Saving Your Style To Disk; Programming Other Parts And Divisions; Muting Parts While Recording Others - Roland VA-76 Owner's Manual

VA-76 Owner's Manual—Programming User Styles

Saving your Style to disk

If you are serious about programming your own
Styles, make it a habit to save them as frequently as
possible. After all, if someone decided to turn off your
VA-76 now, you would lose everything you have pro-
grammed so far.
That disk can also serve as backup whenever you erase
or change something you actually wanted to keep.
Naming your User Style
1. Press the [Utility] field in the bottom row and the
[Name] field in the left column.
Before saving a Style to disk, you should name it.
Choose a name that tells you something about the
nature of the Style. The name you enter here will be
displayed on the Master page every time you select this
Style (via Disk Link, if assigned, or as "Disk User
Style").
2. Enter the name that should be displayed whenever
you select this Style. See page 68 for the available
options.
Saving your Style
3. Press the [Save] field to jump to the Save Style page:
4. Press the [ZIP] or [FLOPPY] field to select the drive
you wish to use for saving your User Style.
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5. Press the [Name] field.
You have just specified the Style name, so there is no
need to do so on this page.
6. Press the [File Name] field and enter the name
under which your User Style should be saved.
See page 109 for the difference between Style and File
Names.
Note: The [A/a] field is not displayed when you select the
[File Name] field. That is because the File Name conforms
to the MS-DOS standard and only allows for (eight) upper-
case characters.
7. Insert a floppy or Zip disk into the desired drive
and press [EXECUTE] to save your Style to disk.
Remember that your VA-76 is multitasking, so that
you can leave this page as soon as the VA-76 starts sav-
ing the Style to disk:
8. Press [oBack] to return to the User Style Com-
poser.
9. Press [Rec] (below) and [Master] (left column) to
the User Style Master page.

Programming other parts and divisions

You can now record the second part – probably the
bass. If you'd like to do the guided tour again, go back
to page 165. Do not forget to set the key for the bass
part (see page 166).
You probably know how to record other parts
(Accomp1~Accomp6), so we'll leave you to it (see
"Recording User Styles from scratch" on page 165).
Once the first division is finished, you can record
other divisions. Use the clone function (see page 166)
to record several patterns in one go.
Do not forget to record the Fills and the Intro(s)/End-
ing(s) to complete your User Style.
Note: The ABass part is monophonic. You will not be able to
program two-note patterns.

Muting parts while recording others

After programming a few tracks, you may find that
certain tracks tend to confuse you. Playing a steady
organ part while listening to a previously recorded
syncopated part may indeed be difficult. That is why
the VA-76 allows you to mute those parts that you do
not want to hear during recording.