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

5.Press the [Edit] field.

(The display on your VA-76 may look slightly differ- ent.)

6.Press the [New] field to create a new Song Chain. Ignore this step if you want to edit (change) an exist- ing Song Chain (the one you selected above).

The display now looks as follows:

7.Press the first list field (the one that reads “End”) and [Song List].

8.Use the [TEMPO/DATA] dial to select a song on disk that is to be played first (assigned to Position 1).

9.Press the [CAPTURE] field.

The “End” entry now becomes Position “2”, while Position “1” contains the name of the selected Stan- dard MIDI File.

In the case of a Zip disk, you could also press the [Song List] field and use the Find function to narrow down the search.

10.Press the Position “2” field so that it is displayed in white.

11.Repeat steps (7)~(10) to compile your Song Chain.

End is the last entry. Any song after the End marker will not be included in your Song Chain.

12.Press the [Cancel] field to delete the currently selected Position.

This is the Position that is displayed in white. You can- not delete the “End” position.

If you are editing a Song Chain, you can use the

[i][m] fields to browse through the available steps.

13.Press the [Save] field to save your Song Chain. Your Song Chain will be saved under the first available number. You cannot name your Song Chain.

After saving the Song Chain to disk, the display returns to the Song Chain page.

14.Press the [oBack] field to return to the Song

Composer page (see above).

Your new (or edited) Chain is already selected and can be played back.

Playing back a Song Chain

To play back a Song Chain, proceed as follows:

1.See steps (1)~(4) on page 137.

2.Press the field of the Song Chain you wish to play back.

Use the [i][m] fields if the desired Chain is not dis- played in one of the 8 fields.

3.If you do not want to play back the entire Chain,

use theorfield to select the position where playback should start.

You can use these fields during playback or after press- ing [STOP √] to jump to the next or previous step.

4.Press the [PLAY ®] field to start playback of your

Song Chain.

The songs of the selected Song Chain are played back one after the other.

5.Press the [STOP ] field to stop playback.

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