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VA-76.book Page 3 Friday, January 12, 2001 12:35 PM
VA-76
V-Arranger Keyboard
128-voice polyphony
Owner’s Manual
Thank you, and congratulations on your choice of the Roland VA-76 V-Arranger Keyboard.
The VA-76 is the 76-key (weighted synthesizer action), professional version of the widely acclaimed VA-7. VariPhrase,
brandnew and strikingly realistic sounds and Drum Sets, all-new Music Styles, an animated touch screen, an Audio In
connector with separate effects, 2 programmable “Pad” buttons
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VA-76.book Page 4 Friday, January 12, 2001 12:35 PM The symbol alerts the user to important instructions Used for instructions intended to alert or warnings.The specific meaning of the symbol is the user to the risk of death or severe determined by the design contained within the injury should the unit be used triangle. In the case of the symbol at left, it is used for improperly. general cautions, warnings, or alerts to danger. Used for instructions intended to alert The
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VA-76.book Page 5 Friday, January 12, 2001 12:35 PM VA-76 – Owner’s Manual • The instrument and the power cord should be located so their position does not interfere with their proper ventilation. .............................................................................................................. • Always grasp only the plug or the body of the power cord when plugging into, or unplugging from, an outlet or this instrument. ........................................................
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VA-76.book Page 6 Friday, January 12, 2001 12:35 PM Features Features VariPhrase processor The VA-76 features a new breakthrough in sampling technology that allows for “elastic” processing and MIDI data-like manipulation of sampled audio phrases. You can now combine Arranger playback (accompaniments) with realtime triggering of sampled phrases so as to (re)create vocals, “acoustic” solo parts, etc., while giving the impression that the part in question is being sung or played to the VA-76
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VA-76.book Page 7 Friday, January 12, 2001 12:35 PM VA-76 – Owner’s Manual 128 High-definition Music The VA-76 comes loaded with an impressive 128 high-definition Music Styles covering Styles, plus 559 Music every musical genre you need. Each Style comprises four versions (Basic, Advanced, Orig- Styles on the supplied Zip inal, and Variation), two Intros, two Endings, four orchestrations, and various other ele- disk ments that actually add up to far more than 128 accompaniments. 64 “Disk Link”
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VA-76.book Page 8 Friday, January 12, 2001 12:35 PM Features Useful options FC-7 Foot Controller The FC-7 Foot Controller allows you to perform various Style selection functions (Fill In To Original/To Variation, Start/Stop, etc.) by foot. Connect it to the FC7 PEDAL socket at the back of your VA-76. The functions performed by the FC-7’s foot switches is program- mable. Note: The FC-7 cannot be used as MIDI pedal board because it transmits pulses rather than MIDI messages. Do not try to c
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VA-76.book Page 9 Friday, January 12, 2001 12:35 PM VA-76 – Owner’s Manual Important notes In addition to the items listed under “USING THE UNIT SAFELY” (see page 4), please read and observe the following: • To avoid disturbing your neighbors, try to keep the vol- Power supply ume at reasonable levels. You may prefer to use head- • Do not use this instrument on the same power circuit phones, so you do not need to be concerned about those with any device that will generate line noise (such
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VA-76.book Page 10 Friday, January 12, 2001 12:35 PM Important notes Rear side of the disk WRITE (you can save new data to disk) Write protect tab PROTECT (prevents writing to disk) • Disks containing important performance data for this instrument should always be locked (have their write protect tab slid to the PROTECT position) before you insert them into the drive of another instrument. • The identification label should be firmly affixed to the disk. If the label comes loose while the d
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VA-76.book Page 11 Friday, January 12, 2001 12:35 PM VA-76 – Owner’s Manual Contents 4.6 Arranger/Music Style clinic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 1. Panel descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14 Selecting Music Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 1.1 Front panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Orchestrator and Morphing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 1.2 Rear panel . . . . .
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VA-76.book Page 12 Friday, January 12, 2001 12:35 PM Contents 7.4 One Touch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 10.2 Song List: searching songs on disk (Find) . . . . . . . . 133 Ignoring certain One Touch settings (Cancel Options) 100 Play & Search: finding Songs by playing a few notes . . .133 Programming your own Tone selections (Memorize) .100 10.3 Song playback functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 7.5 More refined Arranger settings .
