VA-76 – Sampling your own phrases

6.Press the SAMPLING [CAPTURE] button.

The display now looks more or less as follows:

7.Press the [A] or [B] field to select the desired User Phrase group.

8.Press a Phrase memory field (so that it is displayed in white).

9.Press the [Capture] field.

Try to select a field that reads NO PHRASE. Memories of that name indeed contain no data.

If all memories are occupied by previously loaded phrases, press a field that contains a phrase you no longer need, then press the [Delete] field. The display responds with:

Press [YES] to erase the selected User memory. Press [oBack] to return to the previous page and select another memory. Press [NO] to abort the sampling process.

The display now looks more or less as follows:

10.Enter a name for the phrase you are about to cre- ate.

See page 68.

11.Press the [EXECUTE] field.

The display now looks more or less as follows:

Check the Capturing Free Area field

If the value is less than “4 s”, it would be a good idea to delete a User phrase you have already saved to disk (see page 76) to free up sampling memory. Most audio phrases indeed require about four sec- onds. If the remaining time is less than this value, your sample may be stopped prematurely, which means that you won’t be able to record the entire audio phrase.

a)Press the [oBack] field twice.

b)On the display page that appears now (Phrase Source), press the field of a User phrase you no longer need so that it is displayed in white.

Note: Be careful not to select the memory you have just selected for sampling, for that won’t help you recover any memory capacity, because that memory is still empty.

c)Press the [Delete] field to dispose of that phrase.

d)Press the [Capture] field again.

About the phrase RAM memory

The total duration available for all 16 User Vari- Phrase memories is ±54 seconds. The required capacity is allocated intelligently. If you work with long phrases, however, you may not be able to take advantage of all 16 memory locations.

Here is an example: if User phrase A1 is 30 seconds long, while A2 uses 14 seconds, and A3 10 seconds, you’ve already used up the available 54 seconds, so that memories A4~B8 are of no use to you.

12.Press the [TEMPO/TAP] button at the desired tempo, or set the tempo value using the [TEMPO/ DATA] dial.

You can also specify the tempo value of the phrase at a later stage (see page 75). But if you do it here, you won’t have to worry about the tempo at a later stage. Besides, setting the correct tempo also allows you to take advantage of the metronome.

13.(Optional) Press the Metronome [OFF] field to activate the metronome.

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Roland VA-76 owner manual About the phrase RAM memory, Press the Sampling Capture button, See, Press the Execute field