VA-76
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Page
Features
Lyrics display
Unpacking your VA-76
Compatibility note
Useful options
Important notes
Important notes
Contents
Registrations User Programs
Song Composer 16-track, etc
Programming User Styles
Mixer, effects and editing
Miscellaneous
FX Types & controllable parameters
Front panel
Panel descriptions
Orchestrator button
Jkeyboard Mode section
Disk indicator
Display
TEMPO/TAP button
VariPhrase section
Super Tones buttons
Data button
Ribbon controller
Floppy disk drive
BENDER/MODULATION lever
Zip drive
Rear panel
Listening to the demo songs
Setting up and demo songs
Set the Volume knob to the MIN position
Audio connections
If you selected ALL Demo
If you selected Style Demo
If you selected Tone Demo If you selected VariPhrase Demo
Keyboard parts
Scratching the surface
General idea
Easy Routing quick registration
Start playing on the VA-76
Here is how it is structured
If you press the As a Soloist field, there are two options
Press the i Panel Info field
Master
Which button does what? Panel Info
Press the Function Menu button
Press the Variation button
Using the VA-76’s Arranger
Set the Volume knob to a reasonable level e.g. about 1/4
Press the START/STOP button to start Arranger playback
Professional transitions Fill
Intro & Ending
If the TEMPO/TAP button does not light, press it
Adding a melody to the accompaniment
Changing the tempo
Balance if the melody is too soft or too loud
Press another Super Tones button
Selecting sounds for the right hand
Super Tones
Play a few notes in the right half of the keyboard
If you press the third field, the display looks as follows
Using VariPhrases
One Touch
Press the ONE Touch button
Press the Variphrase Melodic button so that it lights
Press the Play field to start playback
Listening to Standard Midi Files
Press the Song List field
Press the Load field
Feel free to use the performance functions see
Minus One playback
On the Song Composer page, press the Minus One field
UP1 linked to Song
Arranger and Piano modes
Keyboard Mode clinic
Settings affected by the Keyboard Mode Arranger button are
VA-76 clinics
What are ‘parts’?
Split point in Arranger mode
Using the Whole Keyboard Mode
Other
Using the Split Keyboard Mode
Switching parts on and off
Tone selection via the front panel
Tone clinic
Selecting Tones for the Keyboard parts
Let us briefly summarize the various Tone categories
Specify the part for which you want to select another Tone
Press the Tone field to return to the Tone selec- tion
Tone selection via the display
Press the Tone field in the display
Press the Part field in the lower left corner of the display
Press the 8 Trem Organ field to select that Varia- tion
Press the Variations field to call up the following display
On the Tone selection page, press the Map field
Selecting different Tone Maps
Alternatively…
Drumming on the keyboard
Word about the new Tones
Play a few notes on the keyboard to try out the drum sounds
Setting the Roll resolution speed
Roll
Press the MDR field
Select the MDR part
Selecting Drum Sets for the MDR part
Selecting other phrases for playing
Switching on the VariPhrase part
See page 59 for how to select Music Styles
VariPhrase clinic
Key Assign
Combining/splitting a VariPhrase with another Keyboard part
Playing with the VariPhrases
Press the Mono field Press Exit to return to the Master
Here’s how to select the Mono mode
Press the Mode MONO/POLY button to make it light
Trigger
Other controllers
Adding realtime expression
Things you ought to know about VariPhrase
Beam controller
Display now looks more or less as follows
Realtime VariPhrase control via the display
On any of the above pages, press the Single Part field
Adding effects to the VariPhrase part
Reverb and Chorus depth
Single Part/Palette
Move your hand over the eyes while playing something
Expression clinic
Beam Controller
Example Flamenco Roll
Pitch Bend/Modulation
Ribbon controller Touch control
Aftertouch
Transposition is indicated on the Master
Setting the transposition interval via the display
Transposition
Selecting the sections to be transposed
FC-7 Foot Controller
Octave
PAD buttons
Expression Foot Pedal
Sustain Footswitch Hold
Foot Switch
Scale Tuning
Count-In
Metronome Mode
Metronome
Metronome Output
OFF- The count-in function is off
Using live vocals
You can also add Reverb and Chorus to your voice
Single Part
You should now be able to hear your voice
Each Style group contains eight banks
Arranger/Music Style clinic
Selecting Music Styles
Style selection via the front panel
Press the Style field in the display
Style selection via the display
Working with the Disk Link memories
Disk User
Start playing with the newly selected Style
Orchestrator and Morphing
Ejecting the Zip disk
Orchestrator
Do one of the following
See Using the VA-76’s Arranger on
Morphing
Press the 1st Style field in the display
See steps 1 and 2 above Press the 2nd Style field
Press the Drum field in the right column
Press the Bass field in the right column
Recording your music
Song Composer clinic
Press the Stop √ field twice
Redoing the melody 2nd Trk
Listening to your song
Count-In and/or metronome
If you’re ready, press the Play field to start recording
Saving your song to disk
Press the Song Name field Enter the name
If your disk is not formatted either for VA series
Your brand-new song a name
