Yamaha DX200 Taking Patterns out of your Song Delete Pattern

Chapter 15 Song Recording
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67 Taking Patterns out of your Song — Delete Pattern
If you’ve made a mistake in creating your Song, you can always clear it (page 81) and start over. Or you can
use Delete Pattern to erase the offending entry, and keep the other Patterns intact.
Delete Pattern lets you take Patterns out of specific measures in your existing Songs. Keep in mind, how-
ever, it makes your Song shorter by one measure AND it doesn’t leave an empty space — any Patterns that
follow the deleted one move back to fill the vacated measure.
Delete Pattern can be used in either the Song mode or the Song Edit mode.
1 First, select the measure that contains the Pattern you want to delete.
Hold [SHIFT] and use the [OCT <<]/[OCT >>] buttons.
2 Call up the Delete Pattern function.
Hold down [SHIFT] and press [10] (INS/DEL PTN). You may have to press
the button more than once to call up the “dEL” (Delete Pattern) display.
3 Delete the Pattern.
The [10] button should be flashing. Press it once again (the button stops flashing and stays lit). At the
“Y£n” (“Yes or no?”) prompt, press it a third time to actually delete the Pattern from the selected mea-
sure, or press [EXIT] to cancel.
Here’s an example of what happens when you use Pattern Delete. In the illustration below, we’ll delete
Pattern 013 at Measure 3.
Don’t forget to store your newly edited Song, or you’ll lose any edits you’ve
made once you turn the power off or select another Song or Pattern.
Pattern 012
Measure 1
Pattern 012
Measure 2
Pattern 014
Measure 3
Pattern 012
Measure 1
Pattern 012
Measure 2 Measure 3
Pattern 013
Measure 4
Pattern 014
Here, Pattern 013 is deleted from
Measure 3, and Pattern 014 moves
over to take its place.
Delete Pattern
Allows you delete a Pattern from any mea-
sure within an existing Song. All subsequent
Patterns/measures move back to fill the
vacant measure.
With Song (or Song Edit) mode active, hold
[SHIFT] and use [OCT <<]/[OCT >>] buttons
to select desired measure. Hold [SHIFT] and
press [10] to call up “dEL” (Delete), and
press [10] twice to execute.