Roland V-Arranger Keyboard VA-76 - Manual (Page 110)

VA-76 Owner’s Manual—Mixer, effects and editing
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The VA-76 also allows you to set the volume, the ste-
reo position and the amount of effect the parts should
use. Of course, you can also program the effects them-
selves. All of these parameters can be found on the
Mixer pages.
There are three ways to select the VA-76’s Mixer. The
first is the most straightforward one, the others
require some additional operations.
a) Press the [Mixer] field on the Master page.
b) Press the [EFFECTS] button, followed by the [Key-
brd Mixer], [Style Mixer], or [Global Volume] field.
c) Press and hold the M-FX [ON/OFF] button, fol-
lowed by the [Keybrd Mixer], [Style Mixer], or [Glo-
bal Volume] field.
8.1 Structure of the Mixer pages
The main pages are structured in a very logical way:
The [Keybrd Mixer] field provides access to the
VA-76’s Keyboard parts: VariPhrase, Upper1, Upper2,
Lower1, Lower2, M.Bass, MEL INT, M.Drums and the
Audio In part.
The [Style Mixer] field allows you to set various
parameters of the Arranger (or “Style”) parts:
A.Drums, A.Bass, Accomp 1~6.
The [Global Volume] field allows you to set the vol-
ume of several part groups in one go. On a mixing
console, these sliders would be called the bus faders.
In fact, the Mixer is very similar to a mixing console,
because you can not only set the volume of the above
parts, but also their stereo position (PanPot) and the
amount of effect they should use. In other words: this
is where you can “mix” the parts so as to create a con-
vincing sound image.
For your convenience, you can do the mixing accord-
ing to two approaches:
(1) Via sliders on so-called palette pages
In this case, you can edit the selected parameter (vol-
ume, pan, effect send) for several parts at once. If the
desired part is not displayed, use the [o][k] fields to
select another group of Keyboard or Style parts. A typ-
ical palette page looks like this:
Press the [Palette] field (if available) so select the pal-
ette page. (If the [Single Part] field in the upper left
corner is displayed, you are on a palette page.)
On such palette pages, you need to proceed as follows:
1. Select one of the VA-76’s Mixer pages (see a~c).
2. Select the Mixer group that contains the part whose
settings you want to change by pressing the [Keybrd
Mixer] or [Style Mixer] field.
3. If the part you want to change is not displayed, use
the [o][k] fields to call up another group of four
parts/sliders.
4. Select the desired parameter by pressing the
[Delay], [Chorus], [Reverb], [PanPot] or [Volume]
field.
Note: The Delay effect is not available for the A.Drums,
M.Drums, VariPhrase, and Audio In parts.
5. Edit the selected parameter for one or several parts
in one of the following ways:
a) Use the on-screen sliders —or—
b) Press the name field (above the sliders) of the part
whose setting you wish to change and use the
[TEMPO/DATA] dial, or the [DATA] button/Numeric
Entry pad (see page 49).
8. Mixer, effects and editing
Means that you are on a palette page
[Single Part] and [PALETTE] are only available on
the pages you select via these fields
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