Roland V-Arranger Keyboard VA-76 User Manual

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VA-76 Owner’s Manual—More about the VariPhrase part

Time Sw

When Time Keyfollow (see page 79) is set to a value
other than “0,” the Time Sw setting specifies whether
differences in the playback speed between the first-
played key will be smoothly changed to the playback
speed of the second-played key (ON), or whether it
will change abruptly (OFF).

Note: This function is only available when the Master Sw is
set to “ON”.

Mode

This parameter allows you to specify when the Porta-
mento effect should be applied:

NORMAL— Portamento is used for all notes.

LEGATO— Portamento will be applied only when
you play legato (i.e., when you press the next key
before releasing the previous key).

Type (portamento type)

This allows you to decide how the Portamento effect
should work:

RATE— The time of the pitch change depends on the
interval between the first and the second key you
press. For small intervals, the change will take longer,
while it will become progressively faster as you play
wider intervals. (Here, the Time value is adapted to the
interval so as to avoid excessively long glides.)

TIME— The Time value (see below) will always be
used, no matter how big or small the interval between
two notes played in succession.

Start

When another key is pressed while the Portamento
effect is already executing the transition to the previ-
ously played note, a new transition will be started (to
the newly played note). Start allows you to specify the
pitch at which the new transition should begin.

PITCH— When another key is pressed while the pitch
is moving, the new transition starts from the pitch
that had been reached at that moment.

NOTE— Portamento will begin from the pitch where
the current change would have ended if you hadn’t
pressed another key before the transition was com-
plete.

Time (portamento time)

(0~127) Allows you to specify how long it takes before
the pitch of the newly played note is reached. The
higher the value, the longer the transition.

5. Press the [EXIT] field if you want to do something
else now.

Pitch

First note: C4

Second note: C5

Third note: D4

Time

The transition starts
at the currently
reached pitch

Pitch

First note: C4

Second note: C5

Third note: D4

Time

The transition starts at the C5

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