5.Song mode
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Recording knob movements or your
performance in a song
(Event Recording)
In addition to placing patterns in a desired playback order, Song
mode also lets you record your realtime performance on the
step keys using the Keyboard function, and knob movements
you perform.
Recording this type of performance in Song mode is referred to
as "event recording."
Event recording lets you record the following three types of per-
formance data (event data).
•Your performance using the Keyboard function
•Your performance using the knobs and switches (only for the
selected part)
•Tempo
Event recording allows you to record two or more types of events
in the same area, as long as the events are played at the same time.
Event recording always rewrites the previous data ("replace
recording"), and when you record your performance, any event
recording data previously in that area will be erased. (It is not
possible to layer event recording over the same area.)
1. Select the song on which you wish to record events.
2. Use the cursor keys to make the parameter select LEDs indi-
cate POSITION.
3. Use the dial or the SELECT keys to move to the position at
which you wish to begin recording.
4. Press the Rec key, and then press the Play/Pause key to be-
gin event recording.
5. Use the PART SELECT key and/or the knobs to perform.
6. Press the Stop/Cancel key to stop event recording.
If the musical data of the song coincides with the event-recorded
data, the song data will be given priority during playback.
Knob movements that are event-recorded in Song mode will
always playback in a way that corresponds to the SMOOTH
type motion sequence setting (and not the TRIG HOLD type).
If you wish to save the event recording, you must perform
the Write operation. If you switch songs or turn off the power
without performing the Write operation, the data that was
recorded will be lost.
If during playback you operate a knob that had been event-
recorded, playback of the events of that knob will be can-
celled until it reaches the next position. However if you
modify the tempo that was event-recorded, the tempo will
be cancelled until the end of the song.
After rewinding a song, it may not be possible to playback
exactly according to the event data.
Deleting event data from a song
(CLEAR EVENT)
This operation deletes all event data from the selected song.
1. If the song is playing, press the Stop/Cancel key to stop play-
back.
2. Hold down the SHIFT key and press step key 15 (CLEAR
EVENT). (The 15 key will blink.)
3. Press step key 15 once again to clear the data.
To cancel, press the Stop/Cancel key.
Checking for song event data
If event data has been recorded in a song, holding down the
SHIFT key and pressing the MOTION SEQ key will make step
keys 13 through 16 light.
It is not possible to check for event data during playback
or recording.
Saving a song (WRITE)If you wish to save a song that you create, you must perform
this Write operation.
If you decide not to save the song data you create, simply switch
songs without performing the Write operation.
1. If the song is playing, press the Stop/Cancel key to stop play-
back. Use the cursor keys to make the parameter select LEDs
indicate SONG.
2. Press the WRITE key once (the key will blink). The song num-
ber will blink in the display.
3. Rotate the dial to select the writing destination song number.
4. Press the WRITE key once again to save the data. (The key
will light, and then go dark.)
To cancel, press the Stop/Cancel key.
If the Global mode Memory Protect setting is on, it will not
be possible to write the data. In this case, turn off the Glo-
bal mode Memory Protect setting before you execute the
Write operation.
Never turn the power off during the Write operation. This
may damage the data.