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Introduction

The purpose of this book is to find and call instruments more easily from Roland's INTEGRA-7. It intends to be of practical value to the electronic musician.

Background

The Roland INTEGRA-7 was introduced in 2012 [Rola12] and still is in demand at the time of this writing. The INTEGRA-7 is a versatile synthesizer packed with sounds. However, accessing them can be overwhelming.

Probably the most common approach to call a specific instrument or sound is to use the front panel and its menus to navigate sounds, e.g. by category. However, this front-panel approach tends to become inconvenient after a while.

Roland provides two versatile editors [Inte00], [Rola00]. Both allow to modify existing sounds and to create new sounds. Though both editors provide more flexibility and instant access, it is still hard to get an overview of all the INTEGRA-7's capabilities.

Problems

E.g. when currently using the iOS-version you can select from the many categories by icons, but the instruments listed still come unsorted. Well, you can load each one rapidly, but are not better of than through the front-panel navigation.

Moreover, instruments you'd like to use almost always are scattered across all banks. Did you know the INTEGRA-7 provides a total of 6.023 tones/sounds, categorized into 36 groups? When planning for instrumentation or orchestration for your music you probably want to know, which instruments you can use from several banks, how they sound together, where to find them and how to activate them with low effort.

Roland provides a Sound List [Inte12b] for this purpose, giving detailed information for the MIDI-programmer. However, this document is structured by presets and expansion sounds, or simply banks. For a given bank it's sometimes hard to know, which instruments are available.

That's what this book was made for

So the idea of this book is to make the instruments easier to access by category for you, to ease your planning. So it will give you:

 a summarized view on the categories

 a brief overview about the tones

 some hints on loading banks

 a very large chapter about each instrument category.

The first one will provide you with keywords you can use, e.g., when searching the Sound List [Inte12b].

The second one describes Roland's intention for each expansion sound. You can find it at the beginning of the tables given in the Sound List [Inte12b], but it's easy to overlook there. So here the information is presented in a more evident and compact format. Use this section as a general selection tool, which expansion sounds to load.

The third one recalls loading of Extension Sounds via the front-panel and provides the required sysex message for you, if you want to assign this task to your sequencer.

The fourth one helps you to answer questions about the INTEGRA-7 like:

 which sounds do I have, say for an ‘Organ’?

 which expansion sounds do I have to load, if any?

 what's the tones/sounds number, when dialing through the front-panel?

 which MIDI-string to send via a sequencer for quicker access?

May this book be helpful while you plan, organize and create music involving the Roland INTEGRA-7 Sound Module.

Michael Schlüter, Buchholz i.d.N. , Fall 2020