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Recording Your Own Performance

You can record up to five of your own performances and save them as user Songs 001 through 005.

These Songs can be played in the same manner as the preset Songs. Once your performances have been saved as user Songs, they can be converted to SMF (Standard MID File) format files and saved to USB flash memory (page 77) and used with the score display function. This means that when inspiration strikes and you create a great melody, you can save it in both listenable and written score form.

■Recordable data

You can record to a total of 9 tracks: 8 melody tracks and 1 Style (chord) track. Each track can be recorded individually.

●Melody Track [1]–[8]....... Record the melody or other parts, such as bass.

● Style Track [ACMP] ........

Record the Rhythm and Chord.

■Recording methods

● Quick Recording..............

Immediately start recording by pressing the

 

[REC] button. (see page 33)

● Multi Recording...............

Specify the Song or Part number and then

 

start recording. (see page 34)

NOTE

•Up to approximately 10,000 notes can be recorded, if you record only to the melody tracks.

•Up to approximately 5,400 chord changes can be recorded, if you record only to the accompaniment track.

•User Songs as such cannot pro- duce score display, but they can be converted to SMF (Standard MIDI File) format and stored to USB flash memory (page 77), from which they can be played with score display.

•Even if you change the Voice during recording, the DSP type will not be changed and the original DSP type will still be applied.

Track Configuration

Generally, Song data consists of 16 tracks. On this instrument, you can record your performance step-by- step to each of tracks 1–8. For example, you can select the Main Voice for recording to Track 1, then set the Dual Voice to Track 2, and so on. (When the Quick Recording mode is selected, the playing parts and their corresponding tracks are set automatically.)

■Recording track

When Multi track recording is selected, you can specify the recording track [1]–[8] and accompaniment track.

In this instrument, data cannot be recorded to tracks [9]–[16]. However, in the case of Songs loaded from computer, if the Song has data in tracks [9]–[16], you can playback and mute these tracks as desired. (See page 66.)

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