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VA-76 – Sound Palette: editing Keyboard part parameters

8.7Sound Palette: editing Keyboard part parameters

Your VA-76 allows you to edit certain parameters that affect the way a Keyboard part sounds when you play it. These parameters will help you “modify” the parts by adjusting their brilliance, their modulation speed (Vibrato Rate), and so on.

Please bear in mind that the parameters discussed in this chapter only apply to the following Keyboard parts: Upper1, Upper2, Lower1, M.Bass (you must select one of these to ensure that the [Sound Palette] field is displayed). (The VariPhrase part provides its own editable parameters, see page 77 and following.) Assigning another Tone to a Keyboard part does not reset the part parameters discussed below. In other words, if you modify the envelope of the piano sound assigned to the Upper1 part, you might be inclined to think that you have changed the envelope of the piano Tone and that selecting another Tone for Upper1 will load other envelope settings. Though that is partly correct, the part parameter settings are added to the settings of the Tone you assign to a part.

Parts are in fact containers in which you can “put” a Tone and whose sound can be modified using the parameters described below.

Note: All Part parameters are relative parameters whose values are added to or subtracted from the preset Tone parameter values. That is why you can specify both positive (“more”) and negative (“less”) values.

1.Press the [TONE] button in the BANK/NUMBER section, or the [Tone] field on the Master page.

2.On the page that appears now, press the [Part] field in the lower left corner.

Note: Rather than performing steps (1) and (2), you could also press the [PART] button in the BANK/NUMBER sec- tion.

3.Press the [Sound Palette] field.

4.In the left column, press the field of the Keyboard part you wish to edit.

5.To quickly reset the selected parameter, press the [Reset] field.

6.To edit one of the displayed parameters, press its field and use the slider, the [TEMPO/DATA] dial, or the [DATA] button/Numeric Entry pad (see page 49).

7.Use the [o][k] fields to select the remaining

Sound Palette parameters.

Here are the Part parameters you can edit:

Modulation (Vibrato)

Vibrato is an effect created by modulating the pitch. Applying vibrato makes the sound more expressive. Pitch modulation adds a pleasant “wobble” to the notes you play. Use the following three parameters if you think the part in question has too much (or could use a little more) vibrato.

Note: Some “V” Tones contain natural (sampled) vibrato whose depth or speed cannot be changed.

Vibrato Rate [-64~63]—This parameter adjusts the speed of the pitch modulation. Positive (+) settings make the preset pitch modulation faster, and negative

(–) settings make it slower.

Vibrato Depth [-64~63]—This parameter adjusts the intensity of the pitch modulation. Positive (+) settings mean that the “wobble” becomes more prominent, while negative (–) settings make it shallower.

Vibrato Delay [–64~63]—This parameter adjusts the time required for the vibrato effect to begin. Positive

(+)settings increase the time before vibrato will begin, and negative settings shorten the time.

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