Yamaha PSR-A1000

Recording Your Performances and Creating Songs — Song Creator

PSR-A1000

This is the easiest recording method — perfect for quickly recording and playing back a piano song you’re practicing, so

you can check your progress.

■Play back your new song

To play back the performance you just recorded, return the song to the beginning by

using the [TOP] button and press the SONG [START/STOP] button.

Playback stops automatically at the end of the song, and returns to the beginning of the

song.

You can edit the recorded song data from the SONG CREATOR (1 - 16) displays (page 96).

Press the [6▼] button from the Open/Save display for Song to store the recorded data

(page 35, 41).

Quick Recording

REC REW FF

START/STOP

TOP

NEW SONG SYNC. START

REC EXTRA

TRACKS

(STYLE) (R)(L)

TRACK

2TRACK

■When creating a new song: ■When recording over the part of an internal

song or a song on disk with your own

performance:

1Select the desired song (page 67, 69).

2Select the voice and accompaniment style you want to use in the song.

If you want to record to the MAIN/Layer/Left voices, make sure to set the [MAIN]/[LAYER]/[LEFT] buttons to ON.

Make any other desired settings (Reverb, Chorus, etc.) as well.

3Simultaneously hold down the [REC] button and press the button

corresponding to the track you want to record.

You can select TRACK 1 or TRACK 2 and the EXTRA TRACKS for recording at the

same time.

To record your keyboard performance:

Press either the [TRACK 1] or [TRACK 2] button.

To record the auto accompaniment and

multi pad performance:

Press the [EXTRA TRACKS] button.

To stop recording, press

the [REC] button again.

If the "LAYER" or "LEFT" but-

ton is on before pressing the

REC button, the correspond-

ing Layer and Left parts are

automatically recorded to dif-

ferent channels.

The performance of track 1/2

is recorded to the channel

speciﬁed in the SONG SET-

TING display (page 121).

Recording starts as soon as you play the keyboard.

You can also start recording by pressing the SONG/STYLE

[START/STOP] button. Recording can also be started by

pressing down the foot pedal, if the song start/stop

function is properly assigned to the pedal (page 123).

To stop recording, press the [RECORD] button again.

Recording can also be stopped by pressing down the foot pedal, if the song

start/stop function is properly assigned to the pedal (page 123).

END

To pause, press the SONG

[START/STOP] button. To

resume recording, press the

SONG [START/STOP] but-

ton again.

You can also use the metro-

nome click as a guide while

recording.

The sound of the metronome

is not recorded.

You can overdub a second

right-hand performance onto

Track 2 after recording the

ﬁrst right-hand performance

(including the layer voices)

on Track 1. To do this, set the

[LEFT] button to OFF and

repeat steps 2 and 3.

Turning off the power

automatically deletes your

recorded performance. If

you wish to save the

recording, make sure to

store it to internal mem-

ory (USER drive) or ﬂoppy

disk (page 35, 41).

CAUTION