VA-76 Owner’s ManualRegistrations – User Programs

3.Use the [A]/[B] and numeric fields to select the group, the bank and the memory number where you wish to write your settings.

One final step before writing your settings to a User Program is to assign a name to your settings. You only have to do this the first time you write (or “memo- rize”) new settings to a User Program. On the other hand, you can also name your User Program at a later stage and then write it again under the same address. If you do it now, you do not have to worry about renaming your User Program.

Use a name that somehow summarizes the memory’s contents. The name of the song you will use these set- tings for is probably the most explicit name you can think of.

4.See page 68 for how to enter the desired name. It is perfectly possible to program several User Pro- grams for one song. Selecting a User Program is a lot faster than calling up one of the VA-76’s functions, modifying the settings, etc., while playing. You could program one User Program for the first part of a song, another one for the bridge, and a third one for the closing section. Doing so allows you to “play” with the effect settings of the Keyboard and/or Arranger parts, or the VariPhrase part, for example.

5.Press the [EXECUTE] field.

The display confirms that the settings have been writ- ten to the selected memory and returns to the page of step (1) on page 127.

9.2 Selecting User Programs

Free Panel

For Song Composer playback, or whenever you want to start anew, you should always select the factory-set FreePanel User Program that contains the default set- tings of your VA-76.

The Free Panel settings can be changed and selected any time, i.e. even after selecting a “regular” User Pro- gram.

The Free Panel memory can be selected in two ways:

a)Simultaneously press User Program [DOWN] and [UP]; —or—

b)Press the [USER PROGRAM] button followed by the [Free Panel] field on the display page that appears then.

Note: Free Panel is read-only. You cannot write data to this memory.

Note: Unless you specified a User Program for the Startup function (see page 131), you can also load the Free Panel settings by powering off your VA-76 and turning it back on again.

Selecting a User Program (Group, Bank, Number)

Selecting User Programs works exactly like selecting Tones: you can work with the BANK/NUMBER sec- tion (after pressing [USER PROGRAM]), via the dis- play, or both. See pages 37 and 39 for details.

Instead of pressing the [USER PROGRAM] button, you can also press the [Usr Prg] field on the Master page.

There are two groups (A and B), with eight banks and eight memories each. You can select the group (A or

B)and the bank (1~8) a little ahead of the song part where you want the new settings to take effect. Only when you specify the User Program number will the corresponding settings be loaded.

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