Comments on: V-Combo VR-09 – Made for Live Playing

By: OV Valle [Roland US]

OV Valle [Roland US] — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 21:16:11 +0000

Sorry Adam, it doesn’t work that fast.

By: Adam Smith

Adam Smith — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 14:38:00 +0000

So any new on fixing these Bugs?

people are not going to buy this thing until its fixed!!

By: OV Valle [Roland US]

OV Valle [Roland US] — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 00:25:57 +0000

Thanks for your feedback, all issues have been forwarded to our product development team.

By: Lorenzo Giovagnoli

Lorenzo Giovagnoli — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 08:35:08 +0000

And I forgot to add: The FXS page should be stored “per patch” and not global, so every patch can route its effects on the fly! THet would definitely make it a “stage keyboard”

By: Lorenzo Giovagnoli

Lorenzo Giovagnoli — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 08:28:14 +0000

I tried one today, the dealer had a great price but its bugs made me choose not to buy it: The model I tried processed every sound, layer or split, into the rotary speaker when this was on. Any patch I would create would be totally useless for me at this point. Factory layered organ-and-synth sounds were in fact stored with leslie off.
I made the dealer notice the bug, so he called some italian Roland manager who assured that the DSPs were independent and that it was me not able to solve the problem.
IF every DSP is indipendent then why on earth wasn’t an issue like this previewed…
It would be necessary, in my opinion, to provide an OS update adding a page in the FXS menu where, for every effect, you can select 7 options: ORGAN, Upper, lower, upper and lower, lower and organ, upper and organ, global. This would not be a major update, only making the instrument usable. The NOTE ON trigger when changing the sound is another clear bug, and needs to be solved. The expression pedal affecting only the organ is another thing that every serious organ player will require, while, the chorus NOT affecting the percussion would be another step towards makin this instrument the great keyboard that it can be. Kurzweil keeps refining its intruments with new OS versions (the PC3LE was a rompler, it became a fully programmable synth with an OS utdate) I hope you put one extra effort on this, there are just too many bugs.

By: OV Valle [Roland US]

OV Valle [Roland US] — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 20:49:17 +0000

No worries Craig, I’m not the synth expert, but I work closely with them. I’ll check that forum again later.

By: OV Valle [Roland US]

OV Valle [Roland US] — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 20:47:48 +0000

Thanks Jay!

By: Jay (High Diving Act)

Jay (High Diving Act) — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 19:35:40 +0000

OV. Looks like the forum might be down temporarily. I can’t get on either. Here’s the URL
http://forums.musicplayer.com/ubbthreads.php/forums/18/1/The_Keyboard_Corner

By: Craig MacDonald

Craig MacDonald — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 18:55:19 +0000

OV, the keyboard corner forums just happen to be down now.. (which is very unusual) when they’re back up I will let you know. Thanks for passing my question on.. Craig

By: OV Valle [Roland US]

OV Valle [Roland US] — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 17:04:20 +0000

Hi Craig, could you please provide the direct URL to the keyboard corner forums? I Googled keyboard corner forums and ended up with a site error. Also, your other question regarding VR-09 organ sounds has been submitted to our product support team. We’ll post the question and the answer as soon as a response is made.

By: Craig MacDonald

Craig MacDonald — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 15:54:57 +0000

OV, a question… how do I make changes to the default organ, and save it so that the VR-09 turns on with MY organ..? I make changes to the default organ to make it sound the way I like it, and I cannot seem to figure out how to save it (so that when the VR-09 starts up it automatically has my changes). Can you tell me, how to do so? Similarly, am I able to save changes to default pianos and EP’s etc.. and save them… or is the only option to take a sound modify it and save it to a registration? Thanks.

By: Craig MacDonald

Craig MacDonald — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 10:54:42 +0000

OV, there are several VR-09 threads on the keyboard Corner forums. You should read these and participate in them. Your counterpart at Casio gets tremendous accolades for his participant, answering questions and providing informant to those who own equipment or who are considering purchasing stuff from Casio. Because of this, they get credit for caring about the end user. There is zero participation on this board from Roland. This would go a long towards establishing a reputation for listening to customers! Thanks for your ongoing support! This blog helps too!

By: Brenner13

Brenner13 — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 16:26:19 +0000

It’s a good board at a decent value, buy OY…so many issues. Ended up keeping mine because I need a good organ sound that’s easy to schlep to bar gigs. Works pretty good for this at quite a fair price. However, I’m getting on the bandwagon and requesting an OS update to address functionality needs:

1) Expression pedal needs to be assignable per part like the damper is.
2) Pedal assignments need to be saved per registration so the same pedal works as damper for pianos and rotary fast/slow for organs.
3) Layered non-organ sounds need to be able to bypass the rotary.
4) Need to be able to save individual registrations to and from USB rather than only all 100 spots at a time.

Sure hope the fine folks at Roland can prove all the haters wrong and make this the fantastic piece of gear that it is capable of being. Sales would surely exponentiate with a stronger OS.

Thanks for what you do. Hopefully you have Roland to back you up while you deflect the dirt clods and rotten tomatoes.

By: Lorenzo Giovagnoli

Lorenzo Giovagnoli — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 11:17:19 +0000

I am also waiting to buy a vr09 until those bugs are solved, especially the expression pedal thing, the note/on on program change and the vibrato affecting the percussion. Also being able to route the effects, when layering organ and strings, (you don’t want Leslie to affect the strings!!!!) for example, needs to be done in order to create usable patches, like a vk7 for example allows to do. Being very interested on that keyboard I hope that can all soon be solved.
I possess a vr 700, I like it, but there actually is a big issue: the damper is global, so if I create a split with piano and organ, and want only the piano to respond to sustain, that can’t be done, making it l not usable for me in lots of situations. I am surprised no one complained before about this and kindly ask if this can be solved with a os improvement.
Let me thank Craig McDonald for providing useful and detailed infos about the vr09 on the musicplayer forum, he is doing a great job.
Cheers ,thanks for your attention
Lorenzo Giovagnoli

By: Kevin Tracy

Kevin Tracy — Sun, 02 Jun 2013 10:28:42 +0000

Please do the right thing by the loyal user fix the flaws,unleash the hounds