Yamaha PSR-I425

52 PSR-I425 Owner’s Manual

Record Your Own Performance

You can record up to 5 of your own performances and save them as

user songs 031 through 035. The recorded song can be played back on

the instrument.

■ Recordable Data

You can record to a total of 6 tracks: 5 melody tracks and 1 style (chord) track.

Each track can be recorded individually.

●Melody Track [1]–[5] ..........Record the melody par ts.

●Style Track [A] ................... Records the chord part.

To record your own performance, ﬁrst use the SONG MEMORY [1]–[5] and [A] buttons to specify the

track(s) you want to record on. The track you record on determines the part that plays back later.

1Press the [SONG] button, then use the dial to select the

user song number (031–035) you want to record to.

• Up to approximately 10,000

notes can be recorded if you

record only to the melody

tracks. Up to approximately

5,500 chord changes can be

recorded if you record only to

the style track.

NOTE

Track Configuration

• The Difference Between MELODY R and MELODY L …

Songs are a combination of a melody and an auto-accom-

paniment style. Normally “melody” refers to the right-hand

part, but in this instrument “melody” parts are provided for

both the right and left hands. MELODY R is the melody

part played by the right hand, and MELODY L is the mel-

ody part played by the left hand.

NOTE

•Track [1]—Will play back as the right-hand melody

part (MELODY R)

•Track [2]—Will play back as the left-hand melody

part (MELODY L)

•Tracks [3]–[5]—Will play back as “other” perfor-

mance data.

•Track [A]—Will play back as the Style (auto-accom-

paniment) part.

Melody Chords

Specify

track(s) and

record

Trac k

Right-hand

melody

Left-hand

melody

Other perfor-

mance data

Style

The parts played by each track

when a user song is played back.

Recording Procedure

031

User 1

Rotate the dial to select a song

number between 031 and 035.