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

CPT— This is where you specify the CPT position of the beginning and end of the track to be copied. Unless you do not need all notes within the last bar, you should keep the default setting.

Mode (Replace, Merge)— Selects the Copy mode:

Replace: The data in the selected range will be copied to the destination track and overwrite all data (of the destination track) in the selected source track range.

Merge: The data in the selected range will be added to any existing data on the destination track.

In either case, the length of the destination track may change to include all data of the source track. In other words, you may find that the destination track is longer after executing the copy function.

Note: The VA-76 has no Undo function. Saving your song to disk before copying will allow you to load the previous version if something goes wrong.

Destination Track— This is where you select the track to which you want to copy the selected data.

Into— The bar, beat and CPT values the first data of the source track will be copied to.

Times (1~99)— Sets the number of copies you wish to make. The value “3” means that you will end up with 3 contiguous copies, whereby the second copy is placed immediately after the first, etc.

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

Note: Though you can also copy data from track 10 (the main Drum track) to a “music” track, and vice versa, be careful. A drum track sounds odd when played by a piano, for example (and a piano part is not necessarily suited for drumming).

Exchange

Exchange allows you to copy the data of the source track (above) to the destination track (below), and –at the same time– the data from the destination track to the source track.

Track (1~16)— This is where you select the two tracks to be exchanged. Obviously, there is no ALL option here.

Note: Be careful when exchanging a Drum track and a “musical” track. The result may not be what you had in mind.

Name

This page allows you to program the File Name for your song. The “File Name” is the one that you see if you use the dir command on an MS-DOS®computer (all VA-76 disks are MS-DOS®compatible), while the “Song Name” is the name that you will see on the respective display pages. The File Name is more important than the Song Name because the File Name is the one that is written to disk – but it can only be 8 characters in length.

See page 68 for how to enter names.

Note: For MS-DOS® compatibility reasons, only the first eight characters will be saved to disk (it’s impossible to enter more than 8 characters for the File Name). Furthermore, you cannot use the same name twice on the same disk.

Save— Press this field to jump to the Save Song page, where you can save your Song to the desired disk (see page 67). This function is very convenient for saving your new version under a different File Name without overwriting the original. That would leave you with two similar versions on disk. If you like your new ver- sion better (and wish to discard the previous version), do not change the existing File Name.

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