Korg C-720 user manual Playing back a song, Accessing the Song Play mode, How to select a song

Playing back a song > Accessing the Song Play mode

Playing back a song

The C-720 incorporates a multitrack recorder, with which you can record and play back songs. Since you can turn off a single part (say, the left hand), and leave another part playing (say, the right hand), this can be very useful for practicing.

Together with the C-720 come a huge number of classical songs (185), with which you can play along for practicing or for enjoying your preferred tunes. Songs are organized in “al- bums”, that include famous lesson books (Beyer, Burgmüller),

a collection of famous songs, and all the pieces included in the supplied SongBook.

The recorder can also read 16-track songs in the Standard MIDI Files (SMF) format, that can be created on a computer or easily found on the market or in the public domain. Please note that, while the C-720 complies with General MIDI (GM) sound mapping, it does not include all GM sounds. For a de- tailed list of sounds, see page 68.

Accessing the Song Play mode

After you press the SONG button, the Song Play page appears:

Song name

01-Prelude 1

M:--- 4/4 120 Tempo

To return to the Main page, just press one of the sound selec- tion buttons to select a sound, or press the EXIT button. The selected song will still be active, but you will no longer see its name in the display, until you press the SONG button again.

Current measure Time signature

How to select a song

To play a song, you must first select it from an album. Songs are contained into a permanent memory, and are preserved when turning the instrument off.

1.If you are in the Main page, press the SONG button twice. If you are already in Song Play mode, press the SONG but- ton once to access the Song Selection page:

Album:SongBook Album

01-Prelude 1 Song

2.Use the +/YES and -/NO buttons to select one of the avail- able songs inside the selected album. If the name is longer than the display, it will scroll up to the end, then returns to the beginning.

3. To select a different album, use the SCROLL button to move the cursor to the first line of the display:

Album:SongBook 01-Prelude 1

Scroll

Album:SongBook 01-Prelude 1

As an alternative, you can use the first six sound select buttons to choose an album. See table on the next page.

4.Use the +/YES and -/NO buttons to select one of the avail- able albums. Various song albums are available (see page 72 for a detailed list of the included songs):

		Correspondin
Album	Content	g sound
		button
UserSong	Songs created using the internal	(1)	PIANO 1
	recorder, or created with an exter-
	nal sequencer and then trans-
	ferred to the C-720 via a USB
	connection (see page 53)
SongBook	All the songs of the supplied	(2)	PIANO 2
	SongBook
Classics	A collection of famous classical	(3)	E.PIANO 1
	pieces
Beyer A	The “Preparatory School, Op. 101”	(4)	E.PIANO 2
	lesson book by Ferdinand Beyer,
Beyer B		(5)	HARPSI/
	splitted in two separate parts (A
		CLAV
	and B)
Burgmlr	Burgmüller’s “25 Easy and Pro-	(6)	VIBES/
	gressive Studies, Op. 100” lesson	GUITAR
	book

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