Combining/Splitting A Variphrase With Another Keyboard Part; Playing" With The Variphrases - Roland VA-76 Owner's Manual

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The bank names tell you something about the kind of
situations for which the phrases were originally
intended. The Melodic phrases can be used for playing
solo lines, while the Rhythmic and Background phrases
are probably more convincing for spicing up your
music with the odd vocal accent. But there is no need
to use the phrases in this way. A Rhythmic phrase
might work equally well as solo line.
• Use the number buttons ([1]~[8]) to select a memory
of the active bank.
As always, the buttons you press light. In the case of
the [GROUP] button, however, the "A" or "B" indica-
tor lights.
Note: You can switch off the VariPhrase part by pressing the
bank button that lights. This will once again switch on the
UP1 (or LW1) part. You could use this for alternating
between instrumental and vocal parts.
Below please find a list of all internal VariPhrases. It
also contains the MIDI addresses of these phrases
(Program Change and CC00/CC32 Bank Select) that
you may not need here, but they may come in handy
at a later stage. The VariPhrase part receives on MIDI
channel 13. See page 197 for details about MIDI.
One last thing: you can ignore the first number ("1–",
for example) as this corresponds to the bank button
you pressed (1= Background, 2= Melodic, 3= Rhyth-
mic).
GBN PC CC00 CC32 Phrase Name
BACKGROUND
A1-1 001 096 096 Uaah uaah M
A1-2 002 096 096 Uaah uaah F
A1-3 003 096 096 Uaah uuh M
A1-4 004 096 096 Uaah uuh F
A1-5 005 096 096 Uah Uah U M
A1-6 006 096 096 Uah Uah U F
A1-7 007 096 096 Uahua Uah F
A1-8 008 096 096 Na,nanana F
MELODIC
A2-1 009 096 096 Baby,Baby M
A2-2 010 096 096 Your Love M
A2-3 011 096 096 Ooh, Baby M
A2-4 012 096 096 Com'on M
A2-5 013 096 096 SetMeFree M
A2-6 014 096 096 OohDarlin M
A2-7 015 096 096 HoneyINed M
A2-8 016 096 096 HoneyINed F
RHYTHMIC
A3-1 017 096 096 Dot,do,do M
A3-2 018 096 096 Tururu,Tu M
A3-3 019 096 096 DoidiDatt M
A3-4 020 096 096 DoYeahDat M
A3-5 021 096 096 Dabut,Dab M
A3-6 022 096 096 Dabada,Da M
A3-7 023 096 096 Taratta,T M
A3-8 024 096 096 ShuShuDo F
The VariPhrases in Bold-Italic do not start on the first
beat. You thus have to play them with a different tim-
ing, such as on the second beat of a bar, etc.
Note: Though they sound just fine by themselves, using the
VariPhrases in combination with the Arranger is an even
more rewarding experience. See page 29 for how to do that.
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GBN PC CC00 CC32 Phrase Name
BACKGROUND 2
B1-1 025 096 096 Hah,ha,ha M
B1-2 026 096 096 Hah,ha,ha M
B1-3 027 096 096 Ahi,ai,ai M
B1-4 028 096 096 Ahi,ai,ai F
B1-5 029 096 096 Yeah,ah M
B1-6 030 096 096 Yeah,ah F
B1-7 031 096 096 Eh,eh,eeh F
B1-8 032 096 096 Sha la la F
BACKGROUND 3
B2-1 033 096 096 Humaah,hu M
B2-2 034 096 096 Humaah,hu F
B2-3 035 096 096 TuruTuruh M
B2-4 036 096 096 TuruTuruh F
B2-5 037 096 096 Wow,wow M
B2-6 038 096 096 Wow,wow F
B2-7 039 096 096 BlaimBlai M
B2-8 040 096 096 BlaimBlai F
RHYTHMIC 2
B3-1 041 096 096 Tutu tah M
B3-2 042 096 096 Tutu tah F
B3-3 043 096 096 Lero,lero M
B3-4 044 096 096 Lero,lero F
B3-5 045 096 096 Eih!Olele M
B3-6 046 096 096 Eih!Olele F
B3-7 047 096 096 Ma,ma,mma F
B3-8 048 096 096 Keep on F
Combining/splitting a VariPhrase with
another Keyboard part
It is also possible to add either or both Upper parts
(UP1 and UP2) to your VariPhrase playing, which
allows you to double the vocals with a piano, trumpet,
organ, etc. part, or to add a chord backing to your left-
hand VariPhrase part.
The important thing to remember is that you need to
switch on UP1 or LW1 after activating the VariPhrase
part, for the VariPhrase part at first cancels the UP1 or
LW1 part. You can however, write your VariPhrase lay-
ers to a User Program. See page 127.

"Playing" with the VariPhrases

There is a lot more you can do with the on-board (and
your own User) phrases than we have seen so far. Let
us have a look at a few examples.
Key Assign
The Key Assign parameter allows you specify whether
or not you can play chords with the VariPhrase part
( ). Why would you want to do that?
Selecting Mono means that the VariPhrase part only
sounds one note you play with your right hand, even
though you may be playing two-voice lines or even
chords. In a layer combination, the VariPhrase part
would thus allow you to combine a chordal part
(Upper1 or Lower1) with a solo vocal line. Here's an
example: Suppose you switch on the VariPhrase and
Upper1 parts. Here's what happens when you play
chords in the right half (in SPLIT mode):
If you play this with
your right hand...
Note: The exact notes sounded by the VariPhrase part
depend on which chord note you strike last. The above
result may require some practice.
Mono can be used very effectively: if you press one key
to start the selected VariPhrase and then add a second
key, the phrase is transposed up or down – but contin-
ues. With the "Honey, I need you" phrase, for instance,
you could press a C for playing "Honey", then add the
E to the right of the C just before "I". This would trans-
pose the pitch of the "I" to E. If you then release the C
(but not the E), while playing a G, the rest of the
phrase ("need you") will be played in G. In other
words: the phrase runs from start to finish but changes
its pitch whenever you press another key. (If you select
Poly, the "I" and "need you" would be played using two
voices. Poly allows you to play chords.)
VariPhrase part (Mono mode)
Upper1 part