Roland V-Tour Series Setup guide

V-Tour Series
TD-15K
TRAINING GUIDE
Contents
1) OVERVIEW
2) FEATURES
3) QUICK DEMO
4) FIVE THINGS TO KNOW
5) ACCESSORIES

1) OVERVIEW
The V-Tour Series TD-15K is a professional yet affordable V-Drums set
utilizing economical all mesh PDX-Series V-Pads and dedicated V-
Cymbals. With its unique features, it is the perfect drum set for a wide
variety of applications - practicing, recording, live playing, and teaching.
The SuperNATURAL sound engine provides expressive and dynamic
drum and percussion sounds giving you a complete and natural drumming
experience.
2) FEATURES
•TD-15 SuperNATURAL Drum Sound Module features 500 expressive
sounds, 100 kits, and backing songs.
•Quick Rec/Quick Play lets users record themselves and instantly play it
back for self-assessment. You can even record your performance playing
with the backing songs.
•Unique Coach function includes exercises to challenge player’s
drumming skills so players get better, faster.
•Quick Edit button for customizing sounds easily (pitch, decay, snare
buzz)
•Mesh head V-Pads provide a natural feel that can be tensioned to the
players liking.
•Various types of room ambience and multi-effects to create natural and
unique sounds.
•USB port for audio playback via USB flash memory and USB-MIDI/Audio
interface.

3) QUICK DEMO
Select Patches 1-15
to show the variety of sounds.
Show the Coach Mode
Push the Coach Button and play
along with the first exercise “Time
Check” and play in time. The gage
in the display will show you if
you’re playing in time and will give
you a score at the end of 8 bars.
Show the Quick Edit Button
Push the Quick Edit Button and hit any pad
to start editing the parameter in the display.
Each time you push the Quick Edit Button, it
will go to a new editing parameter.
Show Quick Rec/ Quick Play
Push the Quick Rec button.
Play the set and then push the Play
Button to instantly hear it back.
> Show the dual-trigger mesh V-Pads and how you can tension them
> Show how you can choke the cymbals
> Show the 3-way trigger ride cymbal
> Show the smooth closed-to-open hihat with foot splash
Play the Built-in Backing Songs
Push the Song Button and select any of the
backing songs.
You can record yourself playing with the songs
by using the QuickRec/Quick Play function.

5) ACCESSORIES
The TD-15 Drum Sound Module has 2 (two) additional dual-trigger trigger inputs
•Add any Roland V-Pad or V-Cymbal (except VH-13) to connect to the
aux inputs. You can also upgrade the hi-hat to the VH-11 V-Hi-hat (note:
all pads and cymbals come with a connecting cable. The CY-Cymbals
also come with a rotation stopper, felt, and wingnut)
•MDH-12 Pad Clamp
•MDY-12 Cymbal Arm
•RH- Series headphones
•PM-10 / CM-110 / CM-220 Amplifiers
•DT-1 (Drum Tutor) drum training software
4) FIVE THINGS TO KNOW
1) A wide variety of expressive drum and percussion sounds
2) Natural playability via the dual-trigger mesh V-Pads. Cymbals pads have
choke capability
3) A variety of playback songs
4) Quick Rec/ Quick Play
5) Coach mode exercises for rhythm training