VA-76 Owner’s ManualMore about the VariPhrase part

Time Sw

When Time Keyfollow (see page 79) is set to a value other than “0,” the Time Sw setting specifies whether differences in the playback speed between the first- played key will be smoothly changed to the playback speed of the second-played key (ON), or whether it will change abruptly (OFF).

Note: This function is only available when the Master Sw is set to “ON”.

Mode

This parameter allows you to specify when the Porta- mento effect should be applied:

NORMAL— Portamento is used for all notes.

LEGATO— Portamento will be applied only when you play legato (i.e., when you press the next key before releasing the previous key).

Type (portamento type)

This allows you to decide how the Portamento effect should work:

RATE— The time of the pitch change depends on the interval between the first and the second key you press. For small intervals, the change will take longer, while it will become progressively faster as you play wider intervals. (Here, the Time value is adapted to the interval so as to avoid excessively long glides.)

TIME— The Time value (see below) will always be used, no matter how big or small the interval between two notes played in succession.

Start

When another key is pressed while the Portamento effect is already executing the transition to the previ- ously played note, a new transition will be started (to the newly played note). Start allows you to specify the pitch at which the new transition should begin.

PITCH— When another key is pressed while the pitch is moving, the new transition starts from the pitch that had been reached at that moment.

Pitch

C5

The transition starts

at the currently

reached pitch

D4

C4

Time

Third note: D4

Second note: C5

First note: C4

NOTE— Portamento will begin from the pitch where the current change would have ended if you hadn’t pressed another key before the transition was com- plete.

Pitch

The transition starts at the C5

C5

D4

C4

Time

Third note: D4

Second note: C5

First note: C4

Time (portamento time)

(0~127) Allows you to specify how long it takes before the pitch of the newly played note is reached. The higher the value, the longer the transition.

5.Press the [EXIT] field if you want to do something else now.

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Roland VA-76 owner manual Time Sw, Mode, Type portamento type, Start, Time portamento time