Roland VA-76 VariPhrase section, Super Tones buttons, Data button, TEMPO/TAP button, Part button

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VA-76 Owner’s Manual—Panel descriptions

MONO STEP ENCODE CAPTURE

GROUP	BACKGROUND	MELODIC	RHYTHMIC	USER
	BACKGROUND 2	BACKGROUND 3	RHYTHMIC 2	USER 2

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STYLE TONE USER PROGRAM

DATA	TEMPO/TAP
U	V
						BANK
	GROUP	A	PIANO	CHR PERC	ORGAN	GUITAR	BASS	ORCHESTRA ENSEMBLE		BRASS
		C	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
	Z	B	REED	PIPE	SYN LEAD SYN PAD		SYN SFX	ETHNIC	PERCUSSIVE	SFX
	PART					NUMBER
			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
TEMPO
DATA X	Y

SVariPhrase section

These buttons provide access to the revolutionary VariPhrase function of your VA-76.

TSUPER TONES buttons

Use these buttons to select one of the five so-called “Super Tones”. These are sounds for the Upper 1 part you may want to use more often than others. There are two sets of five that can both be edited: the FACTORY and the USER group. You can thus prepare 10 favorite Tones. See page 40 for details.

UDATA button

When this button lights (which is sometimes the case every time you select an adjustable parameter), you can press it to call up an on-screen 10-key pad. Use this pad for entering the desired parameter value.

VTEMPO/TAP button

If the [DATA] button lights, press this button (so that it lights) whenever you need to change the Style or Song tempo. Then use the [TEMPO/DATA] dial to set the desired value. Press and hold this button to have access to various tempo options. You can also press it rhythmically to enter the tempo like musicians do: by tapping it.

WSTYLE, TONE and USER PROGRAM buttons

These buttons allow you to specify the function of the BANK and NUMBER buttons. They are color-coded for easy identification: [STYLE]= green, [TONE]= red, [USER PROGRAM]= orange. These colors are reflected by the active BANK/NUMBER buttons.

XTEMPO/DATA dial

The function of this dial depends on the status of the [TEMPO/TAP] and [DATA] buttons. If the [TEMPO/ TAP] button lights, the dial can be used to set the desired tempo. If the [DATA] button lights, the dial can be used for setting the value of the currently selected parameter.

YPART button

Hold down this button while pressing a NUMBER button to specify a Keyboard part for Tone selection and to call up the Part Select page (where the specified part is already selected). The assignments are as fol- lows:

PART + NUMBER [1]	Upper 1
PART + NUMBER [2]	Upper 2
PART + NUMBER [3]	Manual Drums
PART + NUMBER [4]	-– – –
PART + NUMBER [5]	Melody Intelligence
PART + NUMBER [6]	Lower1
PART + NUMBER [7]	Lower2
PART + NUMBER [8]	Manual Bass

Press and hold it for a second (all GROUP/BANK/ STYLE/TONE/USER PROGRAM indicators except the NUMBER button of the currently selected part go off). Then release it to select the PART SELECT page.

ZGROUP, BANK, NUMBER buttons

This section allows you to select the desired Music Style, Tone, or User Program memory.

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