Transferring Data Between The Psr-A300 And A Computer - Yamaha PortaTone PSR-A300 Owner's Manual

Remote Control of MIDI Devices
You can also use this instrument as a remote control device for the Digital
Music Notebook application on your computer (via the MIDI connection)
—controlling playback, stop and transport functions from the panel.
● Remote control keys
PSR-A300: To use the remote control functions, simultaneously hold
down the lowest two keys on the keyboard (C1 and C#1) and press the
appropriate key (shown below).
C#1
C1
PSR-A300 Panel Setting Transmission (Initial Send)
Sends the PSR-A300 panel settings to an external MIDI device.
When recording a PSR-A300 performance to an external sequencer or sim-
ilar equipment, you can use this function to send the current PSR-A300
panel settings so that when the sequence is played back the original panel
settings are automatically restored.
You can set Initial Send in the Function settings (page 60).

Transferring data between the PSR-A300 and a computer

The PSR-A300 includes 35 preset Songs and 135 Styles, but you can load
other Songs and Styles from your computer and use them in the same way
as the preset Songs as long as the loaded Song is SMF format 0* or SFF
(Style File Format).
Loaded Song data will be stored in Song numbers beginning with 041 and
one of the loaded style/s can be registered as the 136th style.
In order to perform the operations described in this section you will need to
use a computer connected to the Internet to download the free Musicsoft
Downloader application from the URL listed below.
* The SMF (Standard MIDI File) format is one of the most common and widely compatible
sequence formats used for storing sequence data. Most commercially available MIDI
sequence data is provided in SMF Format 0.
C6: Fast forward
B5: Start
A5: Stop
G5: Rewind
F5: Top (move to the beginning of
the song)
E5: Metronome ON/OFF
About MIDI
NOTE
• Remote control of MIDI
devices will function inde-
pendently of the PC2 mode.
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