Recording and Playing Back Phrases

Recording Over Another Phrase (Overdubbing)

1. Select the phrase you want to overdub.

2. Press the cq (PHRASE) button the required number of times until its lamp starts to flash.

•If NEW (new phrase) is displayed as the “Rec Mode” setting, use the eo minus (–)and plus (+) buttons to change it to OVDB (overdubbing). This will enter the overdubbing standby mode.

3.Start recording.

•For details about how to do this, see “Starting and Stopping Recording” in “Operations Common to All Modes” (page E-12).

•The original phrase will playback as a loop. Anything you play on the keyboard and any operations you perform during loop playback will be overdubbed onto the original phrase.

■To delete the last recorded data (undo)

While phrase playback is in progress or stopped, or while overdubbing is in progress, hold down the cs (RECORD) button until the undo screen “PHRASE : UNDO” appears.

•You can also use the operation below to perform an undo operation while the PHRASE SELECT screen shown under “Listening to a Phrase” (page E-20) is displayed.

Press the ep (EDIT) button and then use the dt (w) and ek (q) buttons to select “Undo”. Finally, press the em (ENTER) button.

This will display an undo screen. Perform the procedure from step 3 under “Saving Data” on page E-11 of the “Operations Common to All Modes” section.

•The message “PHRASE : Can’t UNDO” will be appear on the display if you try to perform an undo operation again after already undoing the last recording. Press the dr (EXIT) button to clear the message.

To save a phrase

For details about how to save data, see “Saving Data” in “Operations Common to All Modes” (page E-11).

•If there is not enough Digital Piano memory space available to store the phrase data, the message “not enough space” will appear on the above display in place of “Press Enter”, and you will not be able to save the phrase data. If this happens, delete some of the data in the Digital Piano’s memory to free up memory space.

•For information about deleting data you saved, see page E-28.

•The Digital Piano can store up to 1,000 user phrases of a combined data volume of 1MB.

■Saving a Phrase to an External Device

•USB flash drive (page E-32)

•Computer (page E-37)

Creating a Song

(Song Sequencer)

The Song Sequencer lets you combine phrase data into song data. With this Digital Piano, song data is referred as a “song”.

To create a song

1. Press the cm (SONG) button so the “SONG” side lamp becomes lit.

2. Specify the song number you want.

•For details about how to do this, see “Changing a Number or a Value” in “Operations Common to All Modes” (page E-9).

3.Press the ep (EDIT) button.

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