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Selecting sounds for the right hand

Suppose you like the sound for the right hand but think that it is not really suited for the currently selected Music Style. Here are two easy ways of assign- ing a different sound to the right hand.

Let’s agree to use the word “Tones” for the VA-76’s sounds.

Note: In the following, we’ll assume that the Arranger is still active (the [ARRANGER] button should light).

Note: There is also the “classic” way of selecting Tones that we’ll skip here. See page 37 for details.

Super Tones

One of the VA-76’s user-friendly functions is the pos- sibility to “earmark” 5 (Factory) + 5 (User) Tones and to select them almost instantly. Here is how this works:

1.Stop Arranger playback by pressing the [START/ STOP] button (it goes dark).

2.Press a SUPER TONES [1]~[5] button.

MONO STEP ENCODE CAPTURE

GROUP

BACKGROUND

MELODIC

RHYTHMIC

USER

 

BACKGROUND 2

BACKGROUND 3

RHYTHMIC 2

USER 2

This selects the Tone that is currently assigned to the button you pressed (see the display page below). This Tone is selected for the Upper1 part.

Note: See “What are ‘parts’?” on page 35 for more informa- tion about Upper1. For now, it is enough to know that Upper1 is the part that is assigned to the right half of the keyboard (unless you selected the VariPhrase).

The display now looks as follows:

The above illustration shows the Factory Tones that can be assigned to the SUPER TONES [1] button.

There are two assignment sets: “FACTORY” and “USER”. See page 85 for details. “Factory” only means that the number of possible options is restricted to 40 Tones (rather than 3,646).

3.Play a few notes in the right half of the keyboard.

4.If you like, you can try out a different sound by pressing another field (e.g. “Vibraphone w”).

There is a second set called USER to which you can assign one of the 3,646 Tones to each SUPER TONES button. See page 85.

5.You may want to press the [START/STOP] button to find out whether the newly selected Tone is better suited for the Music Style.

Just for your reference: if you hold down a SUPER TONES button, the following display page appears:

In that case, press the [EXIT] field as we do not need this function here. See page 85 for details.

6.Press another SUPER TONES button.

Again, there are 8 possibilities, one of which is already selected. Press another displayed field to change the assignment for the active SUPER TONES button.

Note: The [CUSTOMIZE] field allows you to store a new assignment (after pressing another instrument field on the display). The Tone in question will then be selected next time you press the corresponding SUPER TONES button.

7.Stop Arranger playback by pressing the [START/ STOP] button (it goes dark).

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Roland VA-76 Selecting sounds for the right hand, Super Tones, Play a few notes in the right half of the keyboard