                           StealCountry 1.05
                           by  Nathan Sheldon
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    A patch for the Roland JV-1080, JV-2080, XP-50, XP-60 and XP-80.
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Overview:

This is my attempt to create a steel guitar sound, as heard in many
country music songs.  It's a simple patch that uses only one Tone.  The
Chorous and Reverb processors are both used, though not absolutely
required.  The patch does (of course) sound better with them though. 
The EFX processor is not used so you can use it with other Parts of a
Performance when in Performance mode.  The patch sounds best in the
upper part of the register.  Because the patch is based on a Jazz Guitar
waveform, timbral characteristics are too harsh in the lower part of the
register; it begins to sound more like the Jazz Guitar.

Requirements:

None (other than a JV or XP synth).  No expansion boards are required.

Control:

Use this:            to do this:
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Modulation           add vibrato
Pitch Bend           bend the pitch from -2 to +2 semi-tones
Aftertouch           bend the pitch up to +2 semi-tones

Note that if you have a JV-2080 or XP-80 (and possibly the XP-60) and a
controller keyboard that outputs Polyphonic (Key) Aftertouch, or if you
have a sequencer that you can manually adjust polyphonic aftertouch for
each key, you can transmit polyphonic aftertouch to the module/keyboard
and bend the pitch of each active note seperately, like a real steel
guitar player can.  You have to have your system set up to recognize
polyphonic aftertouch (in the SYSTEM/Control Source screen on the XP-80
and probably the JV-2080 and XP-60 as well).  I don't know if the
JV-1080 or XP-50 handle polyphonic aftertouch polyphonicly, as I've
heard poly aftertouch is treated as channel aftertouch in these two
synths, but you can try.  Note that none of the XPs' keyboard output
polyphonic aftertouch, only channel aftertouch, but the XP-80 as well as
the JV-2080 I believe (and probably the XP-60) recognize and treat
polyphonic aftertouch polyphonicly.

More Specifics:

The patch uses the INT-A 074 (Jazz Gtr C) waveform.  Only one Tone is
used, TONE 1.  I set the Analog Feel to 5 because when the sample begins
looping, as with most samples, it sounds too rigid and mechanical.  I
felt it would be impossible for any steel goutar player to hold a not
perfectly like this, so I added a bit of "predictable randomness" (as
the XP-80 manual calls it) to the sound via the Analog Feel parameter. 
The Pitch Bend range is set from -2 to +2.  I used a Low-Pass Filter
with the Cutoff Frequency at 73 and Resonance at 28.  There is a Cutoff
Keyfollow of +70.  The reason the Cutoff Frequency is so low is because
I used a filter envelope with a depth of +7 that raises the cutoff at
key-on and slowly drops it.  the TVA settings are relatively uninteresting.
I did put a small Bias in the upper reagion (from E3 up) of the register
so those notes would be a bit (not much) louder.  I used LFO 1 for the
vibrato effect, utilizing a sine wave with a rate setting of 95.
Modulation adjusts the pitch depth of this LFO.

Notes And Commnets:

Please feel free to comment on this patch.  You can use it freely
anywhere you wish and re-distribute it (along with this document)
anywhere.  It is, howver, Copyright 1998 by Nathan Sheldon.  :-)  I can
be reached via e-mail at

nsheldon@geocities.com


Version History:

1.0  Initial release.

1.05  Increased the cutoff frequency to 73 to make the sound brighter. 
Lowered the resonance to +28 and increased the Resonance Vel Sens to +10
to slightly increase brightness at higher velocities.  Increased the TVF
Envelope Depth to +7 and Velocity Sens to +78 to make the sound brighter
as velocity increases (like plucking the steel guitar's string harder). 
Made miscellanious small adjustments to Patch Controls and turned on
Redampering to more accurately simulate the pedal action of a real steel
guitar.
