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VA-76 – Listening to Standard MIDI Files
3.6 Listening to Standard MIDI
Files
Standard MIDI Files are sequences almost any
sequencer can read. Though you can use your VA-76
as “playback machine” of such Standard MIDI Files, it
is also possible to mute the melody part and to play it
yourself.
1. Insert the supplied Zip™ disk into the appropriate
drive (the one below the keyboard).
Note: While Zip disks are too large for the floppy drive, be
careful never to insert a floppy disk into the Zip drive as
that may damage the drive or its heads.
2. If necessary, press the [START/STOP] button to
stop Arranger playback.
3. Press the [SONG COMPOSER] button.
The display now looks as follows:
(There may be a different name or no name at all in
the upper white field on your VA-76.)
4. Press the [Song List] field.
Wait for the Zip (or floppy) drive to read what is on
the disk.
5. If the [ZIP] field is not displayed in white, press it.
6. Use the [o][k] fields to select the next or previous
group of four songs if the one you want to listen to is
not displayed.
You can also use the [TEMPO/DATA] dial for doing
so.
7. Press a song field to select the song you want to lis-
ten to.
The RAM information field is still empty.
That is because the selected song has not yet been
loaded into the VA-76’s RAM memory and thus can-
not be played back straight away.
8. Press the [Load] field.
This time, the name of the selected song is displayed in
the RAM information field.
9. Press the [PLAY ®] field to start playback.
If you like, you can now play along to this Standard
MIDI File. The Arranger, however, cannot be used
while the Song Composer is running.
10. Press the [STOP ■|√] field to stop playback.
If you like, you can press the [oBack] field to return
to the initial Song Composer page:
You can then use [√√ BWD] and [FFW ®®] to
rewind to an earlier measure or fast forward to a later
one. See “Song Composer clinic” on page 65, for
details.
You could also press the [EXIT] field to return to the
Master page, though that would not be practical.
• During Song Composer playback the Master page
looks as follows:
Pressing the [Song] field takes you back to the display
page where you can select another song. However, on
the Master page you cannot control Song Composer
playback (Start, Stop, REW, FFW, etc.).
RAM information field
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