Song Recording - Yamaha Portatone PSR-640 Owner's Manual

Song Recording

With the powerful and easy-to-use song recording features, you can record
your own keyboard performances to a floppy disk as a User song, and create
your own complete, fully orchestrated compositions.
Each User song lets you record up to sixteen independent tracks. These include
not only the voices for the keyboard performance (R1, R2, L), but also the auto
accompaniment parts and vocal harmony effect (PSR-740 only; page 82).
The PSR-740/640 provides two different ways to record: Quick Recording and Multi Track Recording. In addition,
comprehensive editing functions let you "fine tune" the recorded song data.
Quick Recording .................................................................................................................. page 94
With this method, you can quickly and easily record a song, without having to make
detailed settings.
Multi Track Recording .......................................................................................................... page 96
With this method, you can record up to sixteen tracks independently, and even re-
record parts that have been previously recorded.
• Punch In/Out ...................................................................................................................... page 98
This function allows you to selectively re-record a portion of a song track (the
measures between the specified punch-in and punch-out points.
• Start Measure .................................................................................................................... page 98
This determines the measure at which recording starts. Set this when you
desire to start the recording in the middle of the song when re-recording. Keep
in mind that all previously recorded data from the starting measure is replaced.
Editing ................................................................................................................................. page 100
The four editing features below allow you to edit already recorded song data.
• Quantize ........................................................................................................................... page 100
This function aligns the timing of the recorded note data to a specified value.
• Setup Data Editing ........................................................................................................... page 102
This function allows you to change a variety of non-note settings.
• Naming User Songs ......................................................................................................... page 104
This function assigns an twelve-letter name to a recorded song.
• Clearing User Song Data ................................................................................................. page 105
This function lets you delete song data, either a specified part or the entire song.
After finishing your recording of a User song, you can play it back in the same way as one of the disk songs.
Data that can be recorded to User songs
• Tempo ..................................................................................................... page 38
• Time signature ........................................................................................ page 16
• Accompaniment style number ................................................................ page 34
• Section changes and their timing ........................................................... page 36
• Chord changes and their timing ............................................................. page 40
• Accompaniment volume ......................................................................... page 39
• Note on/off (key press and release) ..................................................... page 122
• Velocity (strength of key press) ............................................................ page 122
• Pitch bend, pitch bend range ........................................................ pages 30, 139
• Modulation wheel (PSR-740) ........................................................ pages 30, 139
• Footswitch on/off .................................................................................... page 12
• Foot Volume on/off ................................................................................. page 12
• Voice Change settings* .......................................................................... page 89
• Mixer settings* ........................................................................................ page 90
• Parameter Edit settings* ......................................................................... page 91
• Reverb type and settings ........................................................................ page 50
• Chorus type and settings ....................................................................... page 52
• DSP (including FAST/SLOW) on/off and type (PSR-640) ...................... page 53
• DSP1~3 (including FAST/SLOW) on/off and type (PSR-740) ................ page 54
• Harmony/Echo on/off and type ............................................................... page 56
• Scale tuning ......................................................................................... page 135
• Sustain on/off ......................................................................................... page 31
• Vocal Harmony settings (PSR-740) ........................................................ page 82
• Organ Flutes settings (PSR-740) ........................................................... page 32
The maximum amount of song memory is 65,000 notes for 2DD disks and 130,000
notes for 2HD disks.
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• User Songs are recorded on
floppy disks. They cannot be
recorded unless a floppy disk
is inserted into the disk drive.
• Songs recorded by the PSR-
740/640 are saved as SMF
(format 0) files. See page
125 for information on the
SMF (format 0) format.
• Being able to record note on/
off and velocity means being
able to record forte or piano,
crescendo or diminuendo,
and other subtle elements of
expression from the
keyboard as you play them.
• Note ON (key press), note
OFF (key release), and
velocity (strength of key
press) are MIDI data events
(playing information) (page
122).