Saving RD-88 volume settings for individual sounds

[FarmerCharlie]

I'm gigging with my new-ish RD-88. I sit down and take great care to work through the different voices (not sure what Roland call them these days!) that I'm going to use for the evening - piano, clavi, organ etc... I set the volume levels using the little knobs marked 'level' (lower/upper1/upper2) for each one, and once I'm happy, move on the next 'voice'.

The trouble is, as soon as I go back to the voice that i thought I'd set correctly, it's gone back to some sort of default - whcih in some cases is deafening - and slightly embarrassing! (Clavi 76 springs to mind)

How can I get the volume levels to stay as I wanted them? The handbook, whcih seems to have been translated from the Japanese by a Hungarian into Polish and then into English by a Brazilian, is no help.

 

[delaware dave]

make the volume change for voice 1, then save the patch (program, whatever its called). ghen adjust voice #2 level and resave the patch, in other words save the patch every time you change each voices volume.

 

[FarmerCharlie]

So, save them in the (hugely complicated) 'favourites' system, and only use those during performances?

 

[Old No7]

So, save them in the (hugely complicated) 'favourites' system, and only use those during performances?

I had sold my RD-88 to get a Fantom-08...

But I believe you can overwrite the system's saved "scene" with the "write" and "save" commands -- but I don't know if that saves the volume levels that you dialed in with the knobs. If I recall, one of the menu options when using the "write" command includes "scene edit", where you can adjust the volume and other parameters of that scene -- and I think volume can be adjusted by tone (lower, upper 1, upper 2) as well. Check it out.

Menu-diving isn't fun -- but if it saves just what you want, it's probably worth the effort.

Old No7

 

[Old No7]

I set the volume levels using the little knobs marked 'level' (lower/upper1/upper2) for each one, and once I'm happy, move on the next 'voice'.

I believe the knobs on the RD-88 are expressly for adjusting parameters when playing "live" -- try what I mentioned above and reply here to confirm if that saves the preset volumes you want saved. As that will help others.

Old No7