Roland V-Arranger Keyboard VA-76 - Manual (Page 202)

VA-76 Owner’s Manual—MIDI
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Style RX Sync, Song RX Sync
The Style RX Sync and Song RX Sync parameters are
used to specify whether and how the Arranger or
Composer should be synchronized to external
sequencers or drum machines. The available options
are:
Internal— The Arranger or Song Composer will fol-
low its own internal tempo.
Auto— This is a function for remote control of Arran-
ger/Song Composer playback (using a PK-5, for exam-
ple). If the VA-76 receives a MIDI Start message (FA),
it looks out for Clock messages. If those Clock mes-
sages are not received (a PK-5, for instance, doesn’t
send them), the VA-76 starts playback using its inter-
nal tempo. If those Clock messages (F8) follow the
Start message, the VA-76 uses the external tempo. You
can, however, go on using the Arranger/Song Com-
poser without MIDI Start/Clock messages, which is
not possible when you select MIDI.
MIDI— The Arranger or Song can only be started or
stopped with MIDI realtime messages (Start, Stop,
Clock) coming from an external clock source.
Remote— The Arranger or Song Composer waits for
a start message to start playback at its own tempo. As
soon as it receives a stop message, playback will stop.
On/Off
Use these switches to enable (On) or disable (Off) the
reception of these messages.
Basic
[FUNCTION MENU]
→
[MIDI] field
→
[Utilities MIDI] field
→
[Basic] field
The Basic Channel is used for several things: to receive
and transmit Program Change and Bank Select mes-
sages for selecting User Programs, as well as for the
reception and transmission of other kinds of messages
that are not directly related to a specific MIDI channel
but may affect the VA-76’s parts (such as the Part
Switch function, for example). That doesn’t mean that
the MIDI channel assigned to the Basic Channel func-
tion is of no importance. Only, the messages received
on that channel may also apply to other aspects of
your VA-76.
TX/RX Channel
(1~16) Use these parameters to assign an RX (receive)
or transmit (TX) channel to the Basic Channel func-
tion. If you do not want the Basic Channel messages to
be received (or transmitted), press the [ON/OFF] field
so that it reads [OFF].
Filter
There are three functions for which you can specify
whether (On) or not (Off) the corresponding MIDI
messages should be received (or transmitted):
PartSwtc— Whenever you mute or un-mute a part on
the Mixer pages, your VA-76 sends an NRPN message
that describes your action. The VA-76 allows you to
keep it from sending that message (or to respond to it
whenever it is received from an external instrument).
Filtering these messages on the TX side may be useful
to keep your external sequencer from recording them
– or the receiving GS module from muting the part
assigned to that channel.
UsrPrgPC— This parameter is used to filter the trans-
mission (TX) or reception (RX) of program change
and bank select messages relative to User Program
selection.
MstVolum (RX only)— This parameter allows you to
enable or disable the reception of Master Volume mes-
sages (see page 199) that would change the volume of
the entire VA-76.
Lyrics (TX only)— The Lyrics function of your VA-76
is MIDI message used to transmit the words (or lyrics)
contained in a Standard MIDI File (as meta-text
events). Playing back Standard MIDI Files that con-
tain lyrics data causes the VA-76 to send these data on
the Basic Channel – unless you set this filter to [OFF].
Select [ON] if you want to transmit Lyrics data to an
LVC-1 Lyrics-to-Video Converter.
Style
[FUNCTION MENU]
→
[MIDI] field
→
[Utilities MIDI] field
→
[Style] field
The Style Channel is a MIDI channel used for receiv-
ing and transmitting Program Change and Bank
Select messages allowing you to select Styles via MIDI,
and volume messages that change the volume of a
Style. Note that these two message types can only be
filtered individually in the RX column (i.e. you can
select whether or not to receive them).
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