Roland VA-76 owner manual 13.2 FC-7 & Pad parameters, FX Value 1/2, Formant Up/Down, 193

VA-76 – FC-7 & Pad parameters

Note: It is perfectly possible to set the Up value to “127” and the Down value to “0”, so that the selected part only sounds when the Expression pedal is up (closed).

The Expression function can also be used for some clever effects. Instead of alternating between Upper1 and Upper2 by varying your velocity (see page 91), which requires a considerable amount of “striking pre- cision”, you could invert Upper2’s response to the expression pedal, so that Upper1 does not sound when Upper2 does, and vice versa.

M-FX Value 1/2

If you select M-Value 1 or M-Value 2, the foot pedal performs the same function as the corresponding M-FX slider (see page 120) with the additional advan- tage that you can narrow down the setting range (and use e.g. 40~80 rather than 0~127). These parameters apply to all Keyboard parts that use the Insertion effect. In that case, the display looks like this:

Up/Down (0~127)— Press the [Up] or [Down] field and use the slider, the [TEMPO/DATA] dial, or the [DATA] button/Numeric Entry pad to set the effect parameter value to be obtained when the expression pedal is depressed (Down) or closed (Up).

Note: You do not need to specify “0” for the Up position. Likewise, you do not need to specify “127” as maximum value.

Formant Up/Down

If you select Formant Up or Formant Down, the expression pedal performs the same function as the [Formant] slider on the “Controllers/VariPhrase” page (see page 49).

[Up] and [Down] fields: see above.

13.2 FC-7 & Pad parameters

The display page for the following two parameters can be selected in two ways:

1.Press and hold a PAD button for at least one sec- ond.

The VA-76 jumps to the following display page:

2.Or proceed as follows:

a)Press the [FUNCTION MENU] button.

b)Press the [FC-7 and PAD] field in the lower left cor- ner to jump to the display page of the same name (see above).

FC-7 Foot Controller

As stated earlier, you can connect an optional FC-7 Foot Controller to the FC7 PEDAL socket. The VA-76 allows you to assign the desired function to each of the seven pedals (foot switches).

Note: The assigned functions apply to the VA-76 as a whole and are not written to individual User Programs. They can, however, be saved to disk (along with all User Programs) using “Save User Program Set” on page 211.

1.Jump to the FC-7 and PAD display page (see above).

2.In the upper half, press the pedal field that is assigned to the footswitch you wish to assign another function to.

To change the assignment of the second pedal from the right, press the last-but-one pedal field.

3.Use the [TEMPO/DATA] dial to select the desired function:

Start/Stop, Intro, Basic/Advanced, Fill To Variation, Fill To Original, Original/Variation, Ending— These are the default functions of the FC-7’s footswitches (1~7). They duplicate the functions of the Arranger control buttons.

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