Roland VA-76 owner manual Selecting Drum Sets for the MDR part, Select the MDR part

VA-76 Owner’s Manual—VA-76 clinics

Selecting Drum Sets for the MDR part

The MDR part may already be a remarkable function by itself. But things really become interesting when we tell you that the VA-76 comes with 116 different Drum Sets to choose from.

There are Drum Sets for just about any musical genre you can think of – and usually, you can even choose among several alternatives. See page 233 for a list of the available Drum Sets. While looking at that list, remember that every note plays a different drum sound.

The notes have two “addresses” (see also the chapter about MIDI): a note number (0~127), and a note name (C–1~G9). The sounds that can be triggered in WHOLE mode without transposing the keyboard are E0 (16)~G6 (91). Lower and higher notes require that you transpose the MDR part using the Octave func- tion (see page 54).

The readily available drum sounds are indicated by means of greyed keys in the list for easy identification. Remember, however, that in SPLIT mode, only the notes C3 (48)~G6 (91) are available – unless you change the split point (see page 35).

1.See “Selecting Tones for the Keyboard parts” on page 37 for the basic operation.

Remember that you can either work via the display or with the BANK/NUMBER pad after pressing the [TONE] button. The display should look as follows:

2.Select the MDR part:

•Either hold down the [PART] button while pressing NUMBER [3]; —or—

•Press the [Part] field on the above page, and then press the [MDR] field. (Then press the [Tone] field to return to the above page.)

3.Select the desired Drum Set (here you only need to select a bank and a number).

See “Tone selection via the front panel” on page 37 and “Tone selection via the display” on page 39.

Be sure to try out at least the Drum Sets whose names start with a “V”. The V-VoxDrumSet (Tone Map 4, 88) is especially interesting for voice percussion. If you take a close look at the table below, you will recognize that they follow a pattern: bank “1” of all Maps con- tains generally usable Drum Sets, bank “2” Drum Sets with effects (ambience, special Dance noises), bank “3” rock kits, etc.

Note: The Drum Sets labelled CC32= 122 (General MIDI

2)and CC32= 119 (XG) cannot be selected via the front panel. You need to play back a Standard MIDI File using the Composer, or transmit these CC32 values to the VA-76 via MIDI.

Tone Map 4		74	KICK&SNARE 2	71	ORCHESTRA	41	ELECTRONIC
11	STANDARD 1	75	ASIA	72	ETHNIC	42	TR-808
12	STANDARD 2	76	CYMBAL&CLAP	73	KICK & SNARE	51	JAZZ
13	STANDARD L/R	77	GAMELAN 1	75	ASIA	61	BRUSH
14	V-Pop1St	78	GAMELAN 2	76	CYMBAL&CLAP	71	ORCHESTRA
15	V-R&B	81	SFX	81	SFX	81	SFX
16	V-Fiesta	82	RHYTHM FX	82	RHYTHM FX	88	CM-64 / 32L
21	ROOM	83	RHYTHM FX 2	83	RHYTHM FX 2
22	HIP HOP	84	RHYTHM FX 3	128CM-64/32L		CC32= 122
23	JUNGLE	85	SFX 2	Tone Map 2		(General MIDI 2)
24	TECHNO	87	CYM&CLAPS 2			1	GM2
25	ROOM L/R	88	V-VoxDrum	11	STANDARD 1	9	GM2 ROOM
26	HOUSE	128CM-64/32L		12	STANDARD 2	17	GM2 POWER
31	POWER	Tone Map 3		21	ROOM	25	GM2 ELECTRIC
32	V-Rock1St			31	POWER	26	GM2 ANALOG
33	V-Rock2St	11	STANDARD 1	41	ELECTRONIC	33	GM2 JAZZ
41	ELECTRONIC	12	STANDARD 2	42	TR-808/909	41	GM2 BRUSH
42	TR-808	13	STANDARD 3	43	DANCE	49	GM2
43	DANCE	21	ROOM	51	JAZZ	57	GM2 SFX
44	CR-78	22	Hip-Hop	61	BRUSH
45	TR-606	23	JUNGLE	71	ORCHESTRA	CC32= 119 (XG)
46	TR-707	24	TECHNO	72	ETHNIC	1 standard kit XG
47	TR-909	31	POWER	73	KICK&SNARE	2 standrd kit2 XG
51	JAZZ	41	ELECTRONIC	74	E-40 Modified	9 room kit XG
52	JAZZ L/R	42	TR-808	81	SFX	17 rock kit XG
61	BRUSH	43	DANCE	82	RHYTHM FX	25 electro kit XG
62	BRUSH 2	44	CR-78	128CM-64/32L		26	analog kit XG
63	BRUSH 2 L/R	45	TR-606	Tone Map 1		33 jazz kit XG
64	V-JazzBrush	46	TR-707			41 brush kit XG
71	ORCHESTRA	47	TR-909	11	STANDARD	49 classic kit XG
72	ETHNIC	51	JAZZ	21	ROOM	121SFX 1 kit XG
73	KICK & SNARE	61	BRUSH	31	POWER	122SFX 2 kit XG

®Numbers indicated as “123” are MIDI Program Change numbers

Note: As you see, the Sets are divided over several Tone Maps. See also page 41.

Note: There are no Variation Drum Sets, which is why the [Variations] field is not displayed when the MDR part is selected.

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