VA-76 – Recording User Styles from scratch

12.2Recording User Styles from scratch

Note: The following sections also contain comments on what we are doing and possible options. If all you want to do is program a Style, just read everything that appears in bold. You can come back to the related explanations when- ever there is something you do not understand.

Important remark

User Style recording and editing is carried out in the VA-76’s Style RAM memory (Disk User). Whenever you leave the User Style mode after recording or editing a Style (by pressing [EXIT]), the display will warn you that you need to save your Style to disk. If you haven’t yet done so, you should take advantage of this security system.

Press the [YES] field to save your Style to disk (see page 170 for details), or [NO] if you think that is not necessary.

Selecting the User Style Composer

1.Press the [FUNCTION MENU] button.

2.On the display page that appears now, press the [User Style Composer] field.

The display now looks more or less as follows:

Note: If the above parameters are not visible, press the [Options] field.

Clearing the Disk User memory (Delete)

The first thing we need to do is clear the VA-76’s Style RAM memory. That memory is indeed also used when you select a Disk Link, or a Disk User Style. In other words: this memory will not be empty when you select the User Style Composer. On the other hand, this “RAM sharing” system also allows you to prepare the Style you want to edit in no time: all you need to do is select it while in Arranger mode, then activate the User Style Composer.

To record a new User Style, however, you must first clear the Style RAM memory:

3.Press the [Utility] field in the bottom row.

4.Press the [Delete] field in the left column.

5.Press the [EXECUTE] field to delete the Style that is currently in the Disk User memory.

Preparations

6.Press the [Rec] field in the bottom row to jump to the User Style Composer Master page.

7.If necessary, press the [Master] field to make the display look like in step (2).

Selecting the track, the Mode, the Type and the Division

To keep things easy, let’s start with the drums of the Basic/Original pattern.

8.Press the [Track] field and use the [TEMPO/DATA] dial to select the track you wish to record.

Select “ADrums”. Now select a pattern. Start with the Basic/Original division (see the following steps):

9.Press the [Division] field and use the [TEMPO/ DATA] dial to select “Original”.

During Arranger playback (when you start using your User Style like a “regular” Style), the Basic and Advanced levels can be selected using the Orchestra- tor function. See page 62.

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Roland VA-76 owner manual Recording User Styles from scratch, Selecting the User Style Composer