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Chapter 6 Creating and Editing Songs

If the following message appears

If you try to display another screen after you’ve changed the song’s settings for each Part, a message like the one below may appear.

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Touch <OK> to change the song’s settings.

Touch <Cancel> to discard the changes you’re made.

■Recording a Performance

❍Step 1 Prepare for Recording Selecting the song to record

1.Press the [Select/Listen to a Song] button.

2.Touch the genre of the song you’re recording.

When recording a new song, try recording to “Favorites.”

3.Select the song number to which you want to record. If recording a new song, touch <0: (Song Name)> to

select <0: New Song>.

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■Getting the Most Suitable Part Tones for the Musical Genre

(Tone Set)

“Tone Set” is a function that automatically assigns the most suitable tones for the selected musical style.

When you’re creating a song, you can assign Tone sets, then change the Tones to suit the ideas you have for your song.

1.Display the 16-track Sequencer screen (p. 113).

2.Touch <Tone Set> in the lower part of the screen.

A screen like the one shown below appears.

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3.Touch the screen to select a musical genre.

4.Touch <Exit>.

The 16-track Sequencer screen appears.

Tones for each part are assigned automatically.

* In some genres, some parts may have no tone assigned.

→If a song has already been recorded, or if the song’s settings have been changed, the “OK to delete Song?” confirmation prompt appears when you touch <0: (Song Name)>. For more information, take a look at “If the following screen appears” (p. 90).

Determining the song’s beat and tempo

4.Press the [Metronome] button to select the beat (p. 40).

→You can’t change a song’s beat once it’s been recorded. If you want to compose a song whose beat changes partway through the song, take a look at “Changing the Beat in the Middle of a Song (Beat Map)” (p. 127).

5.Press the Tempo [-] and [+] buttons to set the basic tempo of the song.

If you do not need the metronome sound, press the [Metronome] button once more.

→When using song data that has already been recorded, the recording is made using the source song’s basic tempo. To change the basic tempo of a song, please refer to “Changing the Tempo of Recorded Songs” (p. 128).

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