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http://www.roland.com/VariOS/
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V-Producer such as product information, system requirements and other
additional information.
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Major changes from V-Producer version 2.5.1 to 3.0.0
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[Added functions]
- A Melody Cancel function has been added. (VariOS system program version 1.07 is required.)
- A count-in function has been added to the metronome. Double-click the Metronome button to open the Metronome Setting dialog box.
- A Groove Quantize window has been added. This lets you match the timing (groove) of two samples according to the event location.
- A Step Editor function has been added to the VariOS Keyboard.
- The capability to arpeggiate at the Slice timing has been added to the VariOS Keyboard.
- The capability to synchronize the Note-on timing to the beat of the sequencer has been added to the VariOS Keyboard.
- A Swing parameter has been added to the quantize function of the Scope Editor.
- An LFO button has been added to the Scope Editor. This lets you input a single-cycle LFO curve over two grids.
- In the Phrase Scope you can now quantize slice locations as well as notes.
- A Note Lock button has been added to the Phrase Scope. If this is ON, the Note locations will not move when you edit Time.
- A Wave Edit menu has been added to the main menu. You can use this in the Wave Edit screen when you're in edit mode.
- A Preferences command has been added to the Option menu.
- A [Remove] button has been added to the Load Wave Files screen.
- An Offset parameter has been added to the Part Property. This lets you specify an Offset tick for the playback timing of each part.
- Import Mixer Settings and Export Mixer Settings commands have been added to the File menu.
- When exporting Wave data, you can now export it as monaural data.
- You can now specify two levels of gain settings when exporting Wave data.
[Improvements]
- When saving a sample in the Wave Edit screen, you can now save with a different name.
- More measures can now be displayed when you zoom-out a VariTrack.
- You can double-click the VariTrack Vol+ or Pan+ area to reset it.
- The playback cursor is now displayed in the ruler area of the Scope Editor screen.
- In the Phrase Scope you can click the note name display area to select all occurrences of the corresponding note.
- The waveform is displayed in the scroll bar of the Wave Edit screen. You can now drag the ends of the bar to change the zoom ratio.
- For the VariOS Keyboard, the graphics shown when note-ons are received have been changed.
- The graphics of the VariOS Pad cursor have been changed.
- A CLR (Clear) command has been added to the Frame Take pulldown menu. This deletes all takes that were being held.
- When you use the scissors tool in the Phrase Scope to cut the waveform in the waveform display area, the divided location is now shown as a vertical light blue line.
- In the control display area of the Scope Editor screen, the arrangement of the buttons has been changed.
- The slice name of each slice in the Groove Scope can now be displayed.
- When zooming, you can now zoom the display centered on the cursor location.
- When you reload a previously loaded .wav/AIFF file in the Load Wave Files screen, you can now choose "No" in the Overwrite confirmation dialog box, so that the already-saved VPW file will be loaded.
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Major changes from V-Producer version 2.5.0 to 2.5.1
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[Improvements]
Windows
- We have fixed the problem that caused a hang-up when you click a window other than the VariOS Keyboard while playing your computer keyboard with the HOLD button turned ON in the VariOS keyboard and the USE PC KEY button also turned on.
Mac OS
- We have fixed the problem that made it impossible to load 24-bit Wave files.
- We have fixed the problem that caused a hang-up when you execute New Project in Vari Track.
- In the Solo Encode Option dialog box, the indications "Max Frequency" and "Min Frequency" were formerly the reverse of what they should have been. They have been moved to the correct locations.
- We have fixed the problem that caused shortcut settings and screen set settings to not be saved.
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Major changes from V-Producer version 2.1.0 to 2.5.0
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[Added functions]
- The design of the VariOS Keyboard has been revised, and a new arpeggiator function has been added.
- The VariOS Keyboard's Surface controller is now independent, and a new VariOS Pad screen has been added.
- You can now use your mouse to directly edit the waveform area of the PhraseScope. This lets you intuitively edit notes or Time.
- A Harmony function has been added to the PhraseScope, letting you generate various chords with the selected note as the root.
- The VariOS's internal effects are now applied to the wave file that is exported by the Export Wave File command.
- A function that lets you export only the selected frame as a wave file has been added.
- An Export to SampleList button has been added, providing an effect similar to resampling. The selected frame will be exported as a single file, and automatically registered in the SampleList.
- A Solo Encode Option has been added to WaveEdit. This minimizes pitch detection errors when using SOLO encoding.
- In the GrooveScope, you can now click the Slice name display area to select that slice at once.
[Improvements]
- We have fixed the problem that had caused the file to be exported with an incorrect LFO tempo if [Export Wave File] was used to export a Wave file when the sample LFO was synchronized to the master tempo.
- In the PhraseScope, you can now copy by dragging and dropping a note while you hold down the [Ctrl] key of the keyboard (in Mac OS, the [option] key).
- In the PhraseScope, you can now delete notes that are colored light blue (default notes).
- (Mac version) In the VariOS Keyboard, we have fixed the problem that had made it impossible to octave-shift using the left/right keys of the computer.
- We have fixed the problem that had made it impossible to load Wav files
exported by SONAR.
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Major changes from V-Producer Version 2.0.0 to 2.1.0
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[Added functions]
- Loading of SD2 files is now supported.
- A Random function has been added to the Groove Scope.
- A Screen Set function has been added to the [View] menu.
- The capability to jump to the VariOS website has been added to the [Help] menu.
- You can now use a shortcut key in the VariOS keyboard to input TIME Zero.
- You can now use a VariOS keyboard shortcut to reset the Pitch/Time/Formant.
- In the [Customize Shortcut Keys] menu, a [Reset All] shortcut function has been added which simultaneously resets the Pitch, Time, Formant, and Dynamics of the Scope Editor screen.
- A function that switches the display grid has been added to Wave Edit.
- A Reverse command has been added to WaveEdit.
[Improvements]
- You can now make rectangular selections of notes in the Scope Editor screen.
- When the Punch IN/OUT button is turned ON in the Scope Edit screen, the Modify Record button will also turn ON.
- In the Groove Scope, you can now click on the original waveform display area to preview the playback.
- You can now resize the VariTrack vertically.
- You can now resize the tree display area in the Load Wave Files dialog box.
- When "Auto Play" for Load Wave Files is ON, you can now use the up/down cursor keys to audition the file.
- We have fixed the problem that had caused MIDI Sync settings to not be saved in the song.
- The Mute/Solo state is now saved when you switch projects.
- The Preplay function is now always ON; the Preplay command of the [Option]-[Play Option] menu and the Preplay button in the locator have been eliminated.
- You can now use the VariOS Keyboard to input performance data into the part selected by the part buttons.
- By double-clicking the knobs in the VariOS Keyboard you can now reset Pitch/Time/Formant.
- In the [Customize Shortcut Keys] menu you can now specify shortcut keys for the VariOS Keyboard.
- We have fixed the problem in which playing back from the middle of a frame with Playback mode set to Step had caused playback to always begin from the first event. (VariOS system program Ver. 1.05 is required.)
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(2004.Jan.)
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