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VA-76 – Sampling your own phrases
6. Press the SAMPLING [CAPTURE] button.
The display now looks more or less as follows:
7. Press the [A] or [B] field to select the desired User
Phrase group.
8. Press a Phrase memory field (so that it is displayed
in white).
9. Press the [Capture] field.
Try to select a field that reads NO PHRASE. Memories
of that name indeed contain no data.
If all memories are occupied by previously loaded
phrases, press a field that contains a phrase you no
longer need, then press the [Delete] field. The display
responds with:
Press [YES] to erase the selected User memory. Press
[oBack] to return to the previous page and select
another memory. Press [NO] to abort the sampling
process.
The display now looks more or less as follows:
10. Enter a name for the phrase you are about to cre-
ate.
See page 68.
11. Press the [EXECUTE] field.
The display now looks more or less as follows:
12. Press the [TEMPO/TAP] button at the desired
tempo, or set the tempo value using the [TEMPO/
DATA] dial.
You can also specify the tempo value of the phrase at a
later stage (see page 75). But if you do it here, you
won’t have to worry about the tempo at a later stage.
Besides, setting the correct tempo also allows you to
take advantage of the metronome.
13. (Optional) Press the Metronome [OFF] field to
activate the metronome.
Check the Capturing Free Area field
If the value is less than “4 s”, it would be a good idea
to delete a User phrase you have already saved to
disk (see page 76) to free up sampling memory.
Most audio phrases indeed require about four sec-
onds. If the remaining time is less than this value,
your sample may be stopped prematurely, which
means that you won’t be able to record the entire
audio phrase.
a) Press the [oBack] field twice.
b) On the display page that appears now (Phrase
Source), press the field of a User phrase you no
longer need so that it is displayed in white.
Note: Be careful not to select the memory you have just
selected for sampling, for that won’t help you recover any
memory capacity, because that memory is still empty.
c) Press the [Delete] field to dispose of that phrase.
d) Press the [Capture] field again.
About the phrase RAM memory
The total duration available for all 16 User Vari-
Phrase memories is ±54 seconds. The required
capacity is allocated intelligently. If you work with
long phrases, however, you may not be able to take
advantage of all 16 memory locations.
Here is an example: if User phrase A1 is 30 seconds
long, while A2 uses 14 seconds, and A3 10 seconds,
you’ve already used up the available 54 seconds, so
that memories A4~B8 are of no use to you.
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