VA-76 – Selecting Tones for the Arranger parts

7.7Selecting Tones for the Arranger parts

You can select other Tones for the Arranger parts of the currently selected Music Style. Assigning another Drum Set to the A. Drums part, for instance, may already dramatically change the Music Style’s charac- ter. Likewise, replacing the acoustic piano by an elec- tric one is an easy way of adapting a preset Music Style to your specific needs.

Tone selection for the Arranger parts is very similar to the procedure for the Keyboard parts. If in doubt, please see “Selecting Tones for the Keyboard parts” on page 37.

1.On the Master page, press the [Tone] field. You can also press the [TONE] button in the BANK/NUM- BER section.

The display now looks more or less as follows:

2.Press the [Part] field to select the following page:

3.Press the [Style Part] field to select the following page:

4.Press one of the part fields [ADR]~[AC6] to select the part you wish to assign another Tone to.

[ADR] refers to the Accompaniment Drums part, [ABS] to the Accompaniment Bass part, and [AC1]~ [AC6] to the melodic accompaniment parts.

5.Use the BANK/NUMBER buttons to select a Tone for the active Arranger part (the one that is displayed in white).

Alternatively, you can also press the [Tone] field and work via the display. See also “Selecting different Tone Maps” on page 41 if you can’t seem to find the Tone you need in the current Map. See the Tone Lists on page 222 for locating the desired Tone.

About the lock

It is up to you to decide whether the VA-76 should remember which Tones you assigned to the Arranger parts. If you do not modify the setting of the lock, you will notice that, after a while, the Music Style returns to the original, preset, Tones.

Thanks to the lock, however, you can ensure that the preset Tone selection will be overridden by your own choices.

Lock closedThe Tone assignment contained in the Music Style will be recalled at the beginning of a loop. This may be after 2, 4, or even 8 measures. (There are also locks for the volume, Reverb, Chorus, etc. parameters.)

Lock open — The Arranger part in question does

not change at the beginning of the loop. Selecting this option is probably wiser when you are planning to write your settings to a User Program (see page 127) and recall them at a later stage. Otherwise, you might just as well not bother with selecting other Tones for the Arranger parts.

This is an intelligent function: as soon as you select another Tone (or Drum Set), the lock is automatically opened.

Note: See also “More locks” on page 115.

6.Press [EXIT] to return to the Master page.

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