Types Of Songs - Yamaha PORTATONE PSR-S500 Owner's Manual

Types of Songs

The following four types of Songs can be used by this instrument.
● Preset Songs (the five Songs built into the instrument)............... Preset Song numbers 001–005.
● User Songs (recordings of your own performances) ................... USER Song numbers 001–005.
● Loaded Songs (Song data loaded from computer) ...................... USER Song numbers 006–
● USB Songs (Song data in the USB flash memory) ...................... Song numbers 001–.
The chart below shows the basic operation flow for using the preset Songs, user Songs, loaded Songs and
USB Song from storage to playback.
Your own performance
Song Storage location.
Preset Songs
(001–005)
The five Songs
built into the
instrument.
PRESET
Record
(page 32)
User Songs
(loaded Songs)
(001–005)
Song
SMF conversion
Save/Load
USER
Play
NOTE
• Different internal memory areas are used to store user Songs and loaded Song files
transferred from a computer. User Songs cannot be directly transferred to the loaded
Song area of the internal memory, and vice versa.
Computer
Song
Connect USB TO HOST
terminal and Transfer
(page 85)
User Songs
(006–)
Song
Using Songs
USB flash memory
Song
Connect USB TO DEVICE
terminal and Save/Load
(page 80)
USB Songs
(001–)
Song
USB
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