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need to do is press the desired NUMBER button just before the beat where you wish the new Music Style to take effect.

Style selection via the display

Let us now look at how to use the display for selecting Styles.

1.Press the [Style] field in the display.

The display now looks as follows:

Working with the Disk Link memories

The VA-76 provides 64 memories (8 banks x 8 num- bers) that refer to Music Styles on a Zip or floppy disk. Though these memories behave exactly like the mem- ories of groups A and B (that provide access to the 128 internal Music Styles), they only “work” if the disk in question has been inserted into the drive. Thanks to the VA-76’s powerful software, loading a Disk Link Style is as swift as working with internal Styles.

The Music Style referenced by the Disk Link memory you select is automatically loaded from disk and cop- ied to the Disk User memory (see also page 61). This is a RAM memory whose contents are erased when you switch off the VA-76, and overwritten when you select another Disk Link memory (or use the Disk User function).

Here’s in a nutshell what happens when you select a Disk Link memory. (Even though the drawing may suggest that this takes quite some time, the VA-76 per- forms these steps in a split second.)

The VA-76 looks up the name of the referenced Music Style

You select a Disk Link memory (group C).

If you look at the BANK/NUMBER buttons, you will notice that they now light in green.

2.Press the [A], [B], or [C] field to select the desired Music Style group.

3.Press one of the following fields to select a bank within that group:

Use these fields for selecting a Music Style bank:

4.Press a Style field to select a Music Style (number). While you’re at it, you may want to prepare the desired Orchestrator “version” so as to be all set for the next song you want to play. In that case, press the [Orches- trator] field and see page 62 for what to do next.

C11

C21

C31

C41

C51

C61

C71

C81

 

C12

C22

C32

C42

C52

C62

C72

C82

 

C13

C23

C33

C43

C53

C63

C73

C83

 

C14

C24

C34

C44

C54

C64

C74

C84

 

C15

C25

C35

C45

C55

C65

C75

C85

 

C16

C26

C36

C46

C56

C66

C76

C86

 

C17

C27

C37

C47

C57

C67

C77

C87

The data are

loaded from

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

C18

C28

C38

C48

C58

C68

C78

C88

Zip/floppy

 

Disk

User

The Style can be played

This memory contains

back.

the Music Style data

After unpacking the VA-76, these memories already contain links to 64 Music Styles on the supplied Zip disk. You can also program your own references to other Music Styles on disk (see page 108). You could even “mix” references to a Zip and a floppy disk.

The Disk Link memories are assigned to group C. You can use either of the above procedures for selecting them (“Style selection via the front panel”, “Style

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Roland VA-76 Style selection via the display, Working with the Disk Link memories, Press the Style field in the display