Roland VA-76 owner manual If you selected ALL Demo

VA-76 Owner’s Manual—Setting up and demo songs

Once the internal circuit tests have been completed, the display looks as follows:

This page will be displayed automatically whenever you leave the VA-76 unattended for more than five minutes.

Note: You can prevent the VA-76 from automatically select- ing this display page at start-up, or from returning to it at power-on. See page 195 for details.

Note: If you want to select this page at a later stage (after playing the VA-76), press the [VIRTUAL BAND] button.

If you like, you can press a language field. That way, all demo song messages will be displayed in your lan- guage (if supported).

Note: Depending on the country where you bought the VA-76, other language options than the above may be avail- able.

5.Press the [DEMO] field. The display now looks as follows:

Note: If you selected another language, the question is dis- played in that language. All other functions are the same, however.

6.Slightly increase the setting of the [VOLUME] knob. You may have to adjust it once demo song play- back is up and running.

7.Insert the supplied Zip disk into the drive.

The demo songs do not reside in the VA-76’s internal memory but on the supplied Zip. If you do not insert that disk before proceeding, the following message is displayed:

8.Press a “DEMO” field to select the demo songs you want to listen to:

ALL DEMO— The VA-76 plays back all of the follow- ing demo songs.

TONE DEMO— The VA-76 plays back the demon- stration songs that illustrate the variety and realism of its sounds.

STYLE DEMO— The VA-76 plays back the demo songs that illustrate the quality of its automatic accompaniments (called “Music Styles”).

VariPhrase DEMO— Press this field to listen to the exciting possibilities of the VA-76’s VariPhrase proces- sor.

What happens now depends on the selected demo option:

If you selected ALL DEMO

•Playback starts automatically. If you don’t want to wait until the end of the current song, press [SKIP NEXT ®®]. This takes you to the beginning of the next demo song.

•Press the [STOP ■] field to stop demo song playback.

•You can continue playback from the beginning of the current or next song (after pressing the

[SKIP NEXT ®®] field) by pressing [PLAY ®].

•Press the [oBACK] field to return to the demo song selection page.

•Press [EXIT] to leave the Virtual Band mode and to jump to the Master page (see page 24).

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