Song List: Searching Songs On Disk (Find); Play & Search: Finding Songs By Playing A Few Notes - Roland VA-76 Owner's Manual

If you press [YES], the display shows an animated
clock to indicate that the disk is being formatted.
You can exit this display page without interrupting the
formatting process by pressing the [EXIT] field. That
allows you to do something else while the VA-76 is
formatting.
Before recording
Though you can record without using the Arranger,
that is probably not what you want to do. Here are a
few things you should do before starting to record:
1. Stop Arranger playback.
2. Assign the desired Tones to the Keyboard parts you
want to use for recording. Select the desired Vari-
Phrase if you wish to use it for recording.
Note: The notes played with the VariPhrase part will sound
different on other SMF-compatible instruments because the
VariPhrase processor does not conform to the GM/GM-2/
GS format. As long as you only want to play back your songs
using the VA-76 (or a VA-7), nothing should stop your from
taking advantage of the VariPhrase part.
3. Select the desired Keyboard Mode (see page 34).
4. Select the desired Arranger Chord mode (see
page 102).
5. Select the Style, the division etc. you want to use.
6. Prepare the desired Orchestrator and Morphing
settings (see page 62).
There are at least three other ways of configuring the
VA-76:
a) Use the Virtual Band function (see page 22).
b) Select the User Program that contains all the set-
tings you need for the song you are about to record
(see page 128).
c) Select a Style while the One Touch function (see
page 29) is on.
7. See page 65 for what to do now.
VA-76 – Song List: searching songs on disk (Find)
10.2 Song List: searching songs
on disk (Find)
Like the Arranger, the Song Composer provides a
clever system for locating the desired song on a Zip
disk. The display pages for floppy disks look similar,
but they neither provide the [Author] and [Genre]
fields, nor the Find functions.
The Song List Find function is very similar to the Find
function for Music Styles. See "Find: locating Styles on
a Zip disk" on page 109. One item has a different
name, though, because that makes more sense: Author
replaces the "Country" entry of the Music Style Find
function. Apart from that, the Song List function
should feel familiar. The "Author" can refer to the art-
ist who made the song famous, or to the composer
(who might be a different person, as you know).
1. Press the [SONG COMPOSER] button.
2. On the display page that appears now, press the
[Song List] field.
3. See page 109 for the main operational steps.
Play & Search: finding Songs by playing a
few notes
The Play & Search function (or P&S) is like a very
gifted assistant. You can ask your VA-76 something
like the following: "what's the name of the song that
goes like this..." (and then you play the main theme).
Here is how to use this exciting function:
Note: This function is only available for Zip disks, so be sure
to press the [ZIP] field (next to [LOAD] and [FLOPPY]).
1. On the Zip Song Options page (see above), press
the [Find] field.
There are now three options: [GO To...], [Find Only],
and [Play & Search].
2. Press the [Play & Search] field.
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