Roland VA-76 owner manual Here’s how to select the Mono mode, Press the Trigger field

VA-76 – VariPhrase clinic

Here’s how to select the Mono mode:

1.Press the Mode [MONO/POLY] button to make it light.

If the indicator doesn’t light, the POLY mode is selected. Here, we need the MONO mode.

2.Switch on the Upper1 part (see page 45) and select the SPLIT Keyboard mode (see page 36).

3.Play a few chords with your right hand and listen to what happens.

Here are two other ways of selecting the MONO mode:

a)Press and hold the Mode [MONO/POLY] button. —or—

b)Proceed as follows:

•Press the [FUNCTION MENU] button.

•On the Function Menu page, press the [ VariPhrase] field.

•On the VariPhrase page, press the [Global] field.

•On the Global Parameters page, press the [Key Assign] field.

The display now looks as follows:

4.Press the [Mono] field.

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

Trigger

Yet another way of changing VariPhrase playback is to select how the selected phrase behaves once you have started it, and how it will be stopped. The VA-76 pro- vides three options you will find on the “Trigger” page.

1.Activate the VariPhrase part (see page 45) and switch off all other parts (see page 36).

2.Select a VariPhrase.

The following may not be what you think is necessary, but it shows you just how user-friendly the VA-76 is. We will indeed take advantage of the jump functions

mentioned under “Which button does what? (Panel Info)” on page 24 for calling up a page that cannot be selected directly. (If you want to select the Trigger parameters “the hard way”, see step (b) above.)

3.Press and hold the Mode [STEP/SYNC] field. This calls up the following display page:

This is not the page we need, but the one we do need is only one press away:

4.Press the [Trigger] field.

Now look at the three icons in the right section. They already tell you how a running phrase will be stopped:

Gate— This means that the phrase will play for as long as you hold a key down. When you release it, the phrase stops. (Depending on the Mode setting, see page 82, holding the key down for a long time may mean that the selected phrase is repeated.)

Trigger— Press a key once to start playback of the phrase. Release the key and press it again to stop play- back. This is similar to using a casette deck: you press the Play button to start playback, and the Stop button to stop it. Here, of course, the key acts as Play and Stop button.

Drum— This setting means that pressing a key will start playback of the selected phrase and that you can- not stop it: it will go on sounding until it is finished. The phrase is not looped, however. This setting is par- ticularly useful for (rap) phrases you want to start at given intervals without worrying about stopping them.

Note: Selecting this Trigger mode means that the phrases cannot be looped (because there would be no way of stop- ping them).

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

Note: See also page 77 for additional VariPhrase parame- ters.

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