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Creating a new song
If you’ve assigned the same name as an existing song, a
screen will ask you to confirm that you want to overwrite the
existing song.
The Prelude is able to display both uppercase and lowercase
letters, but these are not distinguished internally.
For example, suppose that a song named “SONG1” has been
saved. If you now record a different song, assign it the name
“song1” and then attempt to save it, “SONG1” and “song1”
will be considered identically named songs, so a screen will
ask you to confirm the overwrite operation.
If you continue with the save operation, the new performance
data will be saved as “SONG1.” This means that the
performance data that was previously saved in “SONG1” will
be lost.
You can use Song Edit functions to edit the song data you’ve
recorded. If you want to keep the edited song data, proceed
as described in “Saving the song you recorded” (p. 31).
When you edit the song data, the SONG MAKEUP settings
will be lost.
1. Select the song that you want to edit (p. 29 in the owner’s
manual).
2. Press [PART VIEW] so the button is lit.
The SONG TRACK screen will appear.
3. In the SONG TRACK screen, select “EDIT” and press
[ENTER].
The Song Edit Menu window will appear.
You can also access the Song Edit Menu window from the
“SONG TRACK” screen by pressing [MENU].
4. In the “Song Edit Menu,” Use [ ] [ ] to move the
cursor to the editing function you want to use, and press
[ENTER].
The setting screen for the selected editing function will
appear.
The following editing functions are available.
•Quantize (Correcting the note timing)
•Erase (Erasing unwanted data)
•Delete (Deleting an unwanted region)
•Copy (Copying performance data)
•Insert (Inserting blank space)
•Transpose (Shifting the pitch)
•Change Velocity (Modifying the note dynamics)
•Change Gate Time (Modifying the note durations)
•Global Change (Replacing performance data)
•Shift Clock (Making fine adjustments to the timing)
•Merge (Combining performance data)
•Exchange (Exchanging data with another part)
To switch to a different editing function, move the cursor to the
function name shown at the top of the screen, and turn the
VALUE dial.
Editing a song (SONG EDIT)
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