VA-76 – Tone clinic

Note: Press the Variation field without a number (“Organ 1” in our example) to preset the Capital Tone as “Preferred Tone”.

4.Press the [Customize] field to store this Variation as your new favorite.

The display responds with:

This means that your selection has been stored. After a brief interval, the display returns to the Group/Bank/ Number page.

5.Repeat this operation for all other Tone addresses you wish to assign a different preferred Tone to.

6.Press the [EXIT] field to return to the Master page. Note: These “Preferred Tone” settings will be saved to disk whenever you use the Save User Program Set function. See page 211 for details.

Selecting different Tone Maps

As you know, the VA-76 comes with 3,646 Tones, which is an impressive number, especially when it comes to selecting a Tone.

That is why there are not only groups (A, B), banks (1~8), numbers (1~8), and Variations (varying num- ber), but also “Tone Maps”.

Tone Maps emulate the behavior of a given tone gen- erator. By selecting Tone Map “1”, for example, you tell the VA-76 to use the SC-55 Tones rather than the brand-new Tones especially developed for this V- Arranger Keyboard.

Note: This Tone Map system can also be used for editing Standard MIDI Files. See “Change” on page 152.

There are four Tone Maps that correspond to the fol- lowing instrument models:

Tone Map

Correspondence

 

 

1

The Tones found on the E-86 and SC-55 Sound

Canvas.

 

 

 

2

The Tones found on the G-800, RA-800, and the

SC-88 Sound Canvas.

 

 

 

3

The Tones found on the G-1000, EM-2000 and

SC-88 Pro Sound Canvas.

 

 

 

 

New Tones especially developed for the VA-76,

4VA-7, VA-5 and VA-3; some of them can also be found on the SC-8850.

Tone Maps 1~3 ensure perfect compatibility with older Music Styles and Standard MIDI Files. Besides, these Maps contain some “classic” sounds you wouldn’t want to miss.

Tone Map 4 (the brand-new sounds) contains 1,616 new Tones with the best material ever released by Roland.

Here’s how to select the desired Tone Map:

1. On the Tone selection page, press the [Map] field.

Press to open the Map selection page

The display now looks as follows:

The “CC32” messages refer to a MIDI control change that allows you to select the Maps from an external MIDI sequencer or any other MIDI instrument capa- ble of sending these messages.

This information is also important for you when you browse through the Tone Lists on page 222 in search of a given Tone. Always look at what it says behind the “CC32=”. That number (1~4) tells you which Tone Map to select.

2.Press the [Tone Map] field you wish to select. This means that all Tones you select from now on belong to that Tone Map until you change this setting again.

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Roland VA-76 owner manual Selecting different Tone Maps, On the Tone selection page, press the Map field