Roland V-Arranger Keyboard VA-76 - Manual (Page 60)

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5. If the desired Music Style is not displayed, use
[o][k] to select another group of 4 Styles.
You can also use the [TEMPO/DATA] dial for select-
ing other pages with different Music Styles on the
inserted disk.
Note: The VA-76 contains a powerful search engine for
quickly locating the desired Music Style on a Zip disk (see
page 109). See page 110 for the [Options] field.
Note: Press the [EXIT] field if you do not want to use a Style
on disk after all.
6. Press the [LOAD] field to copy the data of the
selected Music Style to the VA-76’s Disk User mem-
ory.
The display page does not change. This was done to
allow you… to select another Music Style on Zip or
floppy disk. Repeat the above procedure. As soon as
you press the [LOAD] field, the name of the newly
selected Style will appear in the “User” field in the
upper left corner. When the pattern of the currently
selected Music Style is finished, the VA-76 switches to
the newly selected Style on disk.
7. Start playing with the newly selected Style.
The selection of the Disk User Style will be written to a
User Program (see page 127). The User Program in
question, however, refers to the memory address – not
its contents. Next time you recall such a User Program,
the VA-76 will therefore use the Style that resides in
the Disk User memory at that time.
If, at that time, you haven’t loaded a User Style, the
VA-76 will go on using the last Disk Link Style you
selected. That is because the Disk User memory also
acts as buffer for the Music Styles referenced by the
Disk Link memories. If you haven’t selected any Disk
Link Style since switching on the VA-76, it will go on
using the last ROM Style.
8. Press [EXIT] to return to the Master page.
The “User” message to the right of the [Style] field
alerts you to the fact that you are currently using a
Disk User Style.
Orchestrator and Morphing
The VA-76’s Music Styles are far more versatile than
we have seen so far. For one, you can vary the repeat-
ing accompaniment patterns (Basic, Advanced, Origi-
nal and Variation). And you can also mix the parts of
two Music Styles so as to create new Music Styles on
the fly (Morphing).
Orchestrator
The Original and Variation patterns are the two
“basic” Music Style patterns that can be selected by
pressing the corresponding buttons on the front panel:
(Note that only one of them can be active.) Whereas
[ORIGINAL] selects the simpler version of the repeat-
ing (“looped”) accompaniment, [VARIATION] calls
up a more “stuffed” version.
Ejecting the Zip disk
OK, so you’ve inserted the Zip disk, and now press
the eject button on the drive because you want to
insert another Zip disk. But the Zip disk won’t come
out of the drive…
This was done as a safety precaution because the
VA-76 may still need to access the Zip for certain
operations. Making it “official” that you no longer
want to use the current Zip disk is thus the only way
to remove the Zip disk.
(A floppy disk, on the other hand, can be ejected
simply by pressing the eject button on the drive.)
1. Press the [FUNCTION MENU] button.
2. Press the [Floppy/ZIP Disk] field.
3. On the page that appears now, press the [Utility]
field.
4. Press the [ZIP Eject] field.
The Zip disk is ejected – so you don’t even have to
press the eject button on the drive.
5. Press [EXIT] to return to the Master page.
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