Roland VA-76 owner manual Tone clinic, Selecting Tones for the Keyboard parts

VA-76 – Tone clinic

Active parts are displayed in white fields (and their button lights, see below), while switched-off parts are displayed in blue.

5.If necessary, change the split point. See “Split point in Arranger mode” on page 35.

This split point indeed applies both to the chord rec- ognition area of the Arranger and the SPLIT keyboard mode.

Note: If you like, you can activate a Hold function for the LW1/2 parts. That way, briefly pressing the notes to be played by the LW1/2 parts is enough. The Arranger has a similar function (called ARR Hold). See also “LWR Hold” on page 90.

Note: If none of the part fields is displayed in white (and if non of the KEYBOARD PARTS buttons lights), the notes you play on the keyboard will not be audible. (It would, however, be possible to go on controlling the Arranger.)

Note: Your settings can be written to a User Program and recalled at a later stage. See page 127.

4.2 Tone clinic

Selecting Tones for the Keyboard parts

On page 28 we already mentioned the SUPER TONES buttons that can be used for selecting one of 40 Tones for the UP1 part, and the One Touch function that prepares 4 different Tones for both the UP1 and UP2 parts. See also “One Touch” on page 99.

Let us now have a look at the “classic” way of selecting Tones. This selection method is available for all Key- board parts.

In fact, there are two possibilities that can be used indiscriminately at any stage, except for selecting a Variation (only via the display). For the sake of clarity, however, we shall treat them as separate items.

Tone selection via the front panel

Note: All button actions are also reflected by the display. See “Tone selection via the display” on page 39 for the informa- tion that appears on-screen.

1.Tell the VA-76 that you wish to select a Tone (sound): press the [TONE] button.

The VA-76 uses a nifty color coding system. As soon as you press the [TONE] button, its indicator as well as the BANK and NUMBER buttons of the currently selected Tone light in red. The color for Music Style selection (see page 59) is green, while orange is used for selecting User Programs.

The display now looks as follows:

The name next to the [A]/[B] fields tells you which Keyboard part is currently active for Tone selection:

You can select a Tone for Upper1 (UP1).

Note: The numbers in the upper right corner of the display indicate the MIDI address of the selected Tone (“Organ 1”).

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