8. Recording and Playback

KR-3 – Recording

8.1 Recording

Normal recording

The KR-3 also features a “Composer” that functions like a tape recorder but is, of course, digital. You can record your own songs, as well as play songs using commercially available music data. Please be aware that the Composer records instructions (called MIDI messages) rather than sounds. That explains why you cannot record your singing or any other part picked up using the microphone.

You can store one song at a time. During recording, the data is automatically separated and recorded onto five separate tracks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Accompaniment

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Rhythm

 

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What is a track?

On devices like tape recorders, sounds that are played back via the left speaker and those that are played back via the right speaker are recorded onto separate places on tape. These “places” are called “tracks”. As you see, your KR-3 provides five tracks in Normal mode, i.e.

five places where MIDI messages can be recorded. The advantage of working with tracks is that you can rerecord or change (edit) just one part (on one track) while listening to the other tracks.

Let’s record something
1.Press the [REC] button.

The Composer goes into standby mode. The [REC] indicator lights, while the [PLAY] indicator flashes.

The tracks onto which the performance is recorded are selected automatically, and the track button’s indicator will flash.

In Whole Keyboard mode, you can record onto any track except the Rhythm track. In that case, the track whose button was last pressed will be the recording track.

Note: If a disk has been inserted into the disk drive, or after playing back a song on disk, you need to press the [SONG] button to bring up the Song Select screen. Select <U: User Song> and press the [REC] button.

2.Begin recording.

•When you are ready to record the melody of a song with Arranger backing, start Style playback (see “Starting a Music Style”), and recording begins.

•To record a piano or organ piece without accompani- ment, press the [PLAY] button.

Note: Remember that you can use the Rhythm section when playing a piano or organ piece. If that is what you want to do, see the preceding bullet.

Two measures of count-in will sound, after which recording will begin. The [PLAY] indicator now lights.

3.When the song is finished, press the [STOP] or [RESET] button.

The indicator on the button for the track on which the performance was recorded will light.

Note: Recording will also stop if you stop the Style (see above) by pressing either the [INTRO/ENDING] or the [START/STOP] button.

Note: It is also possible to keep the Composer from deactivating the Record Standby mode whenever you stop record- ing. See “Recording Mode” on page 34.

Note: If the internal memory of your KR-3 already contains a song, you will be unable to select songs from a disk. If that is what you want to do, first save your song to another disk (see page 32), then erase the song in the KR-3’s internal memory (see “Erasing the Composer song” on page 31). Alternatively, press <OK> in response to the message “User Song will be erased. Are you sure?”

Note: Remember that there is only one DSP effect. That is why it is impossible to use different DSP types for different tracks.

Cautions to take after recording

If, after recording, the power is turned off, the recorded performance will be erased. Ifyou want to save performances you’ve recorded, please refer to “Saving a song to disk”.

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