Roland VA-76 owner manual Setting the Roll resolution speed, Press the MDR field

VA-76 – Tone clinic

The display now changes to:

This page means that the WHOLE Keyboard Mode is currently selected (see page 35). If you don’t see this page, press the [KEYBOARD MODE] field in the upper right corner.

2.Press the [SPLIT] or the [WHOLE] field, depend- ing on whether you wish to assign the MDR part to the entire keyboard (WHOLE), or just the right half (SPLIT).

If you press [SPLIT], the display now looks more or less as follows:

SPLIT would be a good choice if you wanted to con- trol the Arranger with your left hand, while adding a percussion solo with your right.

If you work in SPLIT mode and need to play the Kick, Snare, HiHat, etc. sounds (assigned to the keys that cannot be triggered by the MDR part), consider using the Octave function (see page 54).

3.Press the [MDR] field.

All part fields (WHOLE mode), or all part fields to the right of the dividing line (SPLIT) turn blue (and the KEYBOARD PARTS buttons go dark), while the [MDR] field turns white. That is because you cannot use both the MDR part and UP1, UP2, etc. This wouldn’t make sense: playing a drum part often means that you have to play semitone intervals (e.g. C4 → C#4, etc.), while playing a melody would lead to sur- prising percussion or drum lines if the MDR was also on.

4.Play a few notes on the keyboard to try out the drum sounds.

You may also want to try out the following:

Roll

The Roll function allows you to play perfect drum rolls whose tempo is synchronized with the Arranger or a Composer Song.

1.On the above display page (in SPLIT or WHOLE mode), press the [Options] field.

If you lost the above display page, first press the [OTHER] button on the front panel.

2.Press the [MDrums Roll] field (left column, central field).

The display now looks as follows:

3.Press the indicated [ON/OFF] field so that it reads “ON” and is displayed in white.

4.Again play a note.

The drum sound will now be played as a roll. Rolls are always played in time with the tempo displayed on the Master page. Try this out by changing the tempo using the [TEMPO/DATA] dial.

Using the Modulation lever (press the lever away from you), you can modify the volume of the drum roll. Try this out now.

Setting the Roll resolution (speed)

You can specify the number of notes per beat for the Roll function.

5.Press another note value field than the one that is currently active.

There are six options that have the following meaning:

Symbol	Meaning
1/16	Sixteenth notes.
1/32	Thirty-second notes (half the duration of 1/16 notes).
t	Triplet (three notes in the space of 2).
s	Swing (syncopated notes, where the second note of a
	pair drags a little).

The default value is “1/32”. Selecting shorter values may result in machine-gun type rolls at high tempo values. Always specify the resolution after setting the Style or Song tempo, or change it to a more usable value if your setting turns out to be too optimistic to produce natural rolls.

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

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