No kidding I was sweating. I thought i was going to have to give Claude a new VA7 for a minute. After we loaded the two disks worth of software, the keyboard went into a mode where we had to calibrate the screen. I couldn't figure out what to do to make it calibrate. The screen kept saying to press this point and I would press it and nothing happened. Thank goodness Claude tried it and he realized you had to press and keep holding the spot until it told you to move to another spot. After we figured this out we moved on to loading the new variphrase presets. What I discovererd was that you had to put disk number 2 of the operating system back into the floppy drive and then it would begin loading. Without this disk in, an error kept showing up in the display. Again I was sweating!!! Finally, I had it, or so I thought, until I looked at the one touch settings and much to my dismay, they were all empty. Claude kept saying it was ok because the new music assistant was all he needed, but I knew something was wrong. I couldn't understand. Then, all of a sudden, a bell went off in my head and I remembered that you can program your own one touch settings and I went to the zip drive and loaded in the file called factory as a set up, and yes,,,,,,,,,the one touch settings came back.
All I can say is thank you Claude for your patience with me on Saturday. Someone else might have started demanding a new keyboard and not given me the chance to figure things out. I called Roland on Monday and told them about their incomplete directions. Oh well, live and learn.......
Enjoy your new version.
George Kaye
Kaye's Music Scene
Reseda, California