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5.If the desired Music Style is not displayed, use [o][k] to select another group of 4 Styles.

You can also use the [TEMPO/DATA] dial for select- ing other pages with different Music Styles on the inserted disk.

Note: The VA-76 contains a powerful search engine for quickly locating the desired Music Style on a Zip disk (see page 109). See page 110 for the [Options] field.

Note: Press the [EXIT] field if you do not want to use a Style on disk after all.

6.Press the [LOAD] field to copy the data of the selected Music Style to the VA-76’s Disk User mem- ory.

The display page does not change. This was done to allow you… to select another Music Style on Zip or floppy disk. Repeat the above procedure. As soon as you press the [LOAD] field, the name of the newly selected Style will appear in the “User” field in the upper left corner. When the pattern of the currently selected Music Style is finished, the VA-76 switches to the newly selected Style on disk.

7.Start playing with the newly selected Style.

The selection of the Disk User Style will be written to a User Program (see page 127). The User Program in question, however, refers to the memory address – not its contents. Next time you recall such a User Program, the VA-76 will therefore use the Style that resides in the Disk User memory at that time.

If, at that time, you haven’t loaded a User Style, the VA-76 will go on using the last Disk Link Style you selected. That is because the Disk User memory also acts as buffer for the Music Styles referenced by the Disk Link memories. If you haven’t selected any Disk Link Style since switching on the VA-76, it will go on using the last ROM Style.

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

The “User” message to the right of the [Style] field alerts you to the fact that you are currently using a Disk User Style.

Ejecting the Zip disk

OK, so you’ve inserted the Zip disk, and now press the eject button on the drive because you want to insert another Zip disk. But the Zip disk won’t come out of the drive…

This was done as a safety precaution because the VA-76 may still need to access the Zip for certain operations. Making it “official” that you no longer want to use the current Zip disk is thus the only way to remove the Zip disk.

(A floppy disk, on the other hand, can be ejected simply by pressing the eject button on the drive.)

1.Press the [FUNCTION MENU] button.

2.Press the [Floppy/ZIP Disk] field.

3.On the page that appears now, press the [Utility] field.

4.Press the [ZIP Eject] field.

The Zip disk is ejected – so you don’t even have to press the eject button on the drive.

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

Orchestrator and Morphing

The VA-76’s Music Styles are far more versatile than we have seen so far. For one, you can vary the repeat- ing accompaniment patterns (Basic, Advanced, Origi- nal and Variation). And you can also mix the parts of two Music Styles so as to create new Music Styles on the fly (Morphing).

Orchestrator

The Original and Variation patterns are the two “basic” Music Style patterns that can be selected by pressing the corresponding buttons on the front panel:

(Note that only one of them can be active.) Whereas [ORIGINAL] selects the simpler version of the repeat- ing (“looped”) accompaniment, [VARIATION] calls up a more “stuffed” version.

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Roland VA-76 owner manual Orchestrator and Morphing, Ejecting the Zip disk, Start playing with the newly selected Style