Instrument or for MS-DOS, the following message
Press the Phrase field in the left column
Playing with the User memories
Loading VariPhrases, VariPhrase Sets or audio files
If you press Single Phrase
If you press Phrase Set
Input Over indicator must never light
Sampling your own phrases
Selecting a User memory
See
About the phrase RAM memory
Press the Sampling Capture button
Enter a name for the phrase you are about to cre- ate
Press the Edit field
Phrase Edit touching up the audio material
Truncate
Press the Preview field to listen to your sample
Press Execute to change the level of the selected phrase
Normalize
Use the im fields to set the desired Normalize percentage
Press the Encode field
Encoding the phrase
Original Key
Method 2 entering the tempo value right away
Event Sense
Insert a Zip disk into the Zip drive and press the ZIP field
Saving your VariPhrase
Press Save
Press the Pitch field to select the following
Phrase Parameters
Pitch
Coarse Tune
Phrase Ctrl
Amplitude
Portamento
Pan
Start
Time Sw
Mode
Type portamento type
Trigger
Global VariPhrase functions
Key Assign
Playback
Mode
Controller functions for the VariPhrase part
Pause
Selecting the foot switch function
Truly global VariPhrase parameters
Style Linked Phrase Select
Double Speed On BPM Lower Than
Sync Settings
Sync Adjust
Here’s how to set the tempo value
More about the Super Tones
Upper1 functions
Press the Execute field to save your choice
Upper2 functions
UP1 Linked to Song
Upper 2 Split
Press the Options field
Both must be displayed in white
Press the UP2 Split field
Part and use the VariPhrase part instead so as to
Tuning Upper2 Coarse and Fine
‘Dynamic’ second split point UP2 to Left
Splitting Upper2 and the VariPhrase part
That field is displayed in white
Portamento Upper 1-2 Portam
Portam Time
Assigning the Lower Hold function
Portamento Mode Mono/Poly
LWR Hold
Key Touch
Velocity switching Min and Max
Velocity sensitivity
Consider the following example
Scale Tuning
Press a Mem 1~Mem 3 field to select a Scale Tuning memory
But let us not return to the Master page just yet
Changing the pitch of other notes
Storing your new scale
Customizing the pitch changes Pitch Edit
Page
Stopping a Music Style
More about the Arranger
Arranger and Music Styles
Starting a Music Style
Sync Stop
Selecting other Style divisions
Sync Options
Use the im fields to select Arranger
Using Aftertouch to select Arranger patterns
Fill In Half Bar
Major, minor, seventh
Select the following display
Style Morphing part
Press the Melody Intell button so that it lights
Melody Intelligence
One Touch
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Ignoring certain One Touch settings Cancel Options
While on the One Touch page, press the Cancel Options field
Programming your own Tone selections Memorize
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More refined Arranger settings
ARRanger Hold
Chord recognition area
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Arranger Chord Mode
Bass Inversion
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Dynamic Arranger
RIT and ACC
Arranger Options
Arranger Tempo
Fill Ritardando
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Chord Family Assign, Alteratn
While still holding those keys, press the CAP- Ture field
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Intro& Ending Alteration
Musical Style playback Wrap
Use the TEMPO/DATA dial to select on or OFF
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Selecting Tones for the Arranger parts
About the lock
Press the Options field Press the Disk Link field
Working with Styles on Disk
Programming your own Disk Link assignments
Press the Style button or the Style field on the Master
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Find locating Styles on a Zip disk
Press the Find field
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Rename Style Options
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Style Delete
Press the Delete field to call up the following
Press the YES field to go ahead and delete the Style
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Mixer, effects and editing
Structure of the Mixer pages
Via sliders on so-called palette pages
About the Audio In part
Volume and pan
Global Volume
Use a Single Part
PanPot stereo position
Keybrd Mixer volume of the Keyboard parts
Style Mixer volume of the Arranger parts
Muting parts
Man
Output Assign
More locks
On the Single Part page, press the Auto/ Man field
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Applying Reverb, Chorus, or Delay to a part
Effects and Equalizer
Above example, the Keyboard Parts section has been selected
Select the effects parameters you wish to edit
Effects settings
Press the Reverb field and modify the Reverb send level
Number of types depends on the selected effect
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This is where you can edit the Reverb effects processor
Reverb types & Parameters
Chorus types & Parameters
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Delay types & Parameters
Equalizer
Realtime control via the display
Using the insertion effect
Insertion effect M-FX
Choosing the parts to be processed by the equalizer
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FX Selection Mode automatic Tone link for Upper1
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Assigning the M-FX to a Keyboard part
