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Roland VA-76 Owner's Manual

Roland VA-76 Owner's Manual (264 pages)

V-Arranger Keyboard 128-voice polyphony

Brand: Roland | Category: Electronic Keyboard | Size: 10.34 MB

Table of Contents

Important Notes
7
Table of Contents
9
1 Panel Descriptions

12
- Front Panel
  12
- Rear Panel
  16
2 Setting up and Demo Songs

17
- Audio Connections
  17
- Listening to the Demo Songs
  17
3 Scratching the Surface

20
- The General Idea
  20
- Easy Routing: Quick Registration
  20
- The Master Page
  22
- Using the VA-76'S Arranger
  23
- Adding a Melody to the Accompaniment
  25
- Listening to Standard MIDI Files
  29
  - Minus One Playback
    30
4 Clinics

32
- Keyboard Mode Clinic
  32
  - Arranger and Piano Modes
    32
  - Split Point in Arranger Mode
    33
  - Other
    33
- Tone Clinic
  35
- Variphrase Clinic
  43
- Expression Clinic
  49
  - D Beam Controller
    49
  - Ribbon Controller (Touch Control)
    50
  - Aftertouch
    50
  - Pitch Bend/Modulation
    50
  - Transposition
    51
  - Octave
    52
  - PAD Buttons
    52
  - Foot Controller
    52
  - FC-7 Foot Controller
    52
  - Sustain Footswitch (Hold)
    53
  - Foot Switch
    53
  - Expression (Foot Pedal)
    53
  - Master Tune
    53
  - Metronome
    54
- Using Live Vocals
  55
- Arranger/Music Style Clinic
  57
  - Selecting Music Styles
    57
  - Orchestrator and Morphing
    60
- Song Composer Clinic
  63
  - Recording Your Music
    63
  - Redoing the Melody (2Nd Trk)
    64
  - Saving Your Song to Disk
    65
5 More about the Variphrase Part

67
- Playing with the User Memories
  67
  - Loading Variphrases, Variphrase Sets or Audio Files
    67
  - Selecting a User Memory
    68
- Sampling Your Own Phrases
  68
- Phrase Parameters
  75
  - Pitch
    75
  - Amplitude
    76
  - Phrase Ctrl
    76
  - Pan
    77
  - Portamento
    77
- Global Variphrase Functions
  79
  - Playback
    79
  - Trigger
    79
  - Mode
    80
- Controller Functions for the Variphrase Part
  80
- Truly "Global" Variphrase Parameters
  81
  - Style Linked (Phrase Select)
    81
  - Sync Settings
    82
6 Advanced Keyboard Part Functions

83
- Upper1 Functions
  83
  - More about the Super Tones
    83
- Upper2 Functions
  84
- LWR Hold
  88
- Velocity Sensitivity
  89
- Scale Tuning
  90
7 More about the Arranger

93
- Arranger and Music Styles
  93
  - Starting a Music Style
    93
  - Stopping a Music Style
    93
  - Sync (Options)
    94
- Selecting Other Style Divisions
  94
- Melody Intelligence
  97
- One Touch
  97
  - Ignoring Certain One Touch Settings (Cancel Options)
    98
  - Programming Your Own Tone Selections (Memorize)
    98
- More Refined Arranger Settings
  99
  - Arr(Anger) Hold
    99
  - Chord Recognition Area
    99
  - Arranger Chord Mode
    100
  - Bass Inversion
    100
  - Dynamic Arranger
    101
- Arranger Options
  102
  - (Arranger) Tempo
    102
  - Chord Family Assign, Alteratn
    103
  - Intro& Ending Alteration
    104
  - Musical Style Playback: Wrap
    104
- Selecting Tones for the Arranger Parts
  105
- Working with Styles on Disk
  106
  - Programming Your Own Disk Link Assignments
    106
  - Find: Locating Styles on a Zip Disk
    107
  - Rename (Style Options)
    108
  - Style Delete
    109
8 Mixer, Effects and Editing

110
- Structure of the Mixer
  110
- Volume and Pan
  111
  - Global Volume
    111
  - Muting Parts
    112
  - Keybrd Mixer (Volume of the Keyboard Parts)
    112
  - Style Mixer (Volume of the Arranger Parts)
    112
  - Panpot (Stereo Position)
    112
  - More Locks
    113
- Output Assign
  113
- Effects and Equalizer
  114
  - Applying Reverb, Chorus, or Delay to a Part
    114
  - Effects Settings
    115
  - Delay Types & Parameters
    117
  - Equalizer
    117
- Insertion Effect (M-FX)
  118
  - Using the Insertion Effect
    118
  - Selecting an M-FX Type
    121
- Variphrase and Audio in Effects
  122
- Sound Palette: Editing Keyboard Part Parameters
  123
9 Registrations - User Programs

