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KEY STOP/STYLE REMIX PLAY

When the LED is lit it stops the Arranger performance if a very short note or chord is played. It is restarted if
another one or even the same one is played. If the note or the chord is held down for longer than a quarter note,
the Arranger continues to play. With the Arranger stopped,

KEY STOP

is used to restart it by playing a chord that

is longer than the time set in Sync Time in the Arrange Mode menu. If a

FILL

or an

INTRO

has been selected,

with the Arranger stopped and a chord that is longer than the above mentioned value is played, the whole

FILL

or the

INTRO

will be played, whereas if the chord is very short, the Arranger will stop immediately. If the

KEY

START

LED is lit, as soon as the player takes his hand off the left part of the split point, the Arranger stops and

starts again as soon as a note or a chord is played on the part of the keyboard to the left of the split point. When
in Song Play mode, this push button is used to select the drum track of the Style for the Remix function.

FILL 1, 2, 3

If one of these three push buttons are pressed while the Arranger is in use, one or a number of Fill-Ins will be
played. If the

JUMP FILL

function of the

Left Control

menu is activated, the

FILL 1

and

FILL 2

push buttons

enable the next variation of the style. The

FILL 3

push button will move the style being played back to the pre-

vious variation.

BREAK

This is used to add a Break beat at the end of which the Arranger will start to play again.

TAP

If you tap on this button with a set frequency two times, the VEGA determines the tempo value automatically
(based on how quickly or slowly you were tapping on this button) and uses this new tempo for the arranger
or sequence to be played. The playback of the arranger or sequence will start provided they were in stop or
standby mode prior to tapping on the TAP button. The Tap tempo also can function even if the style is running.

START

When pressed it starts to play the automatic accompaniment. If

START

is pressed while the Arranger is already

playing then everything is stopped, in other words it acts as a Stop push button.

HOLD

When the LED is on the last chord played to the left of the Split point on the keyboard is memorised and kept
active driving the Arranger which carries on playing normally even after the left hand is taken off the keys.
This chord is held as the harmonic basis of all the Arranger parts until a new chord is actually played below
the split point which the Arranger follows by changing the parts to suit. If the LED is switched off, the accom-
paniment will only work as long as the chord is held down on the keyboard, but the drum tracks will continue
to play regardless.

SLOW

This decreases the Tempo value of the Arranger or of the Sequencer.

FAST

This increases the Tempo value of the Arranger or of the Sequencer. By pressing

SLOW

and

FAST

together at

the same time, the Tempo value is locked (marked by an asterisk) so that calling up another Style with a dif-
ferent Tempo cannot modify it. To disable this locking, press

SLOW

and

FAST

together at the same time. To

restore the default Tempo of the style press

PAGE +

and

PAGE –

together at the same time.

A, B, C, D

Each of these push buttons corresponds to a variation of the style, from the most simple to the most complex.
Further to these push buttons, also

Jump Fill

in the

Left Control

menu can be used to move forward or back

between the variations.

INTRO 1, 2, 3

(REMIX SELECT, DRUM MIXER, DRUM&BASS)

If one of these three push buttons is pressed while the Arranger

is stopped an Intro is enabled, of which there are three with varying complexity. If one of these three push but-
tons is pressed while the Arranger is playing, an Ending is enabled with three available variations having dif-
ferent levels of complexity. If the

Jump Fill

push button is enabled and an Intro push button is pressed, the

Intro selected will be played. While in

Song Play

mode, the three pushbuttons enable the Remix functions to

be controlled on the piece of music being played.

VEGA

Control panel and push button functions