Yamaha P-140 Playing Back Songs

Playing Back Songs

P-140 Owner’s Manual

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Playing Back Songs

The following three types of songs are available.

•50 Piano Preset Songs

50 Piano Preset Songs in the instrument. (page 15)

•User songs in the instrument

User songs which you recorded to the instrument by using the record function

(page 28).

•External songs in the instrument

Songs transferred from a computer (including commercially available songs and

songs which have been edited on a computer). Songs can be transferred (saved) to

the instrument by using the included Musicsoft Downloader software. The songs are

saved to an area of the internal memory separate from the area for recorded User

songs. Up to 255 songs can be played back on this instrument (numbers 001-255).

You can download the Musicsoft Downloader (MSD). Please check the following

URL for the latest version.

http://music.yamaha.com/download/

If the song cannot be transferred from a computer, you may need to rename the ﬁle.

Sequence formats that can be played on the P-140

•SMF (Standard MIDI File) Formats 0 and 1

The SMF format is one of the most common and widely compatible sequence for-

mats used for storing sequence data. There are two variations: Format 0 and Format

1. A large number of MIDI devices are compatible with SMF Format 0, and most

commercially available MIDI sequence data is provided in SMF Format 0. The SMF

format for sequence ﬁles allows you to exchange song data between different

sequencers.

Playing Back User Songs/External Songs on the P-140

1. Press the [SONG SELECT] button

(the USER indicator lights).

2. Press the [–/NO] [+/YES] buttons to

select a song.

The User songs are displayed as “Uxx*” and External

songs in the instrument are displayed as “xxx*.”

*The “U” indication in the User song name means

“User.” The letters “xx” represent the song number.

You cannot select songs during

Demo Song playback (page 14).

When playing back songs con-

taining various voices or parts

(such as XG or GM songs), the

voices may not sound correct or

as intended on the original. You

may be able to remedy this and

make the playback sound more

natural or appropriate by chang-

ing the Song Channel Selection

setting (page 43) to “1&2,” so that

only channels 1 and 2 will play

back.

If the metronome is being used

during playback, the metronome

will automatically stop when play-

back is stopped.

If the REVERB type is changed

via the panel controls during play-

back, both the playback and key-

board reverb effects will be

changed.

If the EFFECT type is changed via

the panel controls during playback,

the playback effect may be

switched off in some cases.

NOTE

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