Yamaha PORTATONE PSR-400 Owner's Manual page 29

