Chapter 4. Recording Your Performance
Recording a New Song
Record only the keyboard performance without playing along with an internal song.
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Recording settings (select “USr”)
1 Press the [Song/Tempo] button, getting its indicator to light in red.
The song number appears in the display for several seconds.
2 Press
display.
Specifying the tone and tempo for recording
3 Select the tone that you want to play (p. 16).
4 If necessary, turn on the metronome.
Sound the metronome while you set the tempo and beat of the song (p. 25).
5 Press the [Rec] button.
The [Rec] button’s indicator will light, the [Play] button’s indicator will blink, and you will be in
Start recording
6 Recording will start when you either press the [Play] button or play the
keyboard.
Two measures of the count sound are played, and the recording begins.
Note that recording will also begin as soon as you play anything on the keyboard, even if you do not press the [Play] button. There is no count sound played when you start in this manner.
When recording begins, the [Play] button and [Rec] button indicators will light. Go ahead and perform on the keyboard.
Stop recording
7 Press the [Play] or [Rec] button.
Recording will stop, and the indicators for the [Play] and [Rec] buttons will go dark.
Play back the recorded performance
8 Press the [Play] button.
You will hear the recorded performance.
Once again press the [Play] button, and playback will stop.
NOTE
If you layer a newly recorded performance without erasing the recorded song, the song tempo and beat will be stored with the settings that were recorded first.
About the “USr” display
When you stop recording, the
“ 
” display will change
to “ 
.”
The “.” in the lower right of the display indicates that there is already a recorded performance.
When recording songs that start on an upbeat (that start on a beat other than the first beat of the measure), press the [Rec] button to put the HP103 into recording standby, then press the [Play] button. Two measures of count sound are played, and then recording begins.
If you record without specifying the recording track, the performance will be recorded to the [Left] button. If you want to record the right and left hands separately on separate recording tracks, refer to “Selecting and Recording the Track for Each Hand Separately” (p. 33).
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