VA-76 Owner’s ManualSong Composer (16-track, etc.)

5.Press the [From] field to go to the next page.

Here, you can listen to the song you wish to convert. Press the [PLAY ®] field to start playback.

[√√ BWD] and [FFW ®®] are also available. The [ON/OFF] fields denote the tracks that contain data. Press an [ON] field to switch off (“mute”) a track you do not want to hear. This is only for checking pur- poses. The on/off status does not influence the selec- tion of the data that will be converted.

The tracks in white squares have been assigned to User Style tracks and can be converted. The num- bers 1~16 refer to SMF tracks, while the [Track] field and the [TEMPO/DATA] dial allow you to select one or all User Style tracks for conversion. That explains why the tracks you can select with [Track] are called “ADrums”, “ABass”, etc., rather than “1”, “5”, etc. You can either select the specific track to be converted (“ADrums”, for example), or “ALL”. The first approach (converting individual tracks) forces you to repeat the conversion for all tracks you need in your User Style, but has the advantage that only the tracks you really need will be converted. (Not all User Style patterns need to con- tain data for all eight tracks.) “ALL” converts all tracks surrounded by a white box to the selected User Style pattern.

You also need to specify which measures should be converted. Here, you can only select whole measures.

A:/B:— Use these fields to specify the first (A:) and last (B:) measures to be converted. If you don’t remember the measure numbers, here is a convenient way to set these positions:

Use [√√ BWD] to rewind to a measure that lies before the presumed beginning. Press [PLAY ®] to start playback.

Press the [Mark A] field at the beginning of first mea- sure to be converted and [Mark B] when the VA-76 reaches the last measure to be converted. Alternatively, you can stop playback, use [√√ BWD] and

[FFW ®®] to rewind/fast forward to the desired measures, and set the points while the sequencer is stopped.

Playback loop — Press this field to listen to the selected excerpt repeatedly. The passage between the “A:” and “B:” points will be continuously played back

(looped). This allows you to check whether the last notes of your Style-to-be allow for a smooth transition to other Music Style patterns, or sound natural when the pattern is repeated. Sometimes, quantizing the last few notes of an excerpt may be helpful to avoid includ- ing notes that were played a little ahead of the beat (and are part of the last beat you convert). See

page 151 for details.

6.Press the [To] field to go to the next page.

Here, you can select the destination pattern, i.e. whether the selected excerpt should become a Basic/ Original pattern, an Intro, etc. Note that you cannot select tracks here. Go back to a previous page to do so.

Key— (C, C#, D, Eb, F, F#, G, Ab, A, Bb, B) This parameter allows you to tell your VA-76 what key the track (or tracks) is in. Specifying the right key before converting is crucial for realtime use of a pattern. The chord recognition system of the Arranger is indeed based on the assumption that all patterns are in the key of C.

Thus, whenever you play a C (in Arranger Intelligent mode) or C chord in the chord recognition area, the Arranger will use the original notes of the pattern (no realtime transposition). If that pattern is in F# and if you forget to tell the VA-76 that it is, F# is what you will hear when you play a C or C chord in Arranger mode.

Note: There is no need to specify the key for ADR tracks.

Mode— Allows you to select the mode of your pat- tern: “M” (major), “m” (minor) or “7” (seventh). Choose the mode that matches the chord being used in the excerpt.

Type— Allows you to select the pattern Type. See page 95 for details.

Division— Allows you to select the Division of the pattern: Or (Original) or Var (Variation), FO (Fill-In To Original), FV (Fill-In To Variation), In (Intro), or Ed (Ending). Furthermore, by selecting an option indicated by “=”, you create several patterns at once. That is what we call “cloning”, see also page 166.

Execute— After setting the above parameters, press Part Select [UPPER1] to launch the conversion. As you see in the right-most field, your User Style will be temporarily stored in the VA-76’s Style RAM memory (D88).

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