Roland AT15 owner manual Layering a New Recording onto SMF Music Files

Record and Playback Your Performance

Layering a New Recording onto SMF Music Files

You can load commercially available SMF music files into the AT-15, and record your own performance on top of it. During recording, the data you’ve loaded will be played back, while everything you play on the upper and lower manuals will be recorded.

1. Insert a floppy disk containing commercially available SMF music files into the floppy disk drive.

2. Press the Select [-] [+] buttons to select the music file that you wish to load into the AT-15.

3. Press the [Load] button.

The selected music file will be loaded.

While performance data is being loaded, the following screen will appear.

4. Press the [Rec] button to enter record-ready mode.

The [Rec] button indicator will light, and the [Play/Stop] button indicator will blink.

5. Make the panel settings that you wish to record. 6. Press the [Play/Stop] button to begin recording.

When you press the [Play/Stop] button, the metronome will play two measures (bars) of count-in before recording begins.

As you record, the music file that was loaded into the AT-15 will play back.

Your own performance (on the upper and lower manuals) will be recorded on top of the music files that you’ve loaded.

When the music files include performance data on Channel 1 (when the Solo voice is on), Channel 3, or Channel 4, that performance data is deleted, and the performance on the upper manual or lower manual is recorded.

Keyboard	AT-15 Track	SMF
Lower Keyboard	Lower	3
Upper Keyboard	Upper	4
	Solo	1 (when the Solo voice is on)

7. Press the [Play/Stop] button to stop recording.

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The performance data you recorded can be saved on a floppy disk (p. 73).

NOTE

Commercially sold music files can also be loaded into the AT-15, but for reasons of copyright protection, cannot be saved in SMF format.

You can re-record the pedal keyboard performance. For details refer to “Re- recording the Pedalboard Performance” (p. 82).

NOTE

The performances of Channel 2 in SMF music files are deleted when pedal performances are recorded over again.