Recording Your Performance; Song Recording - Yamaha Portable Grand DGX-660 Owner's Manual

Recording Your Performance

This instrument allows you to record your performance in the following two methods.
• Song recording (MIDI recording)
With this method, recorded performances are saved to the instrument as a User Song, in SMF (format 0) MIDI
file. If you want to re-record a specific section or edit parameters such as Voice, use this method. Also if you want
to record your performance to each track one by one, execute "Recording to a Specified Track" of the Song
recording method. Since a User Song can be converted to an Audio file after recording (page 85), you may want to
use Song recording (with individual track recording) to first create a complex arrangement you would not other-
wise be able to play live, then convert it to an Audio file. Up to approximately 30,000 notes can be recorded for
one User Song.
• Audio recording (page 49)
With this method, recorded performances are saved to a USB flash drive as an Audio file. Recording is done with-
out designating the recorded part. Since it is saved in stereo WAV format of normal CD quality resolution
(44.1kHz/16bit) by default, it can be transmitted to and played on portable music players by using a computer.
This instrument allows you to record up to 80 minutes per single recording.

Song Recording

AUDIO
SONG
You can record up to five of your performances and
save them as User Song 101 through 105. This opera-
tion is for recording a new Song from scratch. If you
want to re-record a specific track, execute "Recording
to a Specified Track" on page 46.
NOTE
• Split Voice, Metronome, the AUX IN sound and MIC INPUT
sound cannot be recorded.
1
Press the [SONG/AUDIO] button once or
twice to call up the SONG SELECT dis-
play for Song recording.
If a USB flash drive is connected, pressing the
[SONG/AUDIO] button repeatedly toggles
between two displays: SONG SELECT and
AUDIO SELECT. If a USB flash drive is not con-
nected, this operation calls up only SONG
SELECT display.
You can select the desired User Song with the dial.
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2
If you want to record with a Style, press
the [STYLE] button then the [ACMP ON/
OFF] button to turn ACMP on.
Once you have set the ACMP to ON, don't call up
the SONG SELECT or AUDIO SELECT display
because doing so will set the ACMP to OFF.
3
Press the [REC] button to enable record-
ing.
If a User Song was not selected beforehand, this
operation selects the lowest-numbered unrecorded
User Song (from 101–105) as the Recording tar-
get.
Track 1 (and A) is automatically
selected for recording.
To cancel recording, press the [REC] button or
[EXIT] button.
NOTICE
• If all User Songs (Song numbers 101–105) contain
recorded data, Song 101 will automatically be
selected. In this case, you will record over and erase
any previous data of this Song.