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4 Recording

Recording a New Song

A song that you play on the Disklavier can be recorded in the [User Library] and the recorded song can be easily played back. Furthermore, you can select and exclusively record the desired part.

1 Tap on in the [Main] screen.

A new song will be created automatically.

2 Tap on .

The white part won’t be recorded.

The red part will be recorded.

3 Tap on the desired part (,

, or ) to change its setting (record or not).

Each time you tap on the part, its setting changes alternately.

When you record both left- and right- hand part, go to step 4.

When you record either left- or right- hand part, go to step 5.

4 Tap on [Split Point], and then press to select the desired note as the

split point.

The selected note and notes lower than that note are assigned to the left-hand part, and the notes higher than that are assigned to the right-hand part.

5 Press to start, and then immediately pause recording.

Note: When the video synchronization is on (→ pg. 43 “Video Synchronized Recording”), recording does not pause in this step.

6 Confirm that [Recording] appears in the Information area, and then start playing the Disklavier.

The Disklavier starts recording.

7 To play back the recorded song, press

Press to stop recording.

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