Roland VA-76 owner manual Upper2 functions, UP1 Linked to Song, Upper 2 Split

VA-76 Owner’s Manual—Advanced Keyboard part functions

Memorize Super Tones: programming other assignments for the buttons

As stated earlier, you are free to assign any five of the VA-76’s 3,646 Tones to the User set memories for the SUPER TONES buttons.

1.Select a Tone for the Upper1 part. See page 37.

2.Press the [FUNCTION MENU] button.

The display now looks as follows:

3.Press the [Super Tones] field.

4.Press the [User] field.

5.On the page that appears now, press the [Memo- rize] field.

The display now looks as follows:

As you see, the name of the Tone selected for Upper1 appears above the five button icons. If you do not agree with the current selection, you can use the BANK/NUMBER buttons and/or the [TEMPO/ DATA] dial for selecting another Tone. It might be a good idea to work with the [GROUP], BANK and NUMBER buttons for selecting the Tone address (e.g. B51), while using the [TEMPO/DATA] dial to specify the desired Variation Tone (e.g. <12>).

Note: This does not allow you to change Tone Maps (see page 41), so preparing the Upper1 Tone before selecting the above page is definitely a better choice. That is also why we didn’t tell you to press and hold a SUPER TONES button: doing so would already select a Tone – and probably not the one you want.

6.Press a numbered field (that corresponds to the desired SUPER TONES button).

This field is now displayed in white.

7.Press the [EXECUTE] field to save your choice.

The display now responds with:

As soon as this message disappears, the display returns to the Factory/User page.

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

You could now try out the new assignment to check if it works. Press the SUPER TONES button whose Tone you changed.

UP1 Linked to Song

See page 33.

6.2 Upper2 functions

Upper 2 Split

On page 36, you learned how to split the keyboard into a left half with the LW1, LW2, and possibly also the MBS part, and a right half with the UP1, UP2 or the VariPhrase/MDR part. You can program an addi- tional split between the UP1 and the UP2 parts, which is great for playing question-and-answer types of mel- ody lines with a brass sound for Upper2, for example, and a clarinet or flute for Upper1. If you like, you can even add the VariPhrase part to the UP1 part – or use it instead of the UP1 part (see “Splitting Upper2 and the VariPhrase part” on page 88).

The possibilities are as follows:

LW1 +LW1LW2+(+LW2MBS)(+(+VariMBS) -	Upper2U per 2	UpperUpper1 and/or1 and/or
Phrase)(+ Arranger(+ Arrangercontrol)		VariPhraseVariPhrasepartpart
control)

The default split point is located at the G5 (lowest note of the Upper1 part).

Note: This function is only available in SPLIT Keyboard Mode. You cannot use it in WHOLE mode.

In effect, the VA-76 allows you to play at least three sounds assigned to three separate keyboard areas. On top of that, you can select the Arranger’s chord recog- nition area, i.e. the notes that feed the Arranger (see page 101).

Here is how to activate the UP2 Split function:

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