Roland V-Arranger Keyboard VA-76 - Manual (Page 104)

VA-76 Owner’s Manual—More about the Arranger
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Intro& Ending Alteration
Now suppose you like the accompaniment you
assigned your chord to (e.g. the “7th” pattern), but
think that the Intro and Ending sound odd when you
start a song with that chord (“Csus4” for instance).
Consider the following example: you assigned the C4
chord to the major family and the Intro of the Style
you are using contains the following progression:
C
→
Am
→
F
→
G
Starting the Intro with the C4 chord memorized
would transform this progression into the following:
C4
→
Am6
→
F
→
G7
The outcome is not really predictable. That is precisely
why you can turn the Alteration function off. Doing so
allows you to memorize the C4 chord but have the
Intro or Ending play the normal progression (e.g. C,
Am, F, G), and cause the Arranger to switch to the C4
chord when the Intro/Ending is finished.
1. On the page that appears when you press the Key-
board Mode [OTHER] button, press the
[ARRANGER CHORD] field if it is not displayed in
white.
2. Press the [Options] field.
3. Press the [Intro Ending Fill In] field in the left col-
umn.
The display now looks more or less as follows:
Press the [OFF] field if you don’t want the Intro and
Ending patterns to be affected by the “special”
(unusual) chords you play. Press the [ON] field if your
“special” chords should also be reflected by the Intro
and Ending patterns.
4. Press [EXIT] to return to the Master page.
You could also stay on this page for the following
function:
Musical Style playback: Wrap
The Wrap function is used to specify how the bass line
and accompaniment parts should be played. If the
bass, for instance, is programmed to play ascending
scales, some notes may be too high or too low to
sound natural in a given situation. Though perfectly
possible for the built-in tone generator, playing the
scales the way they were programmed affects the qual-
ity of your accompaniment.
So far, you may not have noticed the difference
because the default setting for the Wrap function is
“ON”, meaning that all parts are played in their natu-
ral range. The Wrap function transposes all accompa-
niment notes that are too low (for piccolo etc. sounds)
or too high (for bass sounds, etc.) one octave up or
down. The Wrap point is preset for each Tone and
cannot be changed.
The Accomp Wrap parameter allows you to activate or
cut the Wrap function. In most cases, ON is probably a
sensible setting.
1. On the page that appears when you press the Key-
board Mode [OTHER] button, press the
[ARRANGER CHORD] field if it is not displayed in
white.
2. Press the [Options] field.
3. Press the [Accomp Wrap] field in the left column.
The display now looks more or less as follows:
4. Press the field of the Arranger part whose Wrap set-
ting you wish to change.
That field is displayed in white.
5. Use the [TEMPO/DATA] dial to select “ON” or
“OFF”.
ON— All notes played by the selected part will sound
in a “natural” range for the selected Tone, i.e. neither
too low nor too high.
OFF— All notes of the selected part will be played the
way they were programmed. Select “OFF” if the chord
progression you are playing requires ascending or
descending lines or consistent chord voicings (such as
when the User Style function is used for sequencing).
Note: The A Drum part cannot be selected because it doesn’t
contain melodies, so that the Wrap function wouldn’t make
sense.
6. Press [EXIT] to return to the Master page.
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