Roland V-Arranger Keyboard VA-76 - Manual (Page 45)

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VA-76 – VariPhrase clinic
Here’s how to select the Mono mode:
1. Press the Mode [MONO/POLY] button to make it
light.
If the indicator doesn’t light, the POLY mode is
selected. Here, we need the MONO mode.
2. Switch on the Upper1 part (see page 45) and select
the SPLIT Keyboard mode (see page 36).
3. Play a few chords with your right hand and listen to
what happens.
Here are two other ways of selecting the MONO
mode:
a) Press and hold the Mode [MONO/POLY] button.
—or—
b) Proceed as follows:
• Press the [FUNCTION MENU] button.
• On the Function Menu page, press the [ VariPhrase]
field.
• On the VariPhrase page, press the [Global] field.
• On the Global Parameters page, press the [Key
Assign] field.
The display now looks as follows:
4. Press the [Mono] field.
5. Press [EXIT] to return to the Master page.
Trigger
Yet another way of changing VariPhrase playback is to
select how the selected phrase behaves once you have
started it, and how it will be stopped. The VA-76 pro-
vides three options you will find on the “Trigger” page.
1. Activate the VariPhrase part (see page 45) and
switch off all other parts (see page 36).
2. Select a VariPhrase.
The following may not be what you think is necessary,
but it shows you just how user-friendly the VA-76 is.
We will indeed take advantage of the jump functions
mentioned under “Which button does what? (Panel
Info)” on page 24 for calling up a page that cannot be
selected directly. (If you want to select the Trigger
parameters “the hard way”, see step (b) above.)
3. Press and hold the Mode [STEP/SYNC] field.
This calls up the following display page:
This is not the page we need, but the one we do need is
only one press away:
4. Press the [Trigger] field.
Now look at the three icons in the right section. They
already tell you how a running phrase will be stopped:
Gate— This means that the phrase will play for as
long as you hold a key down. When you release it, the
phrase stops. (Depending on the Mode setting, see
page 82, holding the key down for a long time may
mean that the selected phrase is repeated.)
Trigger— Press a key once to start playback of the
phrase. Release the key and press it again to stop play-
back. This is similar to using a casette deck: you press
the Play button to start playback, and the Stop button
to stop it. Here, of course, the key acts as Play and Stop
button.
Drum— This setting means that pressing a key will
start playback of the selected phrase and that you can-
not stop it: it will go on sounding until it is finished.
The phrase is not looped, however. This setting is par-
ticularly useful for (rap) phrases you want to start at
given intervals without worrying about stopping
them.
Note: Selecting this Trigger mode means that the phrases
cannot be looped (because there would be no way of stop-
ping them).
5. Press [EXIT] to return to the Master page.
Note: See also page 77 for additional VariPhrase parame-
ters.
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