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If Song Composer playback is stopped, selecting the Master page would switch off the Song Composer mode and take you back to Arranger mode where you can use the automatic accompaniment function.

Minus One playback

Your VA-76 allows you to mute any given part of the song you are currently playing back. You could use this feature to mute the solo part on disk so that you can play it yourself. This is called Minus One playback (because one part of the original song is muted).

You can solo whichever part you like, and even mute several parts simultaneously.

All Keyboard parts remain active. In other words, you are free to use the Upper1/2, VariPhrase, Lower1/2, and M.Bass parts in whichever split or layer combina- tion (see page 35) you like. The MDR part is also avail- able but selecting this part means that other Keyboard parts are temporarily deactivated.

Note: Whenever you start playing back a new song or return to the beginning of the current song (by pressing the [STOP √] field), all Keyboard parts, except Upper1, are be switched off and the VA-76 selects the Whole Keyboard mode. This is not the case however, if you select a User Pro- gram memory.

Note: When playing back one of your songs in which you used the VariPhrase part and one of your own phrases (User memory), you must load the phrase(s) in question before you start playback. See page 69.

1.Insert the supplied Zip™ disk into the appropriate drive (the one below the keyboard).

You can also use any other Zip or floppy disk, of course. It must contain a Standard MIDI File, though.

2.If necessary, press the [START/STOP] button to stop Arranger playback.

3.Press the [SONG COMPOSER] button.

4.See steps (4)~(8) above for how to select the desired song on disk.

It would be a good idea to start playback and to stop it after a few measures.

Note: If the field in the upper left corner on the Master page reads [Song], you can press it to jump to the page where you can select a Standard MIDI File.

5.On the Song Composer page, press the [Minus One] field.

The display now looks as follows:

The numbers 1~16 represent the tracks of the selected Standard MIDI File. Standard MIDI Files can contain up to 16 different parts that each receive on a different MIDI channel.

The [ON]/[OFF] fields next to the numbers indicate whether the tracks in question will be played back or not. No field means that the track in question contains no data.

6.Press the [ON] field next to track/channel [4]. In most Standard MIDI Files, the melody part is assigned to track/channel 4. Pressing this field (to make it read [OFF]) is thus a good guess. This channel corresponds to the VA-76’s UP1 part.

Note: The on/off status of the tracks can be written to a User Program (see page 127).

7.Select a Tone for the Upper1 (UP1) part.

See “Super Tones” on page 28 or “Selecting Tones for the Keyboard parts” on page 37. There is a function that allows you to link Tone selection for the Upper1 part to the parameter settings of the selected song so that your melody will sound exactly like the original part. See below.

8.Press the [STOP ] field twice to return to the beginning of the song.

9.Press the [PLAY ®] field to start playback, and play along to the Standard MIDI File.

Feel free to use the performance functions (see

page 51). If necessary, use the [TEMPO/DATA] dial or the [TEMPO/TAP] button to change the tempo.

10.Press the [STOP ] field to stop playback.

11.Press the [oBack] field to return to the Song

Composer page.

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Roland VA-76 owner manual Minus One playback, On the Song Composer page, press the Minus One field