Song Mode

Song Mode: The MAIN Page

When the Song Status is REC READY, pressing the Play soft button will begin recording.

Pause and Play share the same soft button. Pause appears only when the Song Status is PLAYING or RECORDING. Pressing Pause while the song is playing will stop the playback (soft button switches to Play), and the location remains at the current bar and beat, allowing you to continue from that location by pressing Play again.

Pressing Pause while recording will stop the recording process as if you had pressed Stop.

Stop halts the playback or recording, and resets the song’s location to either the default Bar 1, Beat 1 value, or to whatever location you defined with the Locate parameter. If the location is defined as something other than Bar 1, Beat 1, press Stop twice to return to 1:1.

Pressing Stop when the Song Status is RECORDING will always prompt the “Save changes to this song?” dialog (described below), and provides you with the opportunity to listen to the new song and compare it with the old, previously saved, song before answering Yes or No.

Here are some useful alternatives to using these button presses:

There are dedicated front panel buttons for Record, Play/Pause, and Stop. You’ll find them just below the eight mode buttons.

Footswitches can be assigned to Play/Stop and Record/Stop. On the MIDI-mode TRANSMIT page, assign either footswitch to controller number 102 or 103. Using controller 103, you can even record from within the Song Editor.

Double button presses allow Song Play, Pause, and Stop soft button functions from most places where these buttons are not available. Use the cursor Left+Right double-press for Play/Stop, and use the cursor Up+Down double-press for Play/Pause.

Erase removes all channelized data from the track on which the cursor is currently positioned (on either the Track or Channel parameters) or from the record-enabled track if the cursor is positioned elsewhere. As described on page 12-32,a dialog appears that allows you to verify your intentions before permanently erasing any data. Once you’ve confirmed the erasure, it takes place immediately, so be sure you really want to erase the track before pressing the OK soft button. You will not be able to revert to a version of the song that includes the erased tracks—unless you’ve saved the earlier version to another ID. So be careful before you start removing data that you may not want to lose permanently.

The Erase function doesn’t show a dialog or erase any data if an empty track is selected.

MISC accesses more sequencer control parameters found on the Song-mode MISC page. These miscellaneous controls include record- and play-mode settings, auto punch-in points, quantization on input settings, tempo, and click attributes, as documented later in this chapter, starting on page 12-32.

MIXER lets you view a graphic representation of knobs and level faders for each track on the MIX page. You can modify program changes, volume and pan position on this page. Record status can also be selected here. The section on the Mixer begins on page 12-39.

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