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Playing Back Recorded Songs and Commercially-available Music Data

CLP-380 Owner’s Manual

Basic Operation

While the Clavinova is playing or stopped, pressing these part buttons turn off the

indicators, and the data on those parts will not be played. Pressing the part buttons

toggles part playback on and off. You can play the part that is turned off.

Data formats that can be played on the CLP-380

The Clavinova CLP-380 plays song data in the following formats:

Sequence format

• SMF (Standard MIDI File) formats 0 and 1

• ESEQ

Performance data recorded on the CLP-380 is saved as SMF format 0.

Voice arrangement format

• XG voice arrangement

• GM system level 1 voice arrangement

• GM system level 2 voice arrangement

• DOC voice arrangement

Performance data recorded with preset XG voices on the CLP-380 can be played on other

XG-compatible instruments.

See the separate “Data List” for the XG voice list.

Floppy disk format

• 3.5-inch 2DD disks in the MS-DOS 720KB format

• 3.5-inch 2HD disks in the MS-DOS 1.44MB format

Refer to “Data Compatibility” on page 112 for more information on formats.

Tur ning part playback on and off

You can practice a part or phrase

using the “SongRepeat (page 82)”

and “PhraseMark (page 82)”

parameters in the “FILE/SONG

SETTING” menu.

Appropriate channels (parts) in the

song will automatically be assigned

to [RIGHT] and [LEFT]. Therefore,

[RIGHT] may be assigned to a part

other than Part 1, or [LEFT] to a

part other than Part 2.

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Supported song data type

Sequence format:

A structured method for recording

performance data.

Voice arrangement format:

A structured method for numbering

the voices for assignment.

This instrument can play GS format

songs. However, the voices may

not be completely the same as

used in the original.

Disk format:

A structured method for writing

data to disk.

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