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VA-76 Owner’s Manual—Song Composer (16-track, etc.)

In-depth editing of a 16-track song

The Edit level of the 16-track mode provides eight functions: Erase, Delete, Insert, Transpose, Velocity, Quantize, Gate T., and Shift.

Here is how to select these Edit functions:

1.Load the song you wish to edit (if it does not yet reside in the VA-76’s Song RAM memory).

See page 31.

2.Press the [SONG COMPOSER] button.

3.Press the [16 Tracks Sequencer] field.

4.Press the [Edit] field in the bottom row of the dis- play.

5.Press a field in the left column to select the desired function.

If, after selecting one of these functions, you decide not to execute the transformation, do not press the [EXECUTE] field.

Here are a few guidelines for editing your 16-track song:

Note: Save your song to disk before continuing. That way, you can always return to the original if your changes do not work out as expected. See “Saving your song to disk” on page 67 for details.

a)Select the track(s) you wish to modify.

b)Select the range (From and To) for the edit opera- tion.

c)Enter what should be changed and how it should be changed. Press the desired field and use the [TEMPO/DATA] dial, the [DATA] button/Numeric Entry pad, or (for notes) the keyboard.

d)Confirm the operation by pressing the [EXECUTE] field.

e)Save your song to disk.

Available options for ‘Note’

For some functions, there is a Note parameter (called Data Type) with the following options. Be sure to press the correct option field one so as to achieve the desired result:

Only the selected note (note name/note num- ber) will be affected.

Only notes above the selected one will be affected (in this case “From Note” changes to Than Note).

Only the notes between the [From Note] and [To Note] will be affected.

Only notes below the selected one will be affected (in this case “From Note” changes to Than Note).

Specify the note by pressing the [From Note] field and by playing it on the keyboard or selecting it with the [TEMPO/DATA] dial. You can also use the [DATA] button/Numeric Entry pad. For [Between], there is also a [To Note] field that allows you to set the upper limit of the desired range.

Note: If you enter “From Note” and “To Note” by pressing the desired keys, the first note you play becomes the “From Note”, while the second note will be used as “To Note”.

Erase

Erase allows you to selectively delete data either within a specified range of measures, beats or clocks, or from the entire track(s). When Data Type is set to All, Erase substitutes the required number of rests for the data you delete, so that you end up with the equivalent number of blank measures. If you also want to elimi- nate the measures themselves, use Delete (see below).

Track (1~16, ALL, M)— Allows you to select the track you wish to edit. You can also select “All” here, in which case the operation applies to all tracks except the Master track (M). The M track can only be selected in isolation.

From/To— “From” refers to the position where the edit operation is to begin. That position is specified as Bar-Beat-CPT values. “To” designates the position where the edit operation is to end (Bar-Beat-CPT value).

Bar (1~9999)— This is where you specify the bar position. By default, the “From” and “To” values are set to the beginning and end of the selected track(s). At first, the “To” value always refers to the end of the longest track.

Beat (1~[number of beats per bar])— This is where you specify the beat position. The number of select- able beats obviously depends on the time signature of the song.

CPT— This is where you specify the CPT position of the beginning and end. CPT is short for “Clock Pulse Time”, the smallest step unit used by the VA-76.

(There are 120 CPTs to every beat of a bar.) Change this setting only if your edit operation should not commence or end exactly on the selected beat.

Erase NOTE From 2.1.0 To 4.1.0

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