Yamaha Portatone PSR-84 Owner's Manual page 30

FEATURE REFERENCE (soNG MEMORY)
2, Recording will begin as soon as you play a note on the
keyboard or press the SONG MEMORY [PLAY/
STOP] button or the ACCOMPANIMENT CON-
TROL [START/STOP] button.
3. Play the melody using the entire keyboard if the NOR-
MAL mode is selected, or the keys to the right of the
split point if the SPLIT, FINGERED, or SINGLE
FINGER mode is selected.
* The rhythm part of the currently selected style will play
automatically during recording. If you want to turn it off,
press the ORCHESTRATION RHYTHM button.
* Some of the preset styles (and custom styles based on
those presets) use percussion voices in parts other than the
rhythm part. Use the corresponding ORCHESTRATION
button if you want to turn the percussion voices off.
4. Stop recording by pressing the ACCOMPANIMENT
CONTROL [START/STOP] or [ENDING] button, or
the SONG MEMORY [PLAY/STOP] button.
SONG MEMORY
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ENDING START/STOP PLAY/STOP
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* In addition to notes played on the keyboard, changes
in the following data can be recorded by the SONG
MEMORY MELODY banks:
* Pitch Bend
* Sustain on/off
* Voice Number (including VOICE MEMORY bank number)
* Auto Harmony (TYPE, ON/OFF)
* Octave
* Voice Volume
* Reverb Depth
Pan
* Multi Pad Play/Terminate
* Dual Voice (Voice number, ON/OFF)
Data Edit Mode
It is possible to change any of the above parameters for
a specific track by pressing the appropriate MELODY
track button twice while holding the [RECORD] button.
The indicator of the selected track will flash slowly indi-
cating that the track is in the edit ready mode. Press a key
or the [PLAY/STOP] button and the track will play. You
can now change the parameters while listening to the
result. Changes affect that last occurrence of the corre-
sponding parameter in the track, as shown in the exam-
ples below. The last parameter change takes priority.
Press the [PLAY/STOP] button to exit when you're fin-
ished editing. :
MELODY
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+ It is also possible to listen to other recorded tracks while editing
the selected track.
* Voice memory ON/OFF events cannot be added or edited in the
data edit mode.
Example 1
Melody
SAP dL Ad dL IL AN o
A A
Voice "00" Voice "01" |
E If you switch to voice number "02" here...
this voice number will be changed to "02".
Example 2
Melody
JAM AIAN
|
If you change the volume setting to "21" here...
the last volume change wil! be altered, like this.
|
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