Hi Sander,
I am sorry to say that the fade in/out feature is NOT implemented in OS 2.0 for VA7 (which I have installed about 2 weeks ago) and that's really a shame, if you consider that it could be easily added to one page of the touch screen menu.
Too bad, but there's still hope for the future...

Bad thing Dreamer! But the technical staff called back and said that I need to call next week again to speak to Christoph Mertens (I hope I spelled that right . The employee told me that sir Mertens seems to be more up to date, he knows whats going on at the factory and he might me able to give me (see 'me' like us) further detailed information. The employee which I spoke today also said that the fade in/out option just applies to the VariPhrase version of the VA76, which differs from the VA7.

So far, not so good yet. But as Dreamer said, there's hope..

Sander
The Netherlands

Hi,
I talked to Kristof Mertens about this in person when i met him on a clubmeeting last month. He explained that the goal is to make all V-arrangers look alike. That means that the default screens should all look alike.
He told me that that is the reason why they didn't include the missing pad-buttons on the touch-screen. So it is very unlikely that this feature will be included in future upgrades.

One more trick.Did you ever merged (mixed)
two drumtracks.I mean you have a userstyle
and than you change the drumtrack not by
REPLACE but by MERGE.If the merging drum-
tracks use different DRUMSETS ,you may not
be happy with the result.We are talking now
from the result after COPYing from a SOURCE
track to a DESTINATION track.
The problem could be you hear a few bars one
drumset and the next bars another?
This problem can be solved in the MICRO again
Here you see settings for several parameters,
You see Reverb, Chorus, Bank(2x).When you
scroll the track and you find Bank(2x)again,
you have to erase these parameters and it is
done. Now the drumtrack only uses one DRUMset
Try it out!

Bevan, can't you just replace one drumset with another? Wouldn't that be easier?

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New Yorker

Newyorker Hi,
You are right, but in the case you did the
merging in the way I talked about I gave a
solution for a problem.
Did you mean this; merge 2 styles with diffe-
rent drumsets, than make first the drumsets
the same? That is a good way to mix 2 styles.

This last trick was a good one for when you
trie out which combination of styles is the
best for you. When you are sure that the 2
styles will give you a good result Newyorker
was right.There are different situations.

This was a good subject to talk about. thanks
for the response.

Maybe it is good to show again these tips
and tricks for VA users again.
Deb

VA users should print these tricks out!When
you should not be a VA user print it out too.
Why ? Because I think that you could become
a ROLANDplayer in the future.