Recording Your Performances And Creating Songs - Song Creator; About Song Recording; Realtime Recording - Yamaha Clavinova CVP-204 Owner's Manual

Recording Your Performances and Creating Songs
— Song Creator
With these powerful yet easy-to-use song creating features, you can record your own keyboard performances and store
them for future recall. Several different recording methods are available: Quick Recording (page 97), which lets you
record easily and quickly; Multi Recording (page 98), which lets you record several different parts; and Step Recording
(page 100), which lets you enter notes one by one. Songs can include not only the voice settings for the keyboard
performance (Main, Layer, Left), but also the effects and auto accompaniment parts. The recorded song can be stored to
internal memory or floppy disk (page 40, 48).
SONG
EXTRA TRACKS
(STYLE)
REC
NEW SONG

About Song Recording

There are two methods of recording songs: realtime recording and step recording.

■ Realtime Recording

This method lets you record performance data in real time. There are two ways to use realtime recording: Quick and
Multi.
Quick Recording (page 97)
This is the easiest recording method, and lets you quickly record the piano
song you are practicing. You can select from three parts: right hand, left hand
and auto accompaniment. For example, you can record only your right hand
performance, or you can simultaneously record both your right hand and the
auto accompaniment.
Multi Recording (page 98)
This lets you record a song with several different instrument sounds, and create
the sound of a full band or orchestra. Record the performance of each
instrument individually and create fully orchestrated compositions. You can
also record over an existing part on an internal song or a song on disk with
your own performance.
■ Step Recording (page 100)
This method lets you compose your performance by "writing" it down one event
at a time. This is a non-realtime, manual recording method — similar to writing
music notation onto paper. By using the Event List (pages 109 - 111), you can
input notes, chords and other events one by one.
■ Song Editing (page 106)
The CVP-206/204 also lets you edit the songs you've recorded by the Quick
Recording, Multi Recording and Step Recording methods.
When re-recording a specific section of an already-recorded song, use the Punch
IN/OUT function (page 105).
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CVP-206/204
POWER METRONOME SONG
ON OFF EXTRA TRACKS TRACK 2 TRACK 1
START STOP (STYLE) (L) (R)
REC TOP START / STOP REW FF REPEAT
MASTER VOLUME
NEW SONG SYNC.START
FADE IN / OUT
TEMPO
TAP TEMPO
MIN MAX
RESET
STYLE
ACMP AUTO FILLIN BREAK INTRO MAIN ENDING / rit. SYNC.STOP SYNC.START START / STOP
A B C D
OTS LINK
TRACK 2 TRACK 1
(L) (R)
TOP START / STOP REW FF REPEAT
SYNC.START
BACK
MENU
DEMO
GUIDE
HELP A
FUNCTION B
DIGITAL
C
TRANSPOSE STUDIO
SOUND
D
CREATOR
DIGITAL
RESET E
RECORDING
MIXING
CONSOLE BALANCE
PART CHANNEL
ON / OFF
PART
DIRECT ACCESS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
GUIDE
VOICE EFFECT
LCD
REVERB DSP VARIATION HARMONY / ECHO MONO LEFT HOLD
CONTRAST
NEXT
VOICE
PIANO & HARPSI. E.PIANO ORGAN & ACCORDION PERCUSSION GUITAR BASS
VOICE PART
F
ON / OFF
WOODWIND
BRASS STRINGS CHOIR & PAD SYNTH. XG
G LAYER
ENTER
H LEFT
MUSIC FINDER ONE TOUCH SETTING
I
1 2 3
J
REGISTRATION MEMORY
PIANO
DATA
ENTRY
FREEZE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
EXIT
DIGITAL
RECORDING
• The internal memory capacity of
the Clavinova is about 580KB.
Memory capacity for 2DD and 2HD
floppy disks is about 720KB and
1.44MB, respectively. When you
store data to these locations, all file
types of the Clavinova (Voice,
Style, Song, Registration, etc.) are
stored together.
• The microphone input signal (CVP-
206 only) cannot be recorded.
• Songs recorded on theCVP-206/
204 are automatically recorded as
SMF (Standard MIDI File format 0)
data. For details on SMF see
page 154.
• Playback of the recorded song
data can be transmitted from MIDI
OUT, letting you play the sounds of
a connected external tone genera-
tor (page 141).
• The volume level of each channel
of the song can be adjusted from
the Mixing Console and the set-
tings can be saved. Moreover, even
after you've set a voice for your
keyboard play during recording,
you can record voice selections, so
that the voice changes automati-
cally during playback (page 108).
USER
4
8 MEMORY