Copying Entire Styles Using Load (All Tracks); Copying Existing Styles; Copying Individual Style Tracks - Roland VA-76 Owner's Manual

VA-76 Owner's Manual—Programming User Styles

12.3 Copying existing Styles

Another way of programming User Styles is to use
parts from internal Styles in ROM or User Styles on
(floppy, Zip) disk. The VA-76 allows you to:
• Copy entire Styles to the Style RAM memory (Disk
User)
• Copy the selected division of one or all tracks
• Copy just a few notes of an existing part
• Copy tracks or notes between divisions
This allows you to create new Styles by using tracks
from different existing Styles (the drums of Style B34,
the bass of Style A63, etc.).
Note: You cannot copy an ADrums track to another track
(ABass~Accomp6). Likewise, the bass part can only be cop-
ied to an A.Bass track. As far as the ACC tracks are con-
cerned, you are free to copy them to whichever ACC track
you like.
Note: If the Style RAM memory already contains new data,
save it to disk before copying. The VA-76 has no Undo func-
tion. Saving a Style to disk before copying will allow you to
load the previous version in case something goes wrong. See
"Saving your Style to disk" on page 170.
Copying entire Styles using Load (all
tracks)
1. Press [EXIT] to return to the Master page.
2. Press the [FUNCTION MENU] button.
3. Press the [Disk] field to select the Disk mode.
4. If the [Load] field in the bottom row is not high-
lighted, press it.
5. Press the [Style] field.
6. Press the [INT A/B] field so that it is displayed in
white.
INT A/B allows you to select any internal Music Style
(A11~B88). If you wish to copy a Style from disk,
press the [FLOPPY] or [ZIP] field.
The window displays a list of Styles in the internal
memory (Int) or on the disk.
7. Use the [o][k] fields or the [TEMPO/DATA] dial
to scroll through the list of available Styles.
8. Press the field of the Style you wish to copy.
9. Press [EXECUTE] to load the Style.
10. Press [oBack] to return to the Function Menu.
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11. Press the [User Style Composer] field to return to
the User Style Composer.
Note: Pressing [oBack] takes you back to the User Style
Composer.
Note: This procedure is not really necessary because select-
ing a Disk Link or Disk User Style in the VA-76's Arranger
mode has exactly the same effect as this function. Here,
however, you know exactly what you're doing.

Copying individual Style tracks

While the previous function allows you to copy entire
Styles, the Copy function can be used to copy individ-
ual tracks, modes, types, and divisions.
1. Press the [Utility] field in the bottom row while a
User Style Composer page is displayed.
2. Press the [Copy] field in the left column.
3. Press the [Source] field.
4. Press the [Track] field and use the [TEMPO/DATA]
dial to select the track to be copied.
5. Repeat this operation with the [Mode], [Type] and
[Division] fields to select the Mode (Maj, Min, 7th,
ALL), the Type (Bsc, Adv, ALL), and the Division (Or,
Va, Fo, Fv, In, Ed, ALL).
6. Next, select the Style (internal banks A~C) that
contains the track(s) to be copied:
a) Press the [GBN/Style Name] field.
b) Use the [TEMPO/DATA] dial or the BANK/NUM-
BER pad to select the desired Style.
Note: Do not forget to insert the required disk before select-
ing a Style from bank C (Disk Link).