Roland VA-76 owner manual Basic, Style RX Sync, Song RX Sync, On/Off, TX/RX Channel

VA-76 Owner’s Manual—MIDI

Style RX Sync, Song RX Sync

The Style RX Sync and Song RX Sync parameters are used to specify whether and how the Arranger or Composer should be synchronized to external sequencers or drum machines. The available options are:

Internal— The Arranger or Song Composer will fol- low its own internal tempo.

Auto— This is a function for remote control of Arran- ger/Song Composer playback (using a PK-5, for exam- ple). If the VA-76 receives a MIDI Start message (FA), it looks out for Clock messages. If those Clock mes- sages are not received (a PK-5, for instance, doesn’t send them), the VA-76 starts playback using its inter- nal tempo. If those Clock messages (F8) follow the Start message, the VA-76 uses the external tempo. You can, however, go on using the Arranger/Song Com- poser without MIDI Start/Clock messages, which is not possible when you select MIDI.

MIDI— The Arranger or Song can only be started or stopped with MIDI realtime messages (Start, Stop, Clock) coming from an external clock source.

Remote— The Arranger or Song Composer waits for a start message to start playback at its own tempo. As soon as it receives a stop message, playback will stop.

On/Off

Use these switches to enable (On) or disable (Off) the reception of these messages.

Basic

[FUNCTION MENU]→ [MIDI] field→ [Utilities MIDI] field→ [Basic] field

The Basic Channel is used for several things: to receive and transmit Program Change and Bank Select mes- sages for selecting User Programs, as well as for the reception and transmission of other kinds of messages that are not directly related to a specific MIDI channel but may affect the VA-76’s parts (such as the Part Switch function, for example). That doesn’t mean that the MIDI channel assigned to the Basic Channel func- tion is of no importance. Only, the messages received on that channel may also apply to other aspects of your VA-76.

TX/RX Channel

(1~16) Use these parameters to assign an RX (receive) or transmit (TX) channel to the Basic Channel func- tion. If you do not want the Basic Channel messages to be received (or transmitted), press the [ON/OFF] field so that it reads [OFF].

Filter

There are three functions for which you can specify whether (On) or not (Off) the corresponding MIDI messages should be received (or transmitted):

PartSwtc— Whenever you mute or un-mute a part on the Mixer pages, your VA-76 sends an NRPN message that describes your action. The VA-76 allows you to keep it from sending that message (or to respond to it whenever it is received from an external instrument). Filtering these messages on the TX side may be useful to keep your external sequencer from recording them

–or the receiving GS module from muting the part assigned to that channel.

UsrPrgPC— This parameter is used to filter the trans- mission (TX) or reception (RX) of program change and bank select messages relative to User Program selection.

MstVolum (RX only)— This parameter allows you to enable or disable the reception of Master Volume mes- sages (see page 199) that would change the volume of the entire VA-76.

Lyrics (TX only)— The Lyrics function of your VA-76 is MIDI message used to transmit the words (or lyrics) contained in a Standard MIDI File (as meta-text events). Playing back Standard MIDI Files that con- tain lyrics data causes the VA-76 to send these data on the Basic Channel – unless you set this filter to [OFF]. Select [ON] if you want to transmit Lyrics data to an LVC-1 Lyrics-to-Video Converter.

Style

[FUNCTION MENU]→ [MIDI] field→ [Utilities MIDI] field→ [Style] field

The Style Channel is a MIDI channel used for receiv- ing and transmitting Program Change and Bank Select messages allowing you to select Styles via MIDI, and volume messages that change the volume of a Style. Note that these two message types can only be filtered individually in the RX column (i.e. you can select whether or not to receive them).

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