VA-76 – Working with Styles on Disk

Find: locating Styles on a Zip disk

Working with Music Styles on Zip or floppy disk is convenient and fast, as you know by now.

The Zip disk supplied with the VA-76, however, con- tains 559 Music Styles. That is why there is also a pow- erful Find function for quickly locating the Style you need. Here is how to use this Find function:

1.Press the [STYLE] button or the [Style] field on the Master page.

2.Press the [Disk User] field.

(This procedure is the same as the one for using Disk User Styles.) The display now looks more or less as fol- lows:

If you take a close look at the display, you’ll see that there are four columns:

[Style Name]— This is the “internal” name of a Music Style. This name appears on the Master page, the Music Style selection page, etc. It is usually the “meaningful” name.

[Country]— Refers to the country where the Style in question is most likely to be used.

[Genre]— Tells you more about the musical genre (Waltz, Folk, Latin, etc.)

[File Name]— This is the name the Music Style has on disk and by which the VA-76 recognizes it (its “address”). If you change this name of a Music Style, the Disk Link function no longer finds the Style.

The information of these columns are supplied by a special file on the Zip disk that is called Database. Given that floppy disks cannot contain such a Data- base file, only the “Style Name” and “File Name” are available, while the Find function is not supported.

You can supply the above information for your own Styles – or change the information of the Styles on the supplied Zip disk (though the latter is probably not a very good idea).

Note: Music Styles you load from floppy disk and then save to Zip are not automatically modified to include this Database information. You need to program it yourself. See “Rename (Style Options)” on page 110.

Here are the available Database entries for Music Styles and Songs:

 

MUSIC STYLES

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Style Name

 

File Name

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Country

 

Genre

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SONGS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Song Name

 

File Name

 

 

 

 

 

 

Author

 

Genre

 

 

 

 

 

 

3.Press the [Style Name], [Country], [Genre], or [File Name] field, depending on the entry you want to base your search on.

To locate all Styles for a given genre (e.g. Standard), press the [Genre] field.

4.Press the [FIND] field.

The display now looks more or less as follows:

5.Select the way in which the VA-76 should search the Zip disk for the desired information:

Press the [GO To…] field if the VA-76 should search for all entries that start with the characters you enter (“BEA”, for example). Note that by “entry”, we mean the [Style Name], [File Name], etc. you selected on the previous page or here. Files that match the specified criteria will be displayed at the top of the display.

Press the [Find Only] field to have the VA-76 search the selected column for files that contain the supplied information. (This would allow you to also locate a file called Raggabeat if you entered “BEA”.)

The four fields below the [GO To…] and [Find Only] fields allow you to specify the entry that should be searched. The one that is displayed in white ([Style Name] in the above illustration) is the active field.

6.Use the keypad for entering the information to look out for. Use the [o][k] fields to move the cursor to the next/preceding position.

See also page 68. Use the [Delete] field to erase any character you don’t want the VA-76 to look for. Such “forgotten” characters can seriously affect the search result.

Note: It would be a good idea to enter at least 2 characters, possibly even 3 so as to narrow down your search to a “workable” size.

7.Press the [EXECUTE] field and look at the “Find:” field above the [Orchestrator] field.

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Roland VA-76 owner manual Find locating Styles on a Zip disk, Press the Find field, 109