VA-76 – Utilities MIDI

Style selection via MIDI

The MIDI address of a Music Style consists of three elements: a Program Change number, a CC00 num- ber, and a CC32 number. CC00 and CC32 are Bank Select messages. The values assigned to CC00 and CC32 define the Style, whereas the Program Change number defines the pattern (Intro, Ending, etc.). Sending only a Program Change number will select another pattern of the currently active Style. Only when the Program Change number is preceded by two values (for CC00 and CC32) will the VA-76 select another Music Style.

Note: Whenever you select another Style on your VA-76, it transmits a CC00-CC32-PC cluster on the Style channel.

Channel

(1~16) Allows you to assign a MIDI channel to the Style select feature. If you don’t want the Style Chan- nel messages to be received (or transmitted), press the [ON/OFF] field in question so that it reads [OFF].

Filter (RX only)

You can filter two types of messages:

StlVolum— Volume messages relating to the Music Styles. Select Off if the VA-76 must not receive them.

StylePC— Program Change and Bank Select messages for Style selection. Select Off if the VA-76 must not select other Styles or patterns in response to these incoming messages.

NTA: Note-to-Arranger

[FUNCTION MENU][MIDI] field[Utilities MIDI] field[NTA] field

NTA notes are only received from an external MIDI instrument. Whatever you play in the chord recogni- tion area of the keyboard to feed the Arranger is auto- matically converted to the corresponding MIDI note numbers. Unlike other arranger instruments, your VA-76 is blessed with the capability of sending the note numbers of all Arranger parts, so that you could use the internal or your own Styles to quickly record a song with band backing on an external sequencer. As every single note of the Music Style is recorded, there is no need to transmit the note messages used to feed the Arranger (the NTA notes).

1 Channel Rx/2 Channel Rx

(1~16) The NTA notes can be received on two MIDI channels, so that you could control the VA-76’s Arran- ger using a MIDIfied accordion or any other instru- ment capable of sending accompaniment data (or data used to control the accompaniment) on two channels (such as organs with bass pedals, for example). Use the [i][m] fields in the right column to set the desired value. Either channel can be switched off using its [ON/OFF] field.

Note: You cannot assign the same MIDI channel to 1 & 2 Channl Rx.

Shift

(–48~48) This parameter allows you to transpose the received note messages before sending them to the Arranger. The maximum possible transposition is four octaves up (48) or down (–48), each step representing a semitone.

1 Ch Limit, 2 Ch Limit (C-1~G9)

High and Low allow you to set the note range to be received. If not all note messages on the selected MIDI channel should be received by the NTA “part”, set the range to the desired values.

Note: The Low Limit cannot be set to a higher value than the High Limit (and vice versa).

Note: Some instruments start at C-2 and end at G8 (instead of C-1 and G9). You may have to “add an octave” to the value you see on the screen of your computer or exter- nal sequencer.

MIDI parameters (Param)

[FUNCTION MENU][MIDI] field[Utilities MIDI] field[Param] field

This page contains several parameters that are not related to one other (the other MIDI pages always concentrate on one aspect).

Tx Octave

(Absolute, Relative) The TX Octave parameter can be set to Absolute or Relative. It applies to Tone selec- tion. You may have noticed that whenever you assign a bass sound to the Upper1 part in SPLIT mode, the notes are transposed in such a way that you can play a meaningful bass line using the Upper1 part. Relative means that this internal (and automatic) transposition is translated into note numbers, so that playing a C4 (note number 60) may actually result in note number

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Roland VA-76 owner manual NTA Note-to-Arranger, Midi parameters Param