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

The display now changes to:

5.Press the [Edit] field.

This is only possible while Song (or Arranger) play- back is stopped. So be sure to stop playback before pressing [Edit]. Otherwise a “CAN’T EXECUTE” error message is displayed.

Now, we’re going to import the text file you created earlier:

6.Insert the Zip or floppy disk that contains the text file you wish to associate with the Standard MIDI File in the VA-76’s Song RAM memory.

7.Press the [TXT Import] field.

8.Press the [FLOPPY] or [ZIP] field to indicate which drive contains the data with the text file to be imported.

9.If necessary, press the [Import] field.

10.Press the field that contains the name of the desired file.

If you don’t see the desired file name, use [o][k] to select another group of 8 files. (If you still can’t find the desired file, it may not end in “.txt” or not be a text/ASCII file.)

11.Press the [EXECUTE] field to load the desired text file.

12.Press [oBack] to return to the Edit Lyrics page (see above).

Now you’re all set for the synchronization work:

13.Press the [Lyrics Synchro] field.

This display page should contain the first line of the text you imported. (This function can also be used to correct the synchronization of Lyrics data contained in a Tune 1000-format SMF you loaded.)

If you like, you can now use the [PLAY ®],

[STOP √], [√√ BWD], and [FFW ®®] fields to playback and navigate inside your song.

Here’s what we’re going to do: every line of the text we imported can be associated with a given quarter note of the song. We’ll do this while the song is playing back, because that is faster and also more musical. Synchronizing text lines is a matter of pressing the [DATA] button on the beats where they should appear during normal playback of the Standard MIDI File. Every press of the [DATA] button will associate the text line below the arrows (® √) with the quarter note where the button was pressed. The preceding line automatically scrolls above the (® √) section, while the following line will appear below the arrows.

14.Press [STOP ] twice to return to the begin- ning of the song or use [√√ BWD] or [FFW ®®] to jump to a measure that lies a little ahead of the place where the first line should be displayed during normal operation.

15.Press [REC ] (LyricsSync).

16.Press the [PLAY ®] field.

Playback (and Lyric synchronization recording) start.

17.On the beat where the first text line should be dis- played, press the [DATA] button (front panel).

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