Roland V-Arranger Keyboard VA-76 - Manual (Page 166)

VA-76 Owner’s Manual—Programming User Styles
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Furthermore, in User Style Record mode, all patterns
are looped, so that the VA-76 keeps playing them back
until you press the [START/STOP] button. A wrong
number of measures (5 instead of 4, for example) is
very likely to put you off, so do take the time to set the
pattern length before you start recording.
17. Press the [Length] field. The display now looks
like this:
It is perfectly possible to specify a different length
value for each track and division. Remember, however,
that the Basic and Advanced (Original and Variation)
tracks are looped during “real-life” use, so that a
64CPT phrase will be repeated for as long as another
track of the current division contains data.
Note: Even one-shot patterns are looped by the User Style
Composer. That is not the case, however, during Arranger
playback (i.e. everyday use of the Styles).
18. Press the [Division] field to select the group of
divisions whose length you wish to set.
The other options on this page are [Shared], [ALL]
and [Single]. [Shared] allows you to select all patterns
that are being shared, i.e. patterns that have been –or
will be– “cloned” during recording using the M=m=7,
B=A etc. options (see page 165). [Single], on the other
hand, allows you to treat all divisions as if they were
independent patterns – and select only those whose
length you wish to change after recording them. [ALL]
allows you to select all currently displayed divisions. In
most instances, this is the most convenient setting.
Cloning and edit functions and possible warnings
(Shared)
When re-recording or editing just one pattern of a
clone group, the following warning may be displayed:
It means that you are about to do something that will
disrupt the uniformity of the patterns you have chosen
to be identical (by cloning them).
Note that this page only appears if, after cloning sev-
eral patterns, you decide to only redo or edit the M/
Bsc/Or (or Or-M-Bsc) pattern, for example. Since the
VA-76 “knows” which tracks are clones, it will warn
you that you are about to record or edit a version
without copying it to the “shared” patterns. For your
reference, the names are displayed.
This should allow you to make up your mind whether
to modify the selected pattern without changing the
clones, or apply the changes to all clones (or shared
patterns).
• Press [Single] to edit the selected pattern without
changing the clones.
• Press [ALL] if the clones (or shared patterns) are to
change according to the modifications of the pattern
you are re-recording or editing.
• Press [ABORT] to leave this page without changing
anything, or [EXIT] to leave the User Style Composer
altogether.
Back to our accompaniment.
19. Start by selecting the Track whose length you wish
to set (using the [Track] field and the [TEMPO/
DATA] dial).
Rotating the dial fully clockwise will call up the ALL
option. Select ALL to set the length for all User Style
tracks (1~8).
20. Press the [Division] field and use the [TEMPO/
DATA] dial to select “ALL” Divisions.
Note: Selecting “ALL” means that you can specify the length
of all divisions that appear on this page.
To specify the length of only one pattern, press only
the corresponding field. To specify the length of sev-
eral patterns in one pass, press the field of every pat-
tern whose length you wish to set.
21. Press the [BAR] field.
As you see the bar values are now surrounded by a
box.
If you press [START/STOP] after bar 4…
…your Style will look (and sound) like this (5 bars):
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