Accompaniment And Melody Playback - Yamaha PortaTone PSR-1700 Owner's Manual

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Save Your Completed Song to Floppy Disk ........................................................................................

Accompaniment And Melody Playback

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Load a Song If Necessary ......................................................................................................................
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Select the Tracks to Play Back .............................................................................................................
ACCOMP MELODY
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TRACK
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Start Playback .........................................................................................................................................
RESET PLAY/ STOP
STEP
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Play Along If You Like ............................................................................................................................
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Stop Playback .........................................................................................................................................
RESET PLAY/ STOP
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When you've finished recording your song — or have recorded as much
as you want to in the current session — save your song to floppy disk as
described on page 58. Making this step a habit will prevent accidental loss
of data.
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If necessary, load the song you want to play back from floppy disk (refer
to page 60). This step can be ignored if the song you want to play is already
in the PSR-1700 or PSR-2700 memory.
Any number of MELODY tracks and/or the ACCOMP track can be
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played back at the same time. Press the SONG MEMORY TRACK buttons
corresponding to the tracks you want to play back — the indicators of the
selected tracks will light.
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Playback will begin as soon as the SONG [PLAY/STOP] button is
pressed. You can turn the ACCOMP and MELODY tracks on and off during
STEP
playback by pressing the appropriate TRACK buttons. During playback the
FWD
current measure and beat will appear on the LCD display panel.
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Play along on the keyboard if you like. You can also change the tempo
during playback.
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Accompaniment and melody playback will stop automatically when all
recorded data has been played back. You can also stop playback at any time
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by pressing the SONG [PLAY/STOP] button.
• The song data is retained in memory even when the power switch is
turned off as long as the backup batteries are installed or the AC plug
is connected. It is nevertheless a good idea to save important song
data to floppy disk so you have a backup in case of accidental eras-
ure.
• All SONG MEMORY tracks that contain recorded data are automati-
cally turned ON when the power switch is turned on or a song is
loaded from floppy disk.
• Measure number 1 is automatically selected whenever the power
switch is turned on or a song is loaded from floppy disk.
• Use the [RESET] button to return to the first measure of the song at
any time (see page 44).
• You can also start playback from any specified measure by using the
[MEASURE #] button (see page 44).
• The maximum polyphony is 28. If more than 28 notes are played at
the same time, some notes may be truncated. If you are using a sam-
pled voice an additional 26 notes are available for the sampled voice
only.
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