Recording & Playback With The Sequencer - Yamaha SY55 Product Manual

4. RECORDING & PLAYBACK WITH THE SEQUENCER
The Sequencer/MuIti-
Play Interface
In the preceding section we learned about the SY55 multi-play mode, and
how to create original multi-play setups. In this section we'll see how the
SY55 sequencer can be used to record the various parts of a musical composi-
tion, and "drive" the corresponding instruments of a multi-play setup. The
SY55 sequencer can hold up to 8 separate "songs," each with its own song
name ("REFERENCE" section, page 127), that can be selected and recorded
or played as required. Completed songs can also be stored to external memory
cards for long-term storage ("REFERENCE" section, pages 140 and 141).
The SY55 sequencer has 8 separate tracks, each of which can control a
separate multi-play instrument. Which track controls which instrument is
determined by both the multi-play setup MIDI channel assignments ("REF-
ERENCE" section, page 108) and the sequencer track channel assignments
("REFERENCE" section, page 119). Normally, sequencer tracks 1 through 8
are assigned to the correspondingly numbered MIDI transmit channels, so
tracks 1 through 8 control the multi-play instruments assigned to MIDI chan-
nels 1 through 8, respectively.
In the example below, preset multi-play setup P01 ("POP") is selected. In
the "POP" setup, bass, organ, trumpet and saxophone are assigned to channels
1 through 4, channels 5 through 7 are off, drums are assigned to channel 8,
and channels 9 through 16 are off. We therefore have 5 active instruments
which will be controlled by the corresponding sequencer tracks.
There are basically two ways to record using the sequencer — realtime or
step. Both of these methods are described below.
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