Using A Custom Accompaniment - Yamaha PortaTone PSR-1700 Owner's Manual

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Repeat to Complete the Accompaniment ............................................................................................
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Stop Recording .......................................................................................................................................
RHYTHMIC
RHYTHM BASS
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START/STOP
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Save Your Completed Accompaniment to Floppy Disk .....................................................................

Using a Custom Accompaniment

STYLE
SELECT
AUTO
ACCOMP
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• Be sure to record your CUSTOM ACCOMPANIMENT based on a CM7
NOTES
• The "Are you sure?" confirmation will not occur when you clear recorded
• Custom accompaniments can also be recorded using the Step Record mode
• With some styles there may be a slight delay between the end of the section
• If the CUSTOM ACCOMPANIMENT becomes full while recording, "Memory
Repeat steps X, C, and V, selecting and recording the various tracks as re-
quired until your custom accompaniment is complete. You can also switch sec-
tions while recording, so you can record an entire custom accompaniment with-
out having to stop recording.
• If you change sections while recording and the current track contains no
NOTES
Stop recording by pressing the TRACK button being recorded or the AC-
CHORD
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COMPANIMENT CONTROL section [START/STOP] button. The [REC] indi-
cator will go out and "Now Processing" will appear on the LCD display panel
while the PSR-1700/2700 is processing recorded data. "Completed" will appear
TRACK
briefly when the data has been processed. The recorded accompaniment data will
automatically be stored in the CUSTOM ACCOMPANIMENT (style number
"00").
If you stop recording by pressing the [SYNC-START/STOP] button you will
be returned to step X, above (the record-ready mode).
When you've finished recording your custom accompaniment — or have re-
corded as much as you want to in the current session — save your accompani-
ment to floppy disk as described on page 58. Making this step a habit will pre-
vent accidental loss of data.
• The Custom Accompaniment data is retained in memory even when the
NOTES
To use a custom accompaniment simply select style number "00" and
use the Auto Accompaniment feature in the normal way (page 24).
PSR-1700
Styl=0 – 0:@Showtun
NOTES
chord. The parts will be automatically transposed to match the chord played
when the CUSTOM ACCOMPANIMENT is played back.
data while in the record mode.
— see page 50.
and beginning of the next cycle when recording.
Full" will appear on the LCD display panel and recording will stop.
preset data, "IllegalOperation" will appear on the LCD display panel to indi-
cate that recording is not possible.
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
data to floppy disk so you have a backup in case of accidental erasure.
PSR-2700
00:@Showtun 001:GrandPno
AccOff
• To use style data from disk, load the data into the PSR-1700/2700 as
described on page 60.
Styl=0 – 0:@Showtun
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