Yamaha PSR-550 - page 68

Disk Song Playback

Song Playback

Insert the disk that contains song data into the disk drive.

PSR-550 will automatically switch into Song mode.

•If a disk has already been

inserted into the drive, press

the [SONG] button to call up

the Song display.

•Inserting a disk that does not

contain song data will not

automatically call up the

Song display.

Select the desired song.

Use the data dial, the [+/YES] button, the [-/NO] button or the number buttons

[1]-[0].

Press the [NEXT] button to display the Song Menu screen.

You can playback a huge variety of songs on the PSR-550, including the preset demo songs, the songs

on the included data disk, the User songs that you record to a floppy disk and songs on commercially

available XG/GM song collection disks. Except for the preset demo songs, a floppy disk must be inserted

in the disk drive to playback a song.

You can play back song files collected on these disks using the

voices defined in the GM standard.

You can play back songs using the XG format, an extension of the

GM standardthat allows for much higher sound quality.

You can play back song files collected on these disks using the

voices defined in Yamaha’s DOC format.

●The following disks are compatible for playback on the PSR-550 (including the

data disk). Refer to page 9 for more details on the logos.

●Disk songs can be played back in five different ways:..................... page 69

• SINGLE

• SINGLE REPEAT

• ALL

• ALL REPEAT

• RANDOM

●Additional song playback functions:

• Song Track Muting................................................................. page 70

• Tempo/T ap............................................................................. page 36

• Song Volume Control.............................................................page 70

• Song Transpose ....................................................................page 73

• Playing from a Specified Measure......................................... page 71

• Repeat Play........................................................................... page 72

•Make sure to read the

section “Using the Floppy

Disk Drive (FDD) and

Floppy Disks” on page 58.

•The tempo setting of some

commercially available disk

songs is fixed. These songs

are called “free-tempo

software”. When playing

back free-tempo song data

on the PSR-550, the Tempo

display shows “- - -” and the

beat display does not flash.

Also, the measure number in

the display does not match

the actual measure number

of playback, and only gives

you an indication of how

much of the song has played

back.

CHORD

dim

augsus4

119

513

BACK NEXT

KEYBOARD

START/STOP

/YES

TRACK(1~16)

PART DIAL

0~9

SONG

STYLE

VOICE LR12

EASY

NAVIGATOR

001 CLUB XG

MUSIC DATABASE

002 TECHNO