VA-76 – Editing 16-track songs

Track (1~16, All)— Allows you to select the track whose data you wish to change. Though you can also select ALL, this should be done with great caution.

If you look carefully at the layout in the center of the display, you will notice that there are two kinds of changes that can be applied:

From/To (0~127, ALL)— Enter the original data value (i.e. the value that is being used right now by the selected track(s)) in the From column. For To, specify the new value that should replace the From value. This is what we call “absolute” changes: you don’t add or subtract a value, you replace it with another.

Inc/Dec— These are so-called “relative” changes: the positive or negative value you set here will be added to or subtracted from the original values of the selected tracks. This works exactly like “Velocity” on page 150, except that it applies to other parameters. Use these fields to globally increase or decrease the existing val- ues.

[Init Value]— Press this field to reset all values on this page to their initial state if you want to start again.

CC00— This control change is the so-called “MSB” Bank Select message. It allows you to select the Capital Tone (select “0”) of a group/bank/number (A11~B88) address if you don’t want to use Variations, or to spec- ify another Variation level. The To value “0” can be useful for ensuring GM compatibility, which (unlike GM2) does not support Tone Variations.

In the Tone lists starting on page 222, you will see that most Tones are Variations. The value “8” for CC00 is probably the most popular one (as you would discover if you spent your time studying the list of 3,646 Tones). Here are a few examples:

GBN

Var

PC

CC00

Name

GBN

Var

PC

CC00

Name

A11

 

1

0

Piano 1

A12

 

2

0

Piano 2

A11

1

1

1

UprightPiano

A12

1

2

1

Pop Piano

A11

2

1

2

Mild Piano

A12

2

2

2

Rock Piano

A11

3

1

8

Piano 1w

A12

3

2

8

Piano 2w

A11

4

1

9

Mild Piano w

A12

4

2

9

Rock Piano w

A11

5

1

16

European Pf

A12

5

2

16

Dance Piano

A11

6

1

24

Piano + Str.

A12

6

2

126

Piano 2

A11

7

1

25

Piano + Str2

A12

7

2

127

Acou Piano2

A11

8

1

26

Piano+Choir1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A11

9

1

27

Piano+Choir2

 

 

 

 

 

A11

10

1

45

MonoAc.Piano

 

 

 

 

 

A11

11

1

46

St.AcPiano 2

 

 

 

 

 

A11

12

1

47

St.AcPiano 1

 

 

 

 

 

A11

13

1

126

Piano 2

 

 

 

 

 

A11

14

1

127

Acou Piano1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To change any value for CC00 to “8”, for example, enter “ALL” for From and “8” (which corresponds to Piano 1w/Piano 2w) for To. To change all instances of the CC00 value “8” to another value (e.g. “16”), enter “8” for From and “16” for To.

Note: Most Song Composer/16-track Sequencer tracks usu- ally only contain one CC00 value.

CC32— This control change is the so-called “LSB” Bank Select message. Most instruments (including your VA-76) use it for specifying different Tone Maps. You may want to use this parameter for changing a

Standard MIDI File in such a way that all tracks use the new Tones. To do so, select “ALL” for From and “4” for To. See also page 41.

PC (Program Change)— Use this parameter to change the group/bank/number address of a Tone (e.g. from “1” to “2”).

Volume, Expression, Reverb, Chorus (–127~

+127)— These parameters allow you to add (+) or subtract (–) a given value to/from the current Volume, Expression, Reverb Send or Chorus Send values. This may come in handy if the realtime changes you recorded (see page 147) turn out to be too high or too low.

Execute— Press this field to confirm your settings and edit the data.

Note: Similar functions are also available for Standard MIDI Files on disk. Though they have the advantage that they are not permanent (and can thus be restored), they are only understood by the VA-76, the VA-7, the VA-5, the VA-3, the G-1000, and the EM-2000. See “Header Post Edit” on page 161.

Copy

The Copy function allows you to copy one track to another track, or excerpts of one or all tracks to a dif- ferent location. The latter is useful if you need to repeat the chorus several times at the end of the song but do not feel like recording all those notes.

Source Track (1~16, All)— Allows you to select the track whose data you wish to copy.

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.

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