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

Note: If you rename or delete a song that is referenced by a Song Chain (see page 138), the Position in question will be empty. The VA-76 will skip such empty Positions during playback of the Chain in question. (Be aware that this may shorten your break when you use the VA-76 for gigs.)

P&S Input

This option allows you to program the theme that by which to find the Song using the Play & Search func- tion (see page 133). It is only available for Zip disks.

1.Press the [SONG COMPOSER] button.

2.Press the [Song List] field, followed by the [ZIP] field.

3.Select the song for which you want to program a theme.

4.Press the [Options] field.

5.Press the [P&S Input] field.

6.Play the notes of the most characteristic theme (the one you’ll be most likely to play when using Play & Search for locating this song).

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.

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

it:

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

b)Press [Reset] to erase all notes you have played so far.

Then play the notes again.

8.Press the [EXECUTE] field to save this information to 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: The Play & Search function is Database information that is not part of the songs themselves. It resides in a differ- ent area on the Zip disk.

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