11
Rename a Performance ....................................... 62
Copy P erformances ........................................... 62
Saving the edited P er formance List ...........................63
Filt ering Performance Memories Settings (Lock function) .....63
Why is it Con venient to Use F ilters (L ock F unction)? ........... 63
Which Par ameter Can you F ilter? ..............................63
How to Switch F ilters On/O Directly by P anel ................ 63
16. Using Audio Phr ases (Audio K ey) ..........................65
Creating an Audio Key Set ...................................65
Initialize the Audio Key Internal Memory (M ake
New) ............................................65
Using an Audio Drum L oop ...............65
Using the FC-7 footswitch unit Board ......65
Assign audio les to the various keys . ............66
Specifying the audio phrase length. ..............66
Fine T uning. .....................................67
Synchronizing the Audio P hrase Loop with the
Rhythm Loop. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Assigning a Name to Y our new Audio Phr ase .................68
Basic playback functions for your phrases ....................68
Special playback functions ..................................69
Saving and loading Audio Key Sets ..........................70
Saving your new or edited A udio Key Set .........70
Loading an Audio Key Set ........................70
Playing Back your Phr ases ...................................71
Synchronize y our Phrases with the Start of Rhythm Playback .71
Synchronize y our Phrases with the Start and Stop of Rhythm
Playback ......................................................71
How to Save and r ecall an Audio Key Set into a P erformance ..71
How to Use the Audio Key Set in the MIDI Data Rec order . .....72
17. Adding pictures to the music ..............................73
Displaying photos automatically .............................73
Enjoying a VIMA TUNES slide show ...........................73
Enjoying a slide show of your own pictures ...................73
Using one of your own pictures as backgr ound ...............74
‘User’ background and slide shows ...............74
Picture display and song lyrics ...................74
18. Recording your P erformance ..............................75
Recording your P erformance as Audio Data ..................75
Recording .....................................................75
Listening to your r ecording ...................................76
Recording your own as w ell as your Band’ s Performances ....76
Recording your P erformance as MIDI Data ...................76
T racks, MIDI channels and 16- Tr ack Sequencer . ...............78
19. Recording a Chord Sequence ( Chord L oop) ................79
“Realtime” chord sequencing (Loop Mode) ...................79
Recording a Chords Sequence f or an Entire Song
(Sequencer Mode). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .79
Playing back a Chords Sequence .............................79
Saving the Chords Sequence ................................79
Loading a Chords Sequence .................................80
20. W orking with the 16- T rack Sequencer .....................81
Impor tant Things Bef ore Using 16- Track Sequencer . ..........81
Selecting the 16-T rack Sequencer ............................81
About the sequencer’ s main pages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .81
Left display ...................................................81
Right display .................................................81
MUTE & SOL O function ..........................81
Recording a Song from Scratch ..............................81
Initialize a Song ...............................................81
Before Starting to Record .....................................82
Recording an Existing Song ..................................83
Saving Y our Song. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .84
If Y ou Leave the 16- Track Sequencer Without Save Y our Song. 84
Editing one or several tracks (Track Edit) .....................84
QU ANTIZE ....................................................85
ERASE .........................................................86
DELETE .......................................................86
COP Y .........................................................87
INSERT ........................................................87
KEY ( T ranspose) ...............................................88
CHANGE VEL OCITY ...........................................88
CHANGE GA TE TIME ..........................................89
MERGE ........................................................89
GL OBAL CHANGE .............................................90
SHIFT CL OCK ..................................................90
TRACK EX CHANGE ............................................91
Editing Song using Micro Edit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .91
Other edit operations .........................................92
Create Ev ent ....................................92
Erase Event ......................................92
Move E vent .....................................92
Copy Ev ent and Place Even t ......................93
Editing the Master T rack .....................................93
Other edit operations .........................................95
Create Ev ent ....................................95
Erase Event ......................................95
Move E vent .....................................95
Copy Ev ent and Place Even t ......................96
21. How to Edit Rhythm or SMF (M ak e u p T o o l s ) ................97
Using the Makeup T ools .....................................97
Paramet ers in the “Palette page ” : ................97
T one (T ), Drum (D ) .......................98
Mute (T )/Drum Mute (D ) .................98
Solo ......................................98
Per c Mute (D ) ............................98
V olume ...................................98
Reverb ...................................98
Chorus ...................................98
Panpot ...................................98
Octave (T ) ................................98
V elocity ..................................98
Cut O ...................................98
Resonance ...............................98
Attack (T ) ................................99
Decay (T ) .................................99
Release (T ) ...............................99
Vibrato Rate (T ) ...........................99
Vibrato Depth (T ) .........................99
Vibrato Dela y (T ) .........................99
Mfx ......................................99
Mfx T ype .................................99
Mfx Edit ..................................99
Equalizer .................................99
Edit EQ ...................................99
Drum Instrument (D ) ....................100
Undo Changes ..........................100
Common ................................................... 101
T o commit your changes (Fr eeze Data) ..................... 101
Saving Y our New Rhythm or Song (SMF) Version in USB
Memory .................................................. 101
22. Rhythm Composer .......................................103
What are Rhythms? ........................................ 103
Patt erns (Divisions) .............................103
T racks ..........................................103
Looped vs. one-shot patterns ...................103
Several drum tracks are possible ................103
Starting to Make your Own R hythm ........................ 103
Getting ready for the rst track ..................104
Recording a rhythm pattern ....................106
Saving your Rhythm ........................................ 106
Recording Other T racks and Divisions ....................... 107
Muting tracks while recording others ....................... 107
Solo ............................................108
T ry the Rhythm Outside of the Composer .................. 108
Rhythm T rack Edit functions ............................... 108
Quantize .......................................109
Erase ...........................................109
Delete .........................................110
Copy ...........................................111
Inser t ..........................................112
Key (transposition) .............................112
Change V elocity ................................113
Change Gate Time ..............................113