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VA-76 – Arranger and Music Styles
7.1 Arranger and Music Styles
Think of the Arranger’s Music Styles as your backing
band. Your VA-76 is indeed capable of playing several
“versions” of a given accompaniment. All you need to
do is make up your mind about the kind of music you
want to play and to select a Music Style that comple-
ments it. You can choose how many bars there are to
each song part and how the melody and/or solo
should be accompanied.
Arranger parts
Each accompaniment (or Music Style) can consist of
up to eight parts:
A. Drums (or ADR): Accompaniment Drums. This
part takes care of the rhythm. It triggers the drum and
percussion sounds of the Drum Set assigned to the
ADR part.
A. Bass (or ABS): Accompaniment Bass. This part
plays the bass line of the Music Style you selected.
Ac1~Ac6: These are the melodic accompaniment
parts. Depending on the Music Style you selected, only
a few of them actually play something, which can be
anything from a piano line, a guitar line, an organ line
to a synth pad line. Not all Accompaniment parts play
chords.
The ABS and Ac parts rely on the chord or note infor-
mation you play in the chord recognition area (see
page 101), i.e. the keyboard zone you assign to the
Arranger.
Starting a Music Style
Music Styles can be started in several ways:
1.
Press the Keyboard Mode [ARRANGER] button.
2.
Press the [START/STOP] button (so that it lights)
to start the Arranger right away.
If you start the Arranger without playing a chord in
the chord recognition area, you will only hear the
drums of the selected Music Style. In most cases, how-
ever, the VA-76 has already memorized a chord, so
that you will hear the full accompaniment.
OR:
3.
Stop playback of the current Style (see below),
press the [INTRO] button (so that it lights) and then
the [START/STOP] button to start Style playback
with a musical introduction.
The length of the Intro depends on the Style you
selected. At the end of the Intro, the Arranger starts
playing the Music Style division you select while the
Intro is being played. In other words, you can select
whichever Type (Orchestrator Basic and Advanced)
and Division (Original, Variation) you like to be
played upon completion of the Intro.
OR:
4.
Press the [SYNC] button (if it currently controls
the Start function, see below) and play a chord (or
just one note in Intelligent mode, see page 102). The
Arranger starts as soon as you play a note in the
chord recognition area (see page 101).
Note: Do not play chord changes while the Intro is running.
Unlike the “normal” patterns (Original, Variation), Intro
patterns usually contain chord changes. Chord recognition
is not deactivated during Intro playback, so that the begin-
ning of a song may jump from one key to another.
Note: You can also start and stop the Arranger with the D
Beam Controller (see page 187).
Stopping a Music Style
There are three ways to stop Style playback:
1.
Press [START/STOP] to stop playback right away.
OR:
2.
Press [ENDING] (so that it lights) to activate the
Ending function. The Ending (or coda) pattern will
start at the beginning of the next measure (next
downbeat).
Note: Do not play chord changes while the Ending is run-
ning. Unlike the “normal” accompaniments (Original,
Variation), Ending patterns usually contain chord changes.
Chord recognition is not deactivated during Intro or Ending
playback, so that the ending of a song may jump from one
key to another.
OR:
3.
Press [SYNC] and release all keys in the chord rec-
ognition area of the keyboard. The accompaniment
stops immediately.
There is no need to restart Style playback manually if
you also activate Sync Start (see below). Sync Stop is
only available if you activate it. See “Sync (Options)”.
7. More about the Arranger
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