CVP-209/207
94
Recording Your Performances and Creating Songs

— Song Creator

With these powerful yet easy-to-use song creating features, you can record your own keyboard performances and store
them for future recall. Several different recording methods are available: Quick Recording (page 95), which lets you
record easily and quickly; Multi Recording (page 96), which lets you record several different parts; and Step Recording
(page 98), which lets you enter notes one by one. Songs can include not only the voice settings for the keyboard
performance (Main, Layer, Left), but also the effects, auto accompaniment parts, and Vocal Harmony. The recorded song
can be stored to internal memory or floppy disk (page 39, 45).

About Song Recording

■Quick Recording (page 95)
This is the easiest recording method, and lets you quickly record the piano
song you are practicing. You can select from three parts: right hand, left hand
and auto accompaniment. For example, you can record only your right hand
performance, or you can simultaneously record both your right hand and the
auto accompaniment.
■Multi Recording (page 96)
This lets you record a song with several different instrument sounds, and create
the sound of a full band or orchestra. Record the performance of each
instrument individually and create fully orchestrated compositions. You can
also record over an existing part on an internal song or a song on disk with
your own performance.
■Step Recording (page 98)
This method is like writing music notation on paper. It lets you enter each note
individually, by specifying the pitch and length. This is ideal for making precise
recordings, or for recording parts that are difficult to play.
■Song Editing (page 104)
The CVP-209/207 also lets you edit the songs you’ve recorded by the Quick
Recording, Multi Recording and Step Recording methods.
POWER METRONOME
MASTER VOLUME
STYLE
ACMP AUTO FILL IN
OTS LINK
BREAK INTRO MAIN
START STOP
ON
MIN MAX
OFF
ENDING rit.
TAP TEMPO
REW REPEATTOP FFREC
MIC. SIGNAL OVER
FADE IN OUT
TAP TEMPO
DEMO
HELP
FUNCTION
SOUND
CREATOR
DIGITAL
RECORDING
MIXING
CONSOLE BALANCE
CHANNEL
ON OFF
TRANSPOSETEMPO
SYNC.STOP START STOP
PART
PART
A
E
D
C
B
F
J
I
DIRECT ACCESS 12345678 EXIT
START STOP
SONG
EXTRA TRACKS TRACK 2 TRACK 1
VOCAL HARMONY TALK EFFECT VH TYPE SELECTMIC. SETTING
STYLE L R
SYNC.START
RESETRESET
GUIDE
MENU
BACK NEXT
VOICE PART
PIANO
ON OFF
HARMONY ECHO LEFT HOLDMONO
DIGITAL
STUDIO
H
GLAYER
PIANO & HARPSI. E. PIANO PERCUSSION GUITAR BASS ORGAN FLUTESORGAN & ACCORDION
BRASS WOODWIND CHOIR & PAD SYNTH. XG USERSTRINGS
LEFT
DATA
ENTRY FREEZE MEMORY
1
1432
34 75862
ENTER
VOICE EFFECT
VOICE
MUSIC FINDER
ONE TOCTH SETTING
REVERB DSP VARIATION
SONG
EXTRA TRACKS
(STYLE)
TRACK 2
(L)
TRACK 1
(R)
REC TOP START / STOP REW FF REPEAT GUIDE
NEW SONG SYNC.START
DIGITAL
RECORDING
•The internal memory capacity of
the Clavinova is about 3.3MB.
Memory capacity for 2DD and 2HD
floppy disks is about 720KB and
1.44MB, respectively. When you
store data to these locations, all file
types of the Clavinova (Voice,
Style, Song, Registration, etc.) are
stored together.
•The microphone input signal can-
not be recorded.
•Songs recorded on the CVP-209/
207 are automatically recorded as
SMF (Standard MIDI File format 0)
data. For details on SMF see
page 159.
•Playback of the recorded song
data can be transmitted from MIDI
OUT, letting you play the sounds of
a connected external tone genera-
tor (page 146).
•The volume level of each channel
of the song can be adjusted from
the Mixing Console and the set-
tings can be saved. Moreover, even
after you’ve set a voice for your
keyboard play during recording,
you can record voice selections, so
that the voice changes automati-
cally during playback (page 106).