Roland VA-76 owner manual Saving a Midi Set, Selecting a Midi Set, Saving Midi Sets to disk

VA-76 – MIDI Sets

14.5 MIDI Sets

MIDI Sets are memories for the settings you make in MIDI mode. The VA-76 has eight MIDI Set memories on board that you can use to change your MIDI con- figuration. You can also save your MIDI Sets to disk and load them whenever necessary. Furthermore, you can link a MIDI Set to a User Program (see page 131), and specify which MIDI Set should be loaded each time you switch on the VA-76 (see below). If you need to reset some or all MIDI parameters to their default values, loading the Macro Settings (see page 200) may be a wiser choice than selecting a MIDI Set.

Saving a MIDI Set

1.Press the [FUNCTION MENU] button.

2.On the display page that appears now, press the [MIDI] field.

The display now looks more or less as follows:

3.Press the [Memorize] field.

4.Press the field that corresponds to the MIDI Set that should contain your MIDI settings ([1]~[8]).

5.Press the [EXECUTE] field.

The display confirms that the settings have been writ- ten to the selected memory and returns to the page of step (1) on page 127.

Selecting a MIDI Set

1.See steps (1) and (2) under “Saving a MIDI Set”.

2.Press a [1]~[8] field that corresponds to the MIDI Set you need.

You can also select MIDI Set [0] so as to work with the (temporary) setting in that memory. See also

page 200.

The Master page looks as follows when you work with a MIDI Set:

MIDI Set selection at power-on

Whenever you switch on the VA-76, it automatically selects MIDI Set 0. But maybe you prefer to be “opera- tional” right away. In that case, tell the VA-76 which MIDI Set it should recall whenever you switch it on:

1.Press the [FUNCTION MENU] button.

2.Press the [Global Parameter] field on the Function Menu.

3.Press the [Startup] field in the bottom row of the display.

4.Press the [Startup MIDI Set] field so that it is dis- played in white.

5.Use [i][m] or the [TEMPO/DATA] dial to select the MIDI Set to be recalled.

If you don’t want a MIDI Set to be recalled, select “Off”.

6.Press [EXIT] to return to the Master page.

Saving MIDI Sets to disk

After programming 8 MIDI Sets, you may find that you need a few more and that you have to make room for the new MIDI Sets. To do so without losing the previously saved MIDI Sets, you must save the “old” set to disk. Even if you do not program more than 8 MIDI Sets, it is a good idea to make a backup copy of your MIDI Sets in case someone else starts fiddling around with your settings.

1.Press the [FUNCTION MENU] button.

2.Press the [Disk] field.

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