Roland VA-76 owner manual Saving your Style to disk, Programming other parts and divisions

VA-76 Owner’s Manual—Programming User Styles

Saving your Style to disk

If you are serious about programming your own Styles, make it a habit to save them as frequently as possible. After all, if someone decided to turn off your VA-76 now, you would lose everything you have pro- grammed so far.

That disk can also serve as backup whenever you erase or change something you actually wanted to keep.

Naming your User Style

1.Press the [Utility] field in the bottom row and the [Name] field in the left column.

Before saving a Style to disk, you should name it. Choose a name that tells you something about the nature of the Style. The name you enter here will be displayed on the Master page every time you select this Style (via Disk Link, if assigned, or as “Disk User Style”).

2.Enter the name that should be displayed whenever you select this Style. See page 68 for the available options.

Saving your Style

3.Press the [Save] field to jump to the Save Style page:

4.Press the [ZIP] or [FLOPPY] field to select the drive you wish to use for saving your User Style.

5.Press the [Name] field.

You have just specified the Style name, so there is no need to do so on this page.

6.Press the [File Name] field and enter the name under which your User Style should be saved.

See page 109 for the difference between Style and File Names.

Note: The [A/a] field is not displayed when you select the [File Name] field. That is because the File Name conforms to the MS-DOS standard and only allows for (eight) upper- case characters.

7.Insert a floppy or Zip disk into the desired drive and press [EXECUTE] to save your Style to disk. Remember that your VA-76 is multitasking, so that you can leave this page as soon as the VA-76 starts sav- ing the Style to disk:

8.Press [oBack] to return to the User Style Com- poser.

9.Press [Rec] (below) and [Master] (left column) to the User Style Master page.

Programming other parts and divisions

You can now record the second part – probably the bass. If you’d like to do the guided tour again, go back to page 165. Do not forget to set the key for the bass part (see page 166).

You probably know how to record other parts (Accomp1~Accomp6), so we’ll leave you to it (see “Recording User Styles from scratch” on page 165).

Once the first division is finished, you can record other divisions. Use the clone function (see page 166) to record several patterns in one go.

Do not forget to record the Fills and the Intro(s)/End- ing(s) to complete your User Style.

Note: The ABass part is monophonic. You will not be able to program two-note patterns.

Muting parts while recording others

After programming a few tracks, you may find that certain tracks tend to confuse you. Playing a steady organ part while listening to a previously recorded syncopated part may indeed be difficult. That is why the VA-76 allows you to mute those parts that you do not want to hear during recording.

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