125
10 Song Composer (the Basics)

130
- A few Remarks about Recording Songs
  130
  - Formatting a Disk
    130
- Song List: Searching Songs on Disk (Find)
  131
  - Play & Search: Finding Songs by Playing a few Notes
    131
- Song Playback Functions
  132
  - Lyrics Function
    132
  - Fast Forward, Rewind, and Reset
    133
  - Loop Playback (Markers)
    133
  - Changing the Song Tempo
    133
  - Soloing and Muting Parts
    133
  - Song/Keyboard-Part Balance
    134
  - Transpose
    135
- Song Chains
  135
  - Compiling or Editing a Song Chain
    135
  - Playing Back a Song Chain
    136
  - Chain Mode
    137
  - Deleting a Song Chain
    137
- Song Options
  137
  - P&S Input
    138
11 Song Composer (16-Track, Etc.)

139
- 16-Track Sequencer
  139
  - General Considerations
    139
  - Example 1: Recording a Track
    140
  - Saving Your Song
    143
  - Example 2: Recording a Song from Scratch
    143
- Editing 16-Track Songs
  145
- Style Converter
  153
- Edit Lyrics
  155
  - Utility' Functions for Edit Lyrics
    157
- Header Post Edit
  159
12 Programming User Styles

161
- Concept
  161
  - Selecting the User Style Composer
    163
- Recording User Styles from Scratch
  163
  - Selecting the Track, the Mode, the Type and the Division
    163
  - Record Mode
    164
  - Specifying the Key
    164
  - Quantize
    164
  - Tone Selection
    165
  - Time Signature
    165
  - Length: Specifying the Pattern Length
    165
  - Tempo
    167
  - Recording
    167
  - Audition Your Pattern and then Keep or Redo
    167
  - Saving Your Style to Disk
    168
  - Programming Other Parts and Divisions
    168
  - Muting Parts While Recording Others
    168
  - Remarks
    169
  - Copying Entire Styles Using Load (All Tracks)
    170
- Copying Existing Styles
  170
  - Copying Individual Style Tracks
    170
  - Editing on the Fly by Recording
    172
- Editing User Styles
  172
  - Edit Functions that Are Not Part of the User Style Edit Mode
    174
- User Style Edit Mode
  175
  - Erase
    176
  - Delete
    176
  - Insert
    177
  - Transpose
    177
  - Velocity
    177
  - Quantize
    178
  - Gate T
    178
  - Shift
    178
- User Style Micro Mode
  179
  - Change
    179
  - Insert
    180
  - Move MIX
    181
  - Copy MIX
    182
- User Style Utility
  182
  - Change
    182
  - Copy
    182
13 Miscellaneous

184
- Choosing Performance Functions (Controllers)
  184
  - D Beam
    184
  - Pitch Bender
    186
  - Modulation
    186
  - Touch Control (Ribbon)
    187
  - Aftertouch
    187
  - Sustain Switch (CC64)
    188
  - Foot Switch
    189
  - Foot Pedal (Expression)
    190
- Pad Parameters
  191
  - Foot Controller
    191
  - PAD Buttons
    192
- Global Parameters (for the Entire VA-76)
  193
  - Tone Recall
    193
  - Factory Resume
    194
  - Virtual Band Autorun
    194
14 MIDI

195
- MIDI in General
  195
  - MIDI Messages Used by the VA-76
    195
  - About MIDI Implementation Charts
    197
- Preparations for Using the MIDI Functions
  198
  - Transmitting MIDI Data (TX)
    198
  - The How-To's
    198
- Keyboard MIDI, Style MIDI, Song MIDI
  199
- Utilities MIDI
  201
  - MIDI Sync RX/TX
    201
  - Style TX Sync
    201
  - Song TX Sync
    201
  - Basic
    202
  - Style
    202
  - NTA: Note-To-Arranger
    203
  - MIDI Parameters (Param)
    203
- MIDI Sets
  205
15 Disk Functions

207
- Autoload
  207
- Disk Load (Loading Data from Disk)
  207
  - Load Style/Copy Style
    207
  - Load User Prg
    208
  - Load MIDI Set
    208
  - Load Phrase
    208
- Disk Save (Saving Data to Disk)
  209
- Save MIDI Set
  210
- Delete
  211
- Disk Utility
  211
  - Format
    211
  - Copy Functions
    212
  - Rename
    214
16 Specifications

216
17 M-FX Types & Controllable Parameters

217
18 Reference

220
- Tones
  220
- Drum Sets
  231
- Internal Music Styles
  249
- Chord Intelligence
  250
- MIDI Implementation Chart
  252
19 Index

253

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