Recording Your Performances and Creating Songs — Song Creator

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This is the easiest recording method — perfect for quickly recording and playing back a piano song you’re practicing, so
you can check your progress.

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Play back your new song

To play back the performance you just recorded, return the song to the beginning by using the [TOP] button and
press the SONG

[START/STOP]

button.
Playback stops automatically at the end of the song, and returns to the beginning of the song.

You can edit the recorded song data from the

SONG CREATOR (1 - 16)

displays (page 110).

Press the [6

▼

] button from the Open/Save display for Song to store the recorded data (page 40, 48).

Quick Recording

If you wish to save the recording, make sure to store it to internal memory (USER drive) or floppy disk (page 40, 48).
If you turn off the power or re-record over an existing track before you save the performance, any previous recording will be erased.

CAUTION
REC TOPSTART / STOP REW FF REPEAT
NEW SONG SYNC.START

■When creating a new song: ■When recording over the part of an internal

song or a song on disk with your own

performance:

1Select the desired song (page 78, 80).
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2Select the voice and accompaniment style you want to use in the song.
If you want to record to the Layer/Left voices, make sure to set the [LAYER]/[LEFT] buttons to ON.
Make any other desired settings (Reverb, Chorus, etc.) as well.
3To record without specifying a particular track, press the [REC] button.
In this case, your performance will be recorded automatically to TRACK 1.
To specify the track for recording, simultaneously hold down the [REC] button
and press the button corresponding to the track you want to record.
You can select TRACK 1 or TRACK 2 and the EXTRA TRACKS for recording at the same time.
• Specifying the recording track
To record your keyboard performance:
Press either the [TRACK 1] or [TRACK 2] button.
To record the auto accompaniment performance:
Press the [EXTRA TRACKS] button.
To stop recording, press the
[REC] button again.
If the “LAYER” or “LEFT”
button is on before pressing
the REC button, the corre-
sponding Layer and Left parts
are automatically recorded to
different channels.
The performance of track 1/2
is recorded to the channel
specified in the SONG SET-
TING display (page 140).
4Recording starts as soon as you play the keyboard.
You can also start recording by pressing the SONG/
STYLE [START/STOP] button. Recording can also be
started by pressing down the pedal, if the song start/stop
function is properly assigned to the pedal (page 142).
To stop recording, press the [REC] button again.
Recording can also be stopped by pressing down the pedal, if the song start/
stop function is properly assigned to the pedal (page 142).
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To pause, press the SONG
[START/STOP] button. To
resume recording, press the
SONG [START/STOP] but-
ton again.
You can also use the metro-
nome click as a guide while
recording.
The sound of the metronome
is not recorded.
You can overdub a second
right-hand performance onto
Track 2 after recording the
first right-hand performance
(including the layer voices)
on Track 1. To do this, set the
[LEFT] button to OFF and
repeat steps 2 and 3.
REC EXTRA TRACKS
(STYLE) TRACK 2
(L) TRACK 1
(R)