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VA-76.book Page 13 Friday, January 12, 2001 12:35 PM VA-76 – Owner’s Manual 12.5 User Style Edit mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 15. Disk functions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .209 Erase. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178 15.1 Autoload . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209 Delete. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178 15.2
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VA-76.book Page 14 Friday, January 12, 2001 12:35 PM VA-76 Owner’s Manual—Panel descriptions 1. Panel descriptions 1.1 Front panel D BEAM CONTROLLER A ON/OFF FG H VOLUME M-FX B C E CONTROLLERS EFFECTS ONE TOUCH MELODY INTELL MIN MAX MIN MAX TRANSPOSE M-VALUE BALANCE D KEYBOARD MODE USER PROGRAM ON/OFF SYNC OTHER ARRANGER PIANO DOWN UP ACCOMP KEYBOARD FREE PANEL IJ K A D BEAM CONTROLLER section E MELODY INTELL button Use the [ON/OFF] button to switch the D Beam Con- Press this button (so that
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VA-76.book Page 15 Friday, January 12, 2001 12:35 PM VA-76 – Front panel J KEYBOARD MODE section K USER PROGRAM [DOWN]/[UP] buttons These three buttons are used to specify whether the These buttons allow you to select the previous keyboard will be split or whether one sound can be (DOWN) or next (UP) User Program. User Programs played using the entire keyboard. Press the [OTHER] are registration memories. button if you want to use other configurations than Press either or both of them while
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VA-76.book Page 16 Friday, January 12, 2001 12:35 PM VA-76 Owner’s Manual—Panel descriptions MONO STEP ENCODE CAPTURE S GROUP BACKGROUND MELODIC RHYTHMIC USER BACKGROUND 2 BACKGROUND 3 RHYTHMIC 2 USER 2 T W STYLE TONE USER PROGRAM DATA TEMPO/TAP U V BANK GROUP A PIANO CHR PERC ORGAN GUITAR BASS ORCHESTRA ENSEMBLE BRASS C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 B REED PIPE SYN LEAD SYN PAD SYN SFX ETHNIC PERCUSSIVE SFX Z NUMBER PART 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 TEMPO DATA XY S VariPhrase section X TEMPO/DATA dial These buttons
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VA-76.book Page 17 Friday, January 12, 2001 12:35 PM VA-76 – Front panel e d f a b g c a Floppy disk drive d Ribbon controller This is where you can insert 2DD or 2HD floppy disks Slide your finger on the ribbon or press a given posi- for external storage of your Music Styles, User Pro- tion in order to modify the value of the parameter that grams, Composer Songs, and MIDI Sets. Press the is being controlled. You can select the parameter to be eject button to remove the disk from the drive. c
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VA-76.book Page 18 Friday, January 12, 2001 12:35 PM VA-76 Owner’s Manual—Panel descriptions 1.2 Rear panel SUSTAIN FOOT FOOT MIDI FOOTSWITCH SWITCH PEDAL THRU OUT IN C POWER ON AC LCD CONTRAST FC7 PEDAL AB DEFG H A POWER ON button E SUSTAIN FOOTSWITCH socket Press this button to switch the VA-76 on and off. Connect an optional DP-2, DP-6, or BOSS FS-5U footswitch to this socket to sustain the notes of the B AC socket Keyboard parts even after releasing the key(s) you This is where you n
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VA-76.book Page 19 Friday, January 12, 2001 12:35 PM VA-76 – Audio connections 2. Setting up and demo songs 2.1 Audio connections The VA-76 does not contain an internal amplification OUTPUT 2 sockets— Use these sockets whenever you system. You will either have to use stereo headphones wish to amplify certain parts of your VA-76 without or connect the VA-76 to a keyboard or other type of the internal effects. Using these sockets can be useful amplifier and speaker system. You could also conn
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VA-76.book Page 20 Friday, January 12, 2001 12:35 PM VA-76 Owner’s Manual—Setting up and demo songs Once the internal circuit tests have been completed, The demo songs do not reside in the VA-76’s internal the display looks as follows: memory but on the supplied Zip. If you do not insert that disk before proceeding, the following message is displayed: This page will be displayed automatically whenever you leave the VA-76 unattended for more than five minutes. 8. Press a “DEMO” field to se
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VA-76.book Page 21 Friday, January 12, 2001 12:35 PM VA-76 – Listening to the demo songs If you selected TONE DEMO: If you selected VariPhrase DEMO: • Demo playback starts automatically. But you can press • Playback starts automatically. Press the [STOP ] field a Tone family field (“Piano”, “CPerc”, etc.) to select to stop demo song playback. Press [PLAY ®] to start another demo song that features the Tones of that it again. family. • Press [EXIT] to leave the Virtual Band mode and to Th
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VA-76.book Page 22 Friday, January 12, 2001 12:35 PM VA-76 Owner’s Manual—Scratching the surface 3. Scratching the surface 3.1 The general idea 3.2 Easy Routing: quick Your VA-76 is two instruments in one: one half pro- registration vides the backing for the melody you play in the other The Virtual Band page is the first page that is displayed half. after switching on the VA-76: Left hand: Right hand: melody (Key- Arranger control board parts/VariPhrase part) There are two main sections
