Recording Your Performance; Recording To The First Track - Yamaha P-90 Owner's Manual

Recording Your Performance

The ability to record and play back what you've played on the P-90
keyboard can be an effective practice aid. You can, for example, record
just the left-hand part, and then practice the right-hand part while
playing back the recorded left-hand part. Or, since you can record up
to two tracks separately, you could record the left- and right-hand parts
separately, or record both parts of a duet and hear how they sound
when played back. The P-90's two-track Song Recorder allows the
recording of one User Song.

Recording to the First Track

MASTER VOLUME
MIN MAX
BRILLIANCE
MELLOW BRIGHT DEMO
Procedure
CAUTION
Notes on recording
All user song recorder data will be retained in memory for about one week after
the power is turned off. If you want to keep your recorded data for longer peri-
ods of time, turn the power on for a few minutes at least once a week.
It is also possible to store the data to an external MIDI storage device such as the
Yamaha MIDI Data Filer MDF3 by using the Bulk Data Dump function described
on page 42.
1.
Make all the initial settings.
Before you begin to record, select the voice you want to record (or voices if you
will be using Dual or Split mode). Make any other desired settings (tempo,
reverb, etc.) as well. You might also want to set the volume.
You can also adjust the playback volume using
26 Recording Your Performance
P-90
START/ TEMPO/
STOP FUNCTION# FUNCTION – / NO + / YES
METRONOME
TEMPO/ OTHER VALUE
3 4 5 6 2
ROOM CHORUS
HALL 1 PHASER HARD
HALL 2 TREMOLO MEDIUM
START/
STAGE DELAY SOFT
PRESET TRACK STOP REC
SONG REVERB EFFECT TOUCH
.
[MASTER VOLUME]
You can record your perfor-
mance (audio data) to a cas-
sette tape recorder or other
recording device via the OUT-
PUT connector (page 10).
Recording vs. Saving:
The format of performance data
recorded on a cassette tape dif-
fers from that of data recorded
on the P-90. A cassette tape
records audio signals. The P-90
"saves" information regarding
note timing, voices, and a
tempo value, but not audio sig-
nals. When you play back
recorded songs, the P-90 pro-
duces sound based on the
saved information. Therefore,
recording on the P-90 may be
more accurately called "saving
information." However, this book
often uses the word "recording"
because it seems to make more
sense.
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PIANO 1 PIANO 2 1 2 HARPSI. GUITAR
CHURCH JAZZ WOOD
ON
ORGAN ORGAN STRINGS CHOIR BASS E.BASS VARIATION
TRANSPOSE VOICE
When the unit is in Demo Song
or Preset Song mode, Record
mode cannot be engaged.
To avoid erasing data from
the track:
Press the [TRACK1/2] button. If
the indicator lights up green, the
track already contains data.
Note that the existing data will
be erased if you record new
data on the track.
SPLIT
ELECTRONIC PIANO