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VA-76 Owner’s Manual—Programming User Styles

c)Press the [REC] field(s) below the slider(s) whose setting(s) you want to record. Those [REC] fields must be displayed in white.

d)Either use the on-screen-sliders or touch a slider name and use the [TEMPO/DATA] dial for setting the desired value. (You can also use the [DATA] but- ton/Numeric Entry pad.)

The Reverb and Chorus settings represent Send values (see page 116). The effect settings (Type, Character, etc.) can only be saved to a User Program. In other words, a Music Style’s character may change depend- ing on the User Program you select.

You can create interesting panning effects by slowly shifting the selected track from left to right (or vice versa) in the course of a pattern. This is especially effective for synthesizer or guitar riffs. Continuous changes mean that you have to keep recording until the end of the pattern.

Expression (control change CC11) is a subsidiary vol- ume message that works relative to the volume (con- trol change CC07) message. Whenever you set Expression to “127” the resulting part volume will be equal to the value specified for Volume (CC07).

The Volume values of the Arranger parts can be set in Mixer (see page 112) mode.

Setting the preset tempo

The preset tempo is the tempo the Arranger selects in One Touch mode. By now, you know that the [TEMPO/DATA] dial and [AUTO/LOCK] function allow you to override the preset Style tempo and save the new tempo value to a User Program. Setting the right preset tempo is useful for those occasions where you wish to use One Touch Program (see page 29).

To program another preset tempo, set it using the [TEMPO/DATA] dial or the [TEMPO/TAP] button, select any part on a User Style Composer page where the [Rec] field in the bottom row is displayed in white, press the [Merge] field, and record one or two beats.

Do not play on the keyboard or use any controllers con- nected to the VA-76, though!

Note: The last tempo value you record automatically becomes the Style’s preset tempo.

Edit functions that are not part of the User Style Edit mode

Length

Press the [Length] field in the left column

The Length function allows you to modify the length (number of bars, beats, and clocks) both before or after recording. If used after recording, the data that lie beyond the specified end will be discarded.

Note: There is no way to recall the previous version, so think twice before executing the Length function.

See also “Length: specifying the pattern length” on page 167.

Track (ADrums~Acc6, All)— Allows you to select the track whose length setting you wish to change. If the length does not have to be the same for all tracks (which goes unnoticed for looped divisions, see “Looped divisions” on page 164), try to use only inte- ger multiples or fractions for longer or shorter tracks (i.e. 4 bars for one track, while the others are 8 bars in length; 3-bar patterns don’t loop well over 4- or 8-bar tracks).

Single— Press this field if you want to select only one pattern of a clone group.

Shared— Press this field to select all shared patterns in one pass. Doing so ensures that clones are always iden- tical to the original.

ALL— Use the [ALL] field to select all patterns on the current display page (i.e., all Original/Variation, Intro/ Ending, or Fill-In To Original/To Variation patterns).

BAR— Press this field and use the [TEMPO/DATA] dial to set the length of the selected pattern(s) in steps of one bar. Note that it is perfectly possible to make an existing track longer by specifying a Bar value that lies beyond the last notes (or current end).

CPT— This is another length value that allows you to “fine tune” the length. In most cases, you will probably work with multiples of notes (i.e. 120CPT) because 120CPT represent one beat of an X/4 bar (1/4, 2/4, 3/ 4, 4/4, etc.). All intermediary steps are selectable, though the musical functionality of “x-bars-and-a- bit” patterns is questionable, to say the least.

EXECUTE— Press this field to apply the new length value to all selected patterns on this page.

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