Roland VA-76 owner manual Mixer, effects and editing, Structure of the Mixer pages, 112

VA-76 Owner’s Manual—Mixer, effects and editing

8. Mixer, effects and editing

The VA-76 also allows you to set the volume, the ste- reo position and the amount of effect the parts should use. Of course, you can also program the effects them- selves. All of these parameters can be found on the Mixer pages.

There are three ways to select the VA-76’s Mixer. The first is the most straightforward one, the others require some additional operations.

a)Press the [Mixer] field on the Master page.

b)Press the [EFFECTS] button, followed by the [Key- brd Mixer], [Style Mixer], or [Global Volume] field.

c)Press and hold the M-FX [ON/OFF] button, fol- lowed by the [Keybrd Mixer], [Style Mixer], or [Glo- bal Volume] field.

8.1 Structure of the Mixer pages

The main pages are structured in a very logical way: The [Keybrd Mixer] field provides access to the VA-76’s Keyboard parts: VariPhrase, Upper1, Upper2, Lower1, Lower2, M.Bass, MEL INT, M.Drums and the Audio In part.

The [Style Mixer] field allows you to set various parameters of the Arranger (or “Style”) parts: A.Drums, A.Bass, Accomp 1~6.

The [Global Volume] field allows you to set the vol- ume of several part groups in one go. On a mixing console, these sliders would be called the bus faders.

In fact, the Mixer is very similar to a mixing console, because you can not only set the volume of the above parts, but also their stereo position (PanPot) and the amount of effect they should use. In other words: this is where you can “mix” the parts so as to create a con- vincing sound image.

For your convenience, you can do the mixing accord- ing to two approaches:

(1) Via sliders on so-called palette pages

In this case, you can edit the selected parameter (vol- ume, pan, effect send) for several parts at once. If the desired part is not displayed, use the [o][k] fields to select another group of Keyboard or Style parts. A typ- ical palette page looks like this:

Means that you are on a palette page

[Single Part] and [PALETTE] are only available on the pages you select via these fields

Press the [Palette] field (if available) so select the pal- ette page. (If the [Single Part] field in the upper left corner is displayed, you are on a palette page.)

On such palette pages, you need to proceed as follows:

1.Select one of the VA-76’s Mixer pages (see a~c).

2.Select the Mixer group that contains the part whose settings you want to change by pressing the [Keybrd Mixer] or [Style Mixer] field.

3.If the part you want to change is not displayed, use the [o][k] fields to call up another group of four parts/sliders.

4.Select the desired parameter by pressing the [Delay], [Chorus], [Reverb], [PanPot] or [Volume] field.

Note: The Delay effect is not available for the A.Drums, M.Drums, VariPhrase, and Audio In parts.

5.Edit the selected parameter for one or several parts in one of the following ways:

a)Use the on-screen sliders —or—

b)Press the name field (above the sliders) of the part whose setting you wish to change and use the [TEMPO/DATA] dial, or the [DATA] button/Numeric Entry pad (see page 49).

112