Pa1X / PA1X Pro EasyStart
11.To exit press “Done”, then press “Yes”.
Now to save your song to a disk:
1.Press the ▼popup in the upper right of the display and select “Save Song”.
2.If you have a PA1X Pro or have installed the optional Hard Drive in a Pa1X, you can save it to the HD. If you want to save to a floppy disk, make sure you insert a disk in the drive.
3.Press the X popup in the lower left of the display to choose either the floppy disk (“FD”) or hard drive (“HD”), and then press “Save”.
4.Name your song by pressing the T next to “New Song” and give it a good, strong hit worthy name. Press “OK” then “OK” again. When propted, “Are you Sure” press “Yes”.
For more detailed information on using the sequencer, see pages
Saving your settings (Performances)
When you have a Style that you like and sounds you enjoy using with that particular Style, you can save all these setting together as a Performance. Other settings saved with a Performance are the tempo, any needed effects and transpositions, the Vocal Processor preset and volume settings. Up to 320 Performances can be saved.
1.To save a Performance, press the STYLE PLAY mode button. Press the ▼popup in the upper right of the display and select “Write Performance”.
2.You can NAME your PERFORMANCE by pressing the T next to Name: and entering characters in the display. When finished, press “OK”.
3.For now, let’s select an empty user location to save your performance so you don’t over write the presets.
4.For “Perf. Bank:” select 19 – User 2 and for “Performance:” select
The SongBook
One of the most powerful performance features of the Pa1X is the SongBook. An onboard music database that let’s you organize your Performance settings for fast, easy retrieval. Each entry may include the artist, title, genre, key, tempo and meter of a specified song. You can add your own entries as well as edit existing ones.
1.Press the SONGBOOK button. Here you can scroll through the list of hundreds of exsisting entries. This could take awhile. Let’s make things easier...
2.Press the “Filter…” box in the display. Here you can narrow your search down. For instance. Pop songs that have a tempo between 100 and 130 BPM. Press “Cancel” to exit this screen.
3.Select one of the songs you may be farmiliar with and then Press the “Select” box in the display.
4.Press the START/STOP button to play the selected file.
For more details on the SongBook functions, see the Pa1X/PA1X Pro Owner’s Manual Pages
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