Recording Your Performance - Yamaha Arius YDP-S31 Owner's Manual

Recording your Performance

Your digital piano's recording function enables you to record your per-
formance of one song.
The recorded performance is called the "user song."
Follow the steps below to record and play back your performance.
Audio recording and data recording
Cassette tape recordings use a different data format than this instrument.
Cassette tapes record audio signals. On the other hand, this instrument
records information about the notes and voices being played and about the
timing and tempo of those notes. It does not record audio signals. When
you play back a recorded performance on this instrument, its internal tone
generator reproduces the sound according to the recorded information.
CAUTION
Be careful not to erase the recorded data:
After you record a performance on this instrument, the [PLAY] button indicator
lights up. When this indicator remains on, recording another performance will
erase the recorded data.
Procedure
1.
Select a voice and other settings for the recording.
While holding down the
select the desired voice(s). (See page 18.)
If you desire, you can select other settings, such as the reverb setting.
Use the
[MASTER VOLUME]
tening level. You can also use the
ume level during playback.
2.
Engage Record mode.
Press the button.
[REC]
The [REC] button indicator lights up.
Press the button again if you wish to cancel Record mode.
[REC]
3.
Start recording.
Recording starts as soon as you play the keyboard.
Alternatively, press the
4.
Stop recording.
Press the button.
[REC]
button, press one of the C1–F1 keys to
[PIANO/VOICE]
control to adjust the volume to a comfortable lis-
[MASTER VOLUME]
[PLAY] button to start recording.
control to adjust the vol-
You cannot engage Record mode
while a demo song is playing.
Recording capacity
"Recording capacity" is the
maximum amount of perfor-
mance data that you can
record. This instrument's
recording capacity is 65 KB
(approximately 11,000 notes).
Changing the settings for the
recorded user song
To change the settings for the
recorded user song, engage
Record mode, change the settings
as you desire, then stop recording
without playing the keyboard.
For example, if you wish to
change the voice of the user
song, press the [REC] button to
engage Record mode (see Step
2), then select a different voice
(see Step 1). Without playing the
keyboard, press the [REC] button
to stop recording (see Step 4).
CAUTION
Do not turn off the power to
this instrument while it is
recording the data in its inter-
nal memory (that is, while the
[REC] and [PLAY] button indi-
cators are flashing). Other-
wise, all recorded data,
including the data being
recorded, will be lost.
You can save the recorded user
song to a computer. You can also
load the user song data from a
computer and play it back on this
instrument. (See page 31.)
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