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Selecting an M-FX type
FX Send processing the M-FX with the other effects
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VariPhrase and Audio In effects
VariPhrase/Audio In Reverb types
VariPhrase/Audio In Chorus types
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Settings make it slower
Modulation Vibrato
Here are the Part parameters you can edit
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Timbre TVF
Envelope
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Writing your settings to a User Program
See above for what to do then
Free Panel memory can be selected in two ways
Selecting User Programs
Free Panel
Selecting a User Program Group, Bank, Number
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Selecting User Programs using the Downup buttons
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Automatic functions for User Programs
Song & Midi Set Link
Linking a Song to a User Program
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User Program selection at power-on
Linking a Midi Set to a User Program
If you don’t want a User Program to be recalled, select Off
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Song Composer the basics
Formatting a disk
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Song List searching songs on disk Find
Before recording
Play & Search finding Songs by playing a few notes
If you make a mistake, proceed as follows to correct
Song playback functions
Lyrics function
Play the notes of the Song you want the VA-76 to find
Soloing and muting parts
Fast Forward, Rewind, and Reset
Loop playback Markers
Changing the song tempo
Muting tracks/MIDI channels
Using the metronome
Press the Solo field again to switch off the solo function
Song/Keyboard-part balance
Proceed as follows
Song Chains
Transpose
Compiling or editing a Song Chain
Press the Play field to start playback of your Song Chain
Playing back a Song Chain
Display on your VA-76 may look slightly differ- ent
To play back a Song Chain, proceed as follows
Press the Rename or Delete field
Chain Mode
Song Options
Deleting a Song Chain
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Input
Press the Execute field to save this information to Zip disk
Tracks and Midi channels
11.1 16-track Sequencer
General considerations
Selecting the 16-track sequencer
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Selecting the Recording Mode and the first mea- sure
Example 1 Recording a track
Press the Tone field in the upper left corner
Selecting a Tone or Drum Set
Press the Octave field
Press the Quantize field and set the desired reso- lution
Want some effects?
Volume Level
Recording in Erase or Merge mode
Recording in Punch In/Out mode
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Using two drum tracks 2nd Drum Track
Saving your song
Example 2 Recording a song from scratch
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Initializing only track 13 for VariPhrase use
All tracks will be initialized as follows
Easy editing and useful functions
Editing 16-track songs
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In-depth editing of a 16-track song
Available options for ‘Note’
Erase
From/To, Bar, Beat, CPT- See
Data Type
Delete
Insert
From/To & Bar, Beat, CPT- See
Transpose
Velocity
Bar, Beat, CPT- See
From, To, Bar, Beat, CPT- See
Gate T
Shift
From, To, Bar, Beat, CPT, Execute- See page 148 for
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Utility other useful functions
Change
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Volume, Expression, Reverb, Chorus -127~
Copy
Name
Mode Replace, Merge- Selects the Copy mode
See page 68 for how to enter names
Exchange
General considerations
Using the Style Converter
Style Converter
Initialize
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Press the From field to go to the next
151 for details
Press the To field to go to the next
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Edit Lyrics
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Now you’re all set for the synchronization work
Press the Lyrics Synchro field
Playback and Lyric synchronization recording start
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‘Utility’ functions for Edit Lyrics
Deleting a text file on disk
Go to the TXT Import
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Exporting the Lyrics data as text file
Save without Lyrics
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Header Post Edit
You can do this for all 16 song parts
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Tracks
Programming User Styles
Concept
Patterns
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Looped vs one-shot
Selecting the track, the Mode, the Type and the Division
Recording User Styles from scratch
Selecting the User Style Composer
Working with clones
Record mode
Specifying the key
Quantize
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Tone selection
Time signature
Length specifying the pattern length
As you see the bar values are now surrounded by a box
Cloning and edit functions and possible warnings Shared
Press the Length field. The display now looks like this
Press the BAR field
Press the Master field in the upper left corner
Tempo
Recording
Audition your pattern and then keep or redo?
