6. Advanced Keyboard part functions VA-76 – Upper1 functions

6.1 Upper1 functions

More about the Super Tones

The SUPER TONES buttons are intended to help you select a Tone for the Upper1 (or UP1) part without bothering to use the [Tones] field on the Master page or the BANK/NUMBER buttons. They cannot be used for the other parts.

Whenever you press a SUPER TONES button, a page similar to the following appears:

The white field indicates the Tone that is currently assigned to the SUPER TONES button you pressed. By pressing another field, you can override this setting. But that is only temporary and cannot be written to a User Program.

You can, however, select another option by pressing the appropriate field and then press the [Customize] field. The display then responds with:

You can repeat this for the remaining SUPER TONES buttons.

As you see, there are 8 possibilities for each SUPER TONES button, for a total of 40 Tones selected by the Roland engineers. Here’s a list that may come in handy for almost instant location of the desired Tone for the Upper1 part:

1

St.AcPiano

1

JazzScat

 

 

2

RockPiano

2

Silent Night

 

 

3

ItMuset

3

WideFreHrns

 

 

4

SoftAccord

4

Sax Section

 

 

5

Vibraphone w

5

Brass Sect 5

 

 

6

Church Org.2

6

FatSynBrass

 

 

7 ChamberStr

7 WarmSaw1

 

 

8

St.Slow Str

8

WarmSaw3

 

 

1 DynoRhodes1

1 V Romantc Tp

 

 

2 St.FM EP

2 V MuteTp1

 

 

3

L-Organ

3

Super Tenor

 

 

4

Jazz Organ

4

Clarinet

 

 

 

5

B.Harp Basic

5

OboeExp.

 

 

6

PhaseClav

6

Flute Exp.

 

 

7 WarmSaw1

7 Violin Atk

 

 

8 JP8 Hollow

8 LM Blow Lead

 

 

1

V AcGuitar 1

 

 

 

 

 

2

V Fl.Gtr 1

 

 

USER

 

 

3

Jazz Gt

 

 

 

 

4

JC Chorus Gt

 

 

 

 

 

5

Overdrive 3

 

 

 

 

 

6

DistortionGt

 

 

 

 

 

7

PM Lead

SL

Voice

Glass &

Small

Phono

8

PureFlatLead

 

Aou

Glam

Club

Noise

This is the Factory set with fixed options for all five SUPER TONES buttons. Although you are free to select another option for a button, you cannot change the options themselves. There are eight possibilities per SUPER TONES button, and that’s it.

There is, however, a User set with five additional SUPER TONES memories. At first, the assignments to these buttons is as shown in the illustration below. Here is how to access the User set:

1.Press and hold any SUPER TONES button. The display now looks as follows:

You can also select this page by pressing the [FUNC- TION MENU] button followed by the [Super Tones] field on the Function Menu.

2.Press the [USER] field so that it is displayed in white.

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

4.Use the SUPER TONES buttons for selecting one of the five User assignments.

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Roland VA-76 owner manual Upper1 functions, More about the Super Tones