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VA-76 – Keyboard MIDI, Style MIDI, Song MIDI

exactly like the Free Panel buffer for User Programs: it is a buffer memory where your changes are stored temporarily. The VA-76’s ROM chip also contains pre- set settings for this memory: those are the ones you select by pressing the [Factory Resume] field. See page 196 for a more detailed description. The explana- tions about the User Programs there are also true of the MIDI Sets and Macro Settings.

After setting the MIDI parameters, you may wish to write them to a MIDI Set (see page 207), so that they can be recalled when required. Selecting another MIDI Set may have a drastic effect on the way your VA-76 behaves in a MIDI setup.

What’s next?

After performing step (3) above, you will notice four fields in the bottom row of the display.

4.Press one of these fields to select the desired part group or the Utility functions:

Refers to the			Song Composer
Keyboard parts				parts
	Refers to the Arran-				Synchronization &
		ger parts			other more refined
					parameters

5.On the first three pages (Keyboard MIDI, Style MIDI, Song MIDI), use the [i][m] fields in the left column to select the part whose MIDI parameters you wish to set.

6.Press the parameter fields in the “TX” or “RX” col- umn and choose the desired setting with the VALUE [i][m] fields at the center of the display.

You can also use the [TEMPO/DATA] dial.

TX is short for “transmission” (the data the VA-76 sends), while RX refers to “reception”.

Press the [Default] field to select the preset (factory) values for the selected parameter.

14.3Keyboard MIDI, Style MIDI, Song MIDI

→[MIDI] field→ [Keyboard MIDI] field

→[MIDI] field→ [Style MIDI] field

→[MIDI] field→ [Song MIDI] fieldKeyboard parts: [FUNCTION MENU]Style parts: [FUNCTION MENU]Song parts: [FUNCTION MENU]

Seeing that these three pages feature the same parame- ters, we will discuss them together. Just remember to press the right field.

Part (left column)— This is where you select the part whose MIDI settings you wish to change. The select- able parts are:

Field	Available parts
Keyboard MIDI	Upper1, Upper2, Lower1, Lower2, M.Bass,
	M.Drums, MEL Int,	, Audio In
Style MIDI	ADrums, ABass, Acc1~Acc6
Song MIDI	Part 1~Part 16

The Song parts are 16 additional parts that are avail- able at all times for MIDI control. Of course, these parts are also used by the Song Composer and the 16- track Sequencer, in which case they also transmit data.

Channel (1~16)— Allows you to assign a MIDI receive (RX) or transmit channel (TX).

Note: Unless you have a very good reason to do otherwise, we suggest you always select the same TX (transmit) and receive (RX) channel numbers for a part.

Press the [Tx ON] or [Rx ON] field in the left column to select “Off” if the selected part must not transmit or receive MIDI data.

Shift— (–48~48) This parameter allows you to trans- pose the received or transmitted note messages before sending them to the VA-76’s tone generator (RX) or an external instrument (TX). You could change the pitch of the received MIDI note messages, which may be useful if you are used to playing a song (that is being received via MIDI) in another key than the one the data were programmed in. The maximum possible transposition is four octaves up (48) or down (–48), each step representing a semitone.

Local

(On, Off – TX only) Set Local to On (default setting) whenever you want the VA-76 to respond to the notes you play on the keyboard. Setting Local to Off means that the part in question no longer controls the inter- nal tone generator. When working with a sequencer

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