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PSR-2100/1100
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 96), which lets you
record easily and quickly; Multi Recording (page 97), which lets you record several different parts; and Step Recording
(page 99), 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, vocal harmony and auto accompaniment parts. The recorded song
can be stored to internal memory or floppy disk (page 38, 47).

About Song Recording

There are two methods of recording songs: realtime recording and step recording.
■Realtime Recording
This method lets you record performance data in real time. There are two ways to use
realtime recording: Quick and Multi.
Quick Recording (page 96)
This is the easiest recording method, and lets you quickly record the piano
song you are practicing. You can select from four parts: right hand, left hand
and auto accompaniment/multi pad. 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 97)
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 99)
This method lets you compose your performance by “writing” it down one event
at a time. This is a non-realtime, manual recording method — similar to writing
music notation onto paper. By using the Event List (page 108-110), you can input
notes, chords and other events one by one.
■Song Editing (page 105)
The PSR-2100/1100 also lets you edit the songs you’ve recorded by the Quick
Recording, Multi Recording and Step Recording methods.
When re-recording a specific section of an already-recorded song, use the Punch
IN/OUT function (page 104).
USER
ENTER
EXIT
BALANCE
FUNCTION
HELP
MENU
DEMO
SOUND CREATOR
DIGITAL RECORDING
MIXING CONSOLE
DIGITAL
STUDIO
DIRECT
ACCESS
PART
CHANNEL ON/OFF
FREEZE MEMORY
DATA ENTRY
ORGAN FLUTES
STRINGS CHOIR & PAD
GUITAR
MAIN
BACK NEXT
LEFT
MUSIC
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DSP
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BRASS
ORGAN &
ACCORDION
VOICE EFFECT
VOICE
ONE TOUCH SETTING
REGISTRATION MEMORY
MIC.
EFFECT
RESET
VOCAL
HARMONY
MIC.
SETTING
VH TYPE
SELECT TALK
OVER
SIGNAL
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TRANSPOSE
ACMP
STANDBY
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INTRO
START/STOP
MAIN ENDING
/ rit. AUTO
FILL IN
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LINK
SYNC.
STOPSYNC.
START
BREAK
BALLAD USERLATIN
POP & ROCK
REC REW FF
START/STOP
TOP
BALLROOM
DANCE
RESET
MIN MAX
FADE
IN/OUT
TEMPO
STOP
TAP TEMPO
RESET
NEW SONG SYNC. START
SONG
STYLE
MARCH &
WALTZ
METRO-
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EXTRA
TRACKS
(STYLE) (R)(L)
TRACK
2TRACK
1 REPEAT
SWING &
JAZZ
MULTI PAD
STYLE CONTROL
MASTER VOLUME
PART
REC REW FF
START/STOP
TOPNEW SONG SYNC. STARTSONG
METRO-
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EXTRATRACKS(STYLE) (R)(L)TRACK2TRACK1 REPEATDIGITAL RECORDING• The internal memor y capacity of the PSR-2100/1100 is about 1520KB (PSR-2100)/700KB (PSR-1100). Memory capacity for 2DD and 2HD floppy disks is about 720KB and 1.44MB, respectively. When you store data to these loca-tions, all file types of the PSR-2100/1100 (Voice, Style, Song, Registra-tion, etc.) are stored together.•The microphone input signal (PSR-2100 only) cannot be recorded. • Songs recorded on the PSR-2100/1100 are automatically recorded as SMF (Standard MIDI File format 0) data. For details on SMF, see page 161.• 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 149).• 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 107).