Originally posted by MikeTV:
Now the bad news:
It seems that Roland have totally cocked up (technical term!) the style control section yet again.
The much vaunted "6 Fill Ins" cannot be freely triggered.
The free selection of fills is a patent owned by Yamaha; that's why Roland cannot implement it (like other manufacturers cannot implement many other functions patented by Roland).
Anyway you found by yourself a way to go round the problem if you really need.
Further bad news is that, once again, there only seem to be 3 chord-driven pattern variations per style division - major, minor, and seventh. Primitive, or what! It's all very the instrument well being able to recognise umpteen different chords, but not much use if they are then mapped to a pattern which is musically innapropriate.
This is just not good enough on an instrument of this class.
What you say it's not true: arrangement basic patterns are dynamically changed depending on the played chord; this is typical of Roland arrangers from many years and you should know it if you own a VA-76.
After the abysmal VA range (I own a VA76) it looked, at first sight, as if Roland had actually paid some attention to what customers were saying and made a big effort with this one.
You define the VA 'abysmal' but you still own a VA-76 after so many years???
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