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VA-76 Owner’s Manual—Programming User Styles

Looped vs one-shot

There are two kinds of patterns on the VA-76: looped divisions and one-shot divisions.

Looped divisions— Looped divisions are accompani- ments that are repeated for as long as you do not select another division or press [START/STOP] to stop Arranger playback. The VA-76 provides four pro- grammable looped divisions with three variations each (levels A and C of the Orchestrator function cannot be programmed). Let us agree to call the varia- tions modes:

Division	Mode	Explanation
	Major	As the name implies, this is the
Basic/Original	Minor
		simplest accompaniment.
	Seventh
	Major	Basic/Variation is an alternative for
Basic/Variation	Minor
		the Basic accompaniment.
	Seventh
	Major	An alternative for the Basic level.
		Usually contains more instruments
Advanced/Original	Minor
		but could also be another kind of
	Seventh
		accompaniment for a given style.
	Major	Variation of the Advanced/Original
Advanced/Variation	Minor
		accompaniment.
	Seventh

Looped divisions do not select other divisions when they are finished: they keep playing until you select another division by hand (or by foot with an optional FC-7).

One-shot divisions— One-shot divisions are accom- paniments that are only played once and then select a looped division or stop the Arranger.

Division	Modes	Explanation
Intro	Major	Introduction. Selects the Original
	Minor	division of the level you selected
(Basic or Advanced)
	Seventh	(Basic or Advanced).
Ending	Major	Ending (or coda). As soon as the
	Minor	Ending is finished, the Arranger
(Basic or Advanced)
	Seventh	stops.
Fill-In To Original	Major	A musical transition that selects the
	Minor	Original division of the currently
	Seventh	active level.
	Major	A musical transition that selects the
Fill-In To Variation	Minor	Variation division of the currently
	Seventh	active level.

The type of division (looped or one-shot) affects the way in which the respective tracks are played back. The Arranger will insert the required number of rests for any one-shot track that is shorter than the longest one.

Any track of a looped pattern that is shorter than the longest track, however, will be repeated until the long- est track is finished. In other words, a repetitive phrase of a looped division needs to be recorded only once because it will automatically be repeated until the longest track is finished, after which the entire division (including the “sub-loops”) will be repeated. For instance, if the ADrums part is only four measures long, while the ABass line is eight measures in length, the ADrums part will be repeated once while the Arranger plays measures 5~8 of the bass line.

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