Style Recording - Yamaha PortaTone PSR-550 Owner's Manual

Style Recording

The PSR-550 lets you record up to three original User styles which can be
used for auto accompaniment in the same way as the preset styles. User Style
data can also be saved to and loaded from floppy disk (page 57).
You can create a User style by using the internal style data as a starting point.
Select a preset style that is closest to the type of style you want to create, and
record the auto accompaniment patterns to each section.
The PSR-550 provides two basic ways to record styles:
• Style Recording — Rhythm Track ...................................................................................... page 98
• Style Recording — Bass/Phrase/Pad/Chord Tracks ........................................................ page 100
The four editing features below allow you to edit already recorded style data.
• Quantize ........................................................................................................................... page 102
This function aligns the timing of the recorded note data to a specified value.
• Naming User Styles ......................................................................................................... page 104
This function lets you name your original styles.
• Clearing User Style Data ................................................................................................. page 104
This function is for clearing (deleting) or part of the recorded style.
User Style Tracks
The tracks which can be recorded to the User styles are organized as shown in the
chart below.
Section
INTRO
MAIN A
MAIN B
FILL IN A
FILL IN B
ENDING
On the PSR-550, you can record up to a total of 48 tracks (6 sections x 8 tracks).
Data that can be recorded to User styles
• Note on/off (key press and release) .......................... page 107
• Velocity (strength of key press) .................................. page 107
• Pitch bend, pitch bend range .............................. pages 30, 122
• Voice number (drum kit number)* ................................ page 26
• Mixer settings* ............................................................. page 76
• Tempo .......................................................................... page 36
• Reverb type and settings ............................................. page 46
• Chorus type and settings ............................................. page 48
Up to approximately 1,950 notes for a section (a total of about 7,150 notes) can be
recorded to the PSR-550 style tracks.
Only one event of the item marked with * can be recorded for each track of the
sections.
96
Track
RHYTHM SUB CHORD1
RHYTHM MAIN CHORD2
RHYTHM SUB CHORD1
RHYTHM MAIN CHORD2
RHYTHM SUB CHORD1
RHYTHM MAIN CHORD2
RHYTHM SUB CHORD1
RHYTHM MAIN CHORD2
RHYTHM SUB CHORD1
RHYTHM MAIN CHORD2
RHYTHM SUB CHORD1
RHYTHM MAIN CHORD2
PHRASE1 BASS
PHRASE2 PAD
PHRASE1 BASS
PHRASE2 PAD
PHRASE1 BASS
PHRASE2 PAD
PHRASE1 BASS
PHRASE2 PAD
PHRASE1 BASS
PHRASE2 PAD
PHRASE1 BASS
PHRASE2 PAD
• Material recorded data is
retained in memory even
when the STANDBY switch is
turned off if batteries are
installed or an AC adaptor is
connected (page 136). It is
nevertheless a good idea to
save important data to floppy
disk so that you can keep
them indefinitely and build up
your own data library (page
60).
• User Style data is recorded
by playing voice R1 from the
keyboard. Voice R2, voice L
and the auto accompaniment
cannot be used.