Roland VA-76 If your disk is not formatted either for VA series, Your brand-new song a name

VA-76 Owner’s Manual—VA-76 clinics

If your disk is not formatted (either for VA series	4. Press the [Name] field, because you need to give
	your brand-new song a name.
instrument or for MS-DOS), the following message
appears:

a)Press the [FORMAT] field. This display now looks as follows:

b)Press the [Quick] field. This should do in most instances. See page 132 for the [Full] option. The VA-76 starts formatting the disk. Once this has been completed, the following message appears:

The display now returns to the Disk Save page.

Note: If you want to save the song under its current name, or the name assigned by default (Song_001), you can skip steps (4)~(7).

Alphanumeric keypad

In fact, you even need to give your song two names: a Song Name, and a File Name. See page 109 for the dif- ference.

5.Press the [Song Name] field.

6.Enter the name:

•Move the cursor to the desired position using [o] and [k].

•Enter the character for that position using the alpha- numeric keypad. In many instances, you will have to press the desired field several times to select the desired character.

•Use the [A/a] field to alternate between captitals and small letters.

•Press the [Delete] field to delete the character indi- cated by the cursor (“_”). Press [Space] to insert a space. Press [Insert] to insert a character at the cur- rent position. All characters behind this position move one position further to the right.

7.Press the [File Name] field and enter the file name. See page 109 for details. Here, you can only enter 8 characters. All characters will be capitals.

8.Press the [EXECUTE] field to save your song.

The display tells you that the data are being saved, after which it returns to the Save Disk page.

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