Roland VA-76 owner manual Disk User

VA-76 – Arranger/Music Style clinic

selection via the display”). Just be sure to select group C. Here’s what the display looks like when group C has been selected:

Even for Music Styles on Zip/floppy, the VA-76 thus displays their names. In fact, it’s the names that are important for finding the Styles on a disk. If you change the name of a Music Style that is referenced by one of the Disk Link memories (see page 110), the VA-76 can no longer find it. Conversely, if you have two Zip disks (for example) that both contain a Music Style called “Reggae1”, even inserting the “wrong” Zip disk would recall a “Reggae1” Style – but it might be the wrong one (and quite a few other Disk Link mem- ories might not recall any Style at all, because the other names only exist on the “other” disk).

Note: See page 62 for the meaning of the [Orchestrator] field.

Do not forget to insert the required Zip and/or floppy disk into the VA-76’s drive. Failure to do so may lead to the following message being displayed:

In the case of a Music Style on floppy disk, the message about a missing Music Style would be:

In that case, press the Eject button on the floppy drive, insert the correct floppy disk, and press the [RETRY] field.

Note: If you do not wish to use the Music Style after all, press [EXIT]. In that case, the VA-76 will go on using the last Music Style it did find.

Disk User

You can also load one Music Style directly into the VA-76’s Disk User memory and use it as if it were a 193rd Music Style. You could take advantage of this function whenever none of the 64 Disk Link memo- ries refer to the Music Style you need for playing a given song.

Note: The Music Style in this memory is only available until you switch off the VA-76 or load another Style. Be aware that selecting a Disk Link Style will also overwrite the last Disk User Style you selected.

Note: Unlike the Disk Link memories, the reference to the selected Music Style is not remembered (and therefore not “fixed”).

1.Insert the Zip or floppy disk with the desired Music Style into the (appropriate) drive.

2.On the Music Style selection page (see above), press the [Disk User] field.

If the Zip drive currently contains another disk, press the [ZIP Eject] field to eject that Zip disk. Then insert the disk that contains the referenced Music Style.

Note: If you do not wish to use the Music Style after all, press [EXIT]. In that case, the VA-76 will go on using the last Music Style it did find.

The display now looks as follows:

3.Press the [FLOPPY] or [ZIP] field to specify whether you want to load a Music Style from a Zip or a floppy disk.

4.Press the field that contains the name of the Music Style you want to load.

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