Naming your User Style
Saving your Style to disk
Programming other parts and divisions
Muting parts while recording others
Metronome and Count-In
Playback in Arranger mode
Remarks
Working from top to bottom programming hints
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Copying entire Styles using Load all tracks
Copying existing Styles
Copying individual Style tracks
Animated clock tells you that the data are being copied
Copy mode
To use another Style on disk…
From
Adding notes in realtime
Adding or changing settings of existing parts
Editing User Styles
Editing on the fly by recording
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On the above display page, select the ADrums track
You can play on the keyboard to listen to the result
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Setting the preset tempo
Length
See also Length specifying the pattern length on
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User Style Edit mode
Time Signature
Use the TEMPO/DATA dial to set the desired time signature
Track, Mode, Type, Division- See page 178 for
Erase
Delete
From Note/Than Note, To Note- See
From Note, To Note- See
Insert
Velocity
Track, Mode, Type, Division- See page 178 for details
From, To, Bar, Beat, CPT- See page 178 for details
Gate T
Shift
Details
See page 178 for details
User Style Micro mode
Change
Auditioning the pattern
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Move Mix
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User Style Utility
Copy Mix
Copy
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Name
Execute- Press this field to copy the data
Available controllers are
Miscellaneous
Beam
Selecting the desired parameter
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Pitch Bender
Modulation
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Touch Control Ribbon
Parameters for Keyboard parts excluding the VariPhrase part
Best way to proceed is as follows
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Sustain Switch CC64
Parameters for the VariPhrase part
Parameters for Arranger control
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No function for a part Off
Volume control Expression
Press m to have access to the Arranger parts
Foot Pedal Expression
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13.2 FC-7 & Pad parameters
FX Value 1/2
Formant Up/Down
Off- The PAD button in question has no function at all
Hold Lower1, Hold Lower2, and Hold Lower 1- 2 on
Jump to the FC-7 and PAD display page see
Use the TEMPO/DATA dial to select the desired function
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Global parameters for the entire VA-76
Tone Recall
Bass Inversion See PAD
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Main Factory Resume settings
Factory Resume
Virtual Band Autorun
Midi messages used by the VA-76
Midi
Midi in general
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Control change messages
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About Midi implementation charts
Master Volume Universal System Exclusive- This
System Exclusive messages
How-to’s…
Preparations for using the Midi functions
Receiving Midi data RX
Transmitting Midi data TX
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Keyboard MIDI, Style MIDI, Song Midi
What’s next?
Local
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Limit
Filter
Tx Filter page of the Style parts
Song TX Sync
Utilities Midi
Midi Sync RX/TX
Style TX Sync
On/Off
Basic
Style
Style RX Sync, Song RX Sync
Midi parameters Param
NTA Note-to-Arranger
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PartSwtc
Rx Velocity, Tx Velocity
SoftThru for Local
Selecting a Midi Set
Midi Set selection at power-on
Midi Sets
Saving a Midi Set
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Loading a Midi Set from disk
Load Style/copy Style
Disk functions
Autoload
Disk Load loading data from disk
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Load User Prg
Load Midi Set
Load Phrase
Save User Program Set
Disk Save saving data to disk
Save Style
Save Song
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Save Midi Set
Save Phrase
To save a VariPhrase Set, press the Phrase Set field
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Delete Disk Utility
Format
Press the field that corresponds to the desired option
Display now responds with Insert Source Protected
Copy functions
Copying an entire floppy disk to another floppy
Press the From FDD→ To FDD field
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Copying from Zip to floppy disk example copy- ing Styles
Press the field of the file you wish to rename
Copying other file types
Rename
Copying VariPhrases or VariPhrase Sets between disks
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Specifications
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FX Types & controllable parameters
Chorus Effects
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55 DS→ Delay
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Reference
Tones
VA-76 Tones
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UFO FX
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Tone Map
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Drum Sets
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Orchestra Ethnic
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Gamelan SFX Rhythm FX
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GM2 Analog GM2 Jazz
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GM2 SFX
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Standard Room
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HipHop Jungle
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TR-707 Closed Hi-Hat EXC1 Closed Hi-Hat
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VA-76 Drum Sets
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SFX Rhythm FX
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Rhythm FX CM-64/32L Standard Room Power Electronic
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250
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Internal Music Styles
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Chord Intelligence
VA-76 Chord Intelligence
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Midi Implementation Chart
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Index
Numerics
Index
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257
START/STOP
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259
260
261
262
263
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265
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