VA-76 – Adding a melody to the accompaniment

3.5Adding a melody to the accompaniment

If you set up the VA-76 using the Easy Routing func- tion, you not only select a Music Style but also a sound for your right hand. Let’s add a live melody to the accompaniment.

1.Press the [ORIGINAL] or [VARIATION] button and play a chord in the left half of the keyboard. It doesn’t matter which of these two patterns you select as long as it keeps playing all the time. Also note that you could play only one note in the left half, because the Intelligent function is currently on.

2.Press the [START/STOP] button to start Arranger playback.

3.Play a melody in the right half of the keyboard.

4.While doing so, try to play the chords (or notes) that match the melody you are playing.

Note: There is no need to hold down the chord notes all the time, because the Arranger does this automatically. Briefly pressing the appropriate left-hand notes is thus enough. The function that takes care of this is called “ARR Hold” (see page 101).

Changing the tempo

If the Arranger is too fast (or too slow), here is how to change the Music Style tempo:

1.If the [TEMPO/TAP] button does not light, press it.

 

 

STYLE

 

TONE

DATA

TEMPO/TAP

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BANK

 

GROUP A

PIANO

CHR PERC

ORGAN

GUITAR

BASS

 

C

1

2

3

4

5

 

B

REED

PIPE

SYN LEAD SYN PAD

SYN SFX

 

PART

 

 

 

NUMBER

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1

2

3

4

5

TEMPO

DATA

2.Use the [TEMPO/DATA] dial to set the desired tempo value.

The new tempo is displayed in the upper right corner of the display:

You can also press the [TEMPO/TAP] button several times in the rhythm of the desired tempo. This is called the Tap Tempo function. It sets the tempo based on the speed at which you press the button.

To quickly return to the default tempo, do the follow- ing:

3.Press and hold the [TEMPO/TAP] button. The display now looks as follows:

4.On this page, press the [Default Tempo] field. See page 104 for the remaining tempo options.

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

Balance: if the melody is too soft or too loud

You may find that the melody sound is too soft, or too loud, with respect to the Music Style accompaniment. In that case…

Use the [BALANCE] knob to correct the volume bal- ance between the accompaniment and your solo play- ing.

VOLUMEM-FX

CONTROLLERS EFFECTS

MELODY

INTELL

MIN

MAX

MIN

MAX

M-VALUE

BALANCE

KEYBOARD MODE

ON/OFF

SYNC

OTHER

ARRANGER

PIANO

ACCOMP KEYBOARD

Turn it towards the left (ACCOMP) if you can’t hear the accompaniment. Turn it towards the right if the melody is too soft.

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Roland VA-76 Adding a melody to the accompaniment, Changing the tempo, Balance if the melody is too soft or too loud