Roland VA-76 Metronome Output, Metronome Mode, Count-In, Select one of the following options

VA-76 Owner’s Manual—VA-76 clinics

Metronome

The VA-76 is equipped with three metronomes: one for Style playback, one for Song Composer recording/ playback, and one for User Style Composer program- ming.

If you wish to hear a metronome during Style play- back, here is what you need to do:

1.On the Master page, press the metronome field (so that it turns white).

2.Start Arranger playback, and you will hear the met- ronome.

3.Press the metronome field again to switch off the metronome.

Metronome Output

The VA-76 also allows you to select how the metro- nome is played back:

1.Press the [CONTROLLERS] button.

This selects a display page with controller options. The exact look of that page is of little importance, for you need to press the [Metronome] field at the bottom of the screen, which is available on all pages:

The display now looks as follows:

If it doesn’t, press the [Style] field (it must be dis- played in white).

2.Select one of the following options:

Int— The metronome signal is played by the Drum Set currently assigned to the MDR part (see page 44) and thus transmitted to the OUTPUT 1 & 2 and PHONES socket.

Midi— The metronome signal is sent to the VA-76’s MIDI OUT port and can be played by an external module. This module must receive on MIDI channel

16.The safest would be to assign MIDI channel 16 to part 10 of a multitimbral module. That way, its Drum Set is triggered by the metronome. (The MDR part transmits on MIDI channel 16.)

EXT— The metronome signal is sent to the VA-76’s METRONOME OUT socket (rear panel). You can connect headphones to this socket and set the metro- nome’s volume using the LEVEL knob. This option may be useful as “click track” for a drummer.

ALL— The metronome is played by the VA-76’s MDR part and transmitted to MIDI OUT, the OUTPUT 1 & 2 sockets as well as the METRONOME OUT socket.

Metronome Mode

Yet another option on the above display page is to specify when the metronome should be sounded:

Always— The metronome even counts when Arran- ger playback is stopped. Press this field if you want to hear the metronome at all times (which is probably only useful when practising a new song).

Play— Press this field (so that it is displayed in white) if the metronome should only be sounded while the Arranger is playing back a Music Style pattern (Intro, Original, etc.).

Count-In

This parameter allows you to switch the Count-In function on or off. When on, the metronome will count in the specified number of measures (bars) before the Arranger starts playing.

Note: This count-in is also available when you are using the Sync Start function. In that case, playing a chord means that the Arranger only starts after 1 or 2 measures.

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