Roland V-Arranger Keyboard VA-76 User Manual

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VA-76 – Tone clinic

The display now changes to:

This page means that the WHOLE Keyboard Mode is
currently selected (see page 35). If you don’t see this
page, press the [KEYBOARD MODE] field in the
upper right corner.

2. Press the [SPLIT] or the [WHOLE] field, depend-
ing on whether you wish to assign the MDR part to
the entire keyboard (WHOLE), or just the right half
(SPLIT).
If you press [SPLIT], the display now looks more or
less as follows:

SPLIT would be a good choice if you wanted to con-
trol the Arranger with your left hand, while adding a
percussion solo with your right.

If you work in SPLIT mode and need to play the Kick,
Snare, HiHat, etc. sounds (assigned to the keys that
cannot be triggered by the MDR part), consider using
the Octave function (see page 54).

3. Press the [MDR] field.
All part fields (WHOLE mode), or all part fields to the
right of the dividing line (SPLIT) turn blue (and the
KEYBOARD PARTS buttons go dark), while the
[MDR] field turns white. That is because you cannot
use both the MDR part and UP1, UP2, etc. This
wouldn’t make sense: playing a drum part often means
that you have to play semitone intervals (e.g. C4

→

C#4, etc.), while playing a melody would lead to sur-
prising percussion or drum lines if the MDR was also
on.

4. Play a few notes on the keyboard to try out the
drum sounds.
You may also want to try out the following:

Roll

The Roll function allows you to play perfect drum
rolls whose tempo is synchronized with the Arranger
or a Composer Song.

1. On the above display page (in SPLIT or WHOLE
mode), press the [Options] field.
If you lost the above display page, first press the
[OTHER] button on the front panel.

2. Press the [MDrums Roll] field (left column, central
field).
The display now looks as follows:

3. Press the indicated [ON/OFF] field so that it reads
“ON” and is displayed in white.

4. Again play a note.
The drum sound will now be played as a roll. Rolls are
always played in time with the tempo displayed on the
Master page. Try this out by changing the tempo using
the [TEMPO/DATA] dial.

Using the Modulation lever (press the lever away from
you), you can modify the volume of the drum roll. Try
this out now.

Setting the Roll resolution (speed)

You can specify the number of notes per beat for the
Roll function.

5. Press another note value field than the one that is
currently active.
There are six options that have the following meaning:

The default value is “1/32”. Selecting shorter values
may result in machine-gun type rolls at high tempo
values. Always specify the resolution after setting the
Style or Song tempo, or change it to a more usable
value if your setting turns out to be too optimistic to
produce natural rolls.

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

Symbol

Meaning

1/16

Sixteenth notes.

1/32

Thirty-second notes (half the duration of 1/16 notes).

Triplet (three notes in the space of 2).

Swing (syncopated notes, where the second note of a
pair drags a little).

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