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| SYNTH |
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What does this mean? Examples:
if you change drawbars of your ‘ROCK’ organ, then switch to MODE PIANO or SYNTH, then back to MODE ORGAN, the latest drawbar setting is retained
if you select e.g. a piano ‘Honky Tonk’, then switch to MODE ORGAN, then back to MODE PIANO, the piano patch will be again ‘Honky Tonk’ (idem with a SYNTH sound)
if you have a ‘tuned sound’ (e.g. a synth lead with modified EFX, octave shift, envelope/filter, etc) you CANNOT use a mode button as it would reset these parameters back to ‘VR factory defaults’ of this patch (in this case see chapter III)
It will be shown next, how this can be used with ‘VR registations’ to ‘toggle’ sounds during a song, e.g. switch between Organ and a Piano/EP or between complex layers and a ‘solo synth’ only by using the MODE (and VR registration) buttons
(II) Using the MODE buttons with VR registrations
As explained, the MODE buttons retain some of the actual VR setting – those you actively change on VR interface – but also those that had been ‘predefined’ in a VR registration.
Example 1 (simple): within a song, quickly switch between (Rock) organ, piano/EP and a synth patch:
Prepare a ‘VR registration’:
- witch to PIANO and select a piano/EP/Clav/Others patch (don’t do any ‘adjustments’)
- switch to SYNTH and select a SYNTH patch (don’t do any ‘adjustments’)
- switch to ORGAN:
– chose ROCK and Rotary 3, leave OD and ‘Level’ at default (OD 20, Level 10)
– set your ‘base drawbar setting’
– tune the overdrive by adjusting Organ Low/High Gain (VR menu Organ) and ‘OD/dry’ (VR menu EFX) - tune Reverb with Reverb Knob and ‘Wall type’ (VR menu EFX) (don’t change Reverb type ‘Stage’)
- Finally save to a VR Registration: now this registration is ‘preloaded’ with the piano and synth patch and ‘organ tuning’
Now when you recall the registration for a song, you can use the MODE buttons to toggle between:
&rArr: MODE ORGAN: Rock-Organ
&rArr: MODE PIANO: the ‘preselected’ piano patch
&rArr: MODE SYNTH: the ‘preselected’ synth patch
MODE ORGAN button will retain your latest drawbar settings – example:
during playing you changed to ‘all stops out’, then switch to MODE PIANO, then switch back to MODE ORGAN, then it’s again the previous ‘all stops out’
To return to the ‘base drawbar setting’ of the registration, press the registration button
Example 2: include the ‘registration button’ for ‘toggeling sounds’ for more ‘sound complexity’:
- switch to MODE PIANO and select a PIANO patch (don’t do any ‘adjustments’)
- now you want a synth-layer (or split), e.g. strings+brass : create a layer (or split) with 2 synth sounds and tune the sounds with EFX, ADR/Filter etc
- save to registration
&rArr: MODE PIANO button switches VR to the ‘preselected’ piano patch (with factory defaults for EFX, envelope, filter, etc)
&rArr: VR Registration button switches VR to the synth-layer/split
Of course you can also include MODE ORGAN with this configuration
(III) Using the MODE buttons with VR registrations and V-COMBO EDITOR
Registrations like the upper can also be ‘prepared’ with the EDITOR – with even more freedom for selecting sounds:
One must ‘preload’ the two factory default ‘PIANO’ and ‘SYNTH’ voices:
Upper-VCE corresponds to MODE PIANO
Upper-SYN1corresponds to MODE SYNTH
MODE button PIANO will swich to Upper-VCE, mode button SYNTH will switch to Upper-SYN1
In each voice one can load any patch from PIANO or SYNTH section (but NOT from eXtra or Atelier), e.g. a synth patch into Upper-VCE or a piano into UpperSYN1
Example 1: use the MODE button to toggle between 2 synth sounds
Upper VCE is ‘preloaded’ with ‘Pulse Lead’
Upper SYN1 is ‘preloaded’ with ‘OB Strings’
⇒ MODE PIANO button switches VR to ‘Pulse Lead’
⇒ MODE SYNTH button switches VR to ‘OB Strings’
Example 2: use MODE buttons with VR Registration buttons (1-4)
Upper VCE is ‘preloaded’ with ‘FM Piano’
Upper SYN1 is ‘preloaded’ with ‘Pulse Lead’.
Solo and SYN2 is a ‘layer’ with ‘ResoSweepBrass’ and ‘OB Strings’, with customised with EFX and envelope/filter
the ‘layer’ is saved as ‘the registration’
⇒ MODE PIANO button switches to FM Piano
⇒ MODE SYNTH button switches to Pulse Lead
⇒ VR-Registration button switches to “OB Strings + ResoSweepBrass” + custom EFX/ADR-CR
Example 3: use MODE buttons and the VR Registration button (1-4) and ‘hidden sounds’
While a voice that shall be used for a MODE button must be a VR factory sound, the ‘active voices’ of the registation itself can also be used with patches from eXtra and ATELIER !
Upper-SYN1 is preloaded with moogisch ‘Pure Lead’ (VR factory patch)
‘the registration’ – Solo, Upper-VCE+SYN2 – is a multi-layer of ‘Crystal Pad’ (ATELIER), ‘Halo Pad’ (eXtra) and ‘Juno Str.’ (VR factory)
⇒ MODE SYNTH button switches VR to ‘Pure Lead’
⇒ VR Registration button switches VR to the multi-layer
Of course it’s also possible to combine ‘registrations as multizone’ (splits) with MODE patches.
(IV) Remarks
- MODE buttons preserve VR seemsless transition (the latest sound is not cut off)
- ‘DRUM’ voice can also be ‘preload’ with a drumkit, e.g. TR-707, and saved to the registration
So when press the ‘DRUM’ button, VR switches to TR-707