VA-76 Owner’s ManualSong Composer (the basics)

2.On the Song Composer page (see above), press the [Minus One] field.

The display now looks more or less as follows:

The [1]~[16] entries refers to the 16 MIDI channels of the currently selected Standard MIDI File. The [ON] and [OFF] switches are only displayed for tracks that contain data. Careful, though: when you start play- back of a newly loaded song, the [ON]/[OFF] indica- tions are not always reliable. So please first start playback of the first 15 measures, reset ([STOP √]) and then solo the part(s) you need. This also possible during playback.

3.Press the [Solo] field (so that it is displayed in white). At first, this will solo track 4.

4.Now press the [OFF] field of the part you want to listen to in isolation (so that it reads [ON]).

To “un-solo” track 4, press its [ON] field, so that it reads [OFF]

It also possible to solo several tracks, which means that you only hear the track/MIDI channels whose [ON/ OFF] field reads [ON].

5.Press the [Solo] field again to switch off the solo function.

Note: The Solo settings are never written to a User Pro- gram. Use the mute facility for switching off the tracks that should be switched off when you select the User Program in question.

Muting tracks/MIDI channels

On this page (and while the [Solo] field is displayed in blue) you can also mute tracks/MIDI channels. Muted Song parts do not sound during playback. This is thus the opposite of the Solo function: here, you need to select the tracks/MIDI channels you don’t want to hear.

1.Select the above display page (see “Soloing parts”).

2.Press the [ON] field of the track you wish to mute so that it reads [OFF].

Again, you can mute several tracks simultaneously. By muting 15 tracks/MIDI channels, you effectively do the same as when you press the [Solo] field and select the track you wish to solo (except that you would then have to press 15 [ON] fields, which is not very conve- nient).

Note: The Solo status takes precedence over the Mute status. To mute a soloed part, you must turn off the Solo function.

3.Press the [oBack] field to return to the Song Com- poser page, or go on to the next section.

Note: The Mute settings can be written to a User Program (see page 127) so be sure to only mute the tracks you do not want to be active every time you select the User Program in question.

Note: See also “Header Post Edit” on page 161 for some interesting parameters you can change and save along with the song itself, as well as “In-depth editing of a 16-track song” on page 148.

Using the metronome

See page 66.

Song/Keyboard-part balance

Use the [BALANCE] knob on the front panel to mod- ify the volume balance between the Standard MIDI File and the Keyboard parts. Turn it to the left to increase the Standard MIDI File’s volume (ACCOMP), and to the right to increase the Keyboard part volume (KEYBOARD).

VOLUMEM-FX

CONTROLLERS EFFECTS

MELODY

INTELL

MIN

MAX

MIN

MAX

M-VALUE

BALANCE

KEYBOARD MODE

ON/OFF

SYNC

OTHER

ARRANGER

PIANO

ACCOMP KEYBOARD

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Roland VA-76 owner manual Using the metronome, Song/Keyboard-part balance, Muting tracks/MIDI channels, 136