VA-76 Owner’s ManualSong Composer (the basics)

The display now looks more or less as follows:

3.Play the notes of the Song you want the VA-76 to find.

The key and rhythm are of little importance. (You must get the intervals right, though!) The note boxes will display a quarter note for every note you played. Five “note boxes” thus mean that you played five notes.

4.If you make a mistake, proceed as follows to correct

it:

Press the [Delete Last Note] field if you only wish to correct the last note.

Press [Reset] to erase all notes you have played so far. Then play the notes again.

5.Press the [SEARCH] field to launch the search for Songs that match the melody you played.

The display returns to the ZIP list page (see step (2) above). This time, only the names of the songs that contain the excerpt you played will appear in the List window. That’s why the counter may display some- thing like “12 of 301”.

6.Press the field of the Song you need, and then press the [LOAD] field.

7.Press [oBack] to return to the main Song Com- poser page and start playback of your song.

Please be aware that Play & Search is not supported by just any song. In fact, the P&S information is not “standard” Standard MIDI (and therefore not part of the files themselves). It belongs to the Database infor- mation to be found on a VA-76 Zip disk.

Songs for which there is Play & Search information are flagged with a note symbol ( ) to the left of their names on the Song List page.

Note: You can also program this information for Songs for which it is not yet available. See “P&S Input” on page 140.

10.3 Song playback functions

Playing back a standard MIDI File requires that you insert a disk containing song files into the correspond- ing drive and that you select the desired song. See “Lis- tening to Standard MIDI Files” on page 31 for details.

Song playback transforms the VA-76 into a GM2/GS sound module, thereby deactivating the Arranger sec- tion of your instrument. Leaving this mode is a matter of pressing the [EXIT] field.

The Keyboard parts remain active in Composer mode, and you can mute or solo any part of the song you are playing back. That way, you can also use Standard MIDI Files as backing tracks.

When playing back one of your own songs in which you used the VariPhrase part and your own phrases (User memory), you must load the phrase(s) in question before starting playback. See page 69.

Before starting playback of songs for which there is no User Program, simultaneously press User Program [DOWN] and [UP] to select the factory User Program (Free Panel). The Free Panel memory contains the default settings for all parts and is the only guarantee that the songs on disk will sound exactly the way the recording artist wanted them to.

On the other hand, the VA-76 also allows you to mod- ify the way in which Standard MIDI Files are played back (see “Header Post Edit” on page 161). You can thus “customize” Standard MIDI File playback.

Note: The VA-76 allows you to program Song Chains (or “Song Sets” on previous models). See “Song Chains” on page 137 for details.

Note: Songs on floppy or Zip can be linked to a User Pro- gram, so that selecting such a User Program automatically prepares the desired song. All you have to do then is start playback. See “Song & MIDI (Set) Link” on page 130.

Lyrics function

This function was provided to allow you to read the lyrics of the song the Composer is playing back in a karaoke fashion: the words to sing will be highlighted at the right time. Note that this function is only avail- able for Standard MIDI Files that contain lyrics. Ask your dealer for details.

1.Insert a Zip or floppy disk into the appropriate drive and select the Standard MIDI File with lyrics data that you wish to play back.

Note: The Standard MIDI Files on the supplied Zip disk contain no Lyrics data.

2.Press the [SONG COMPOSER] button.

3.On the display page that appears now, press the [Lyrics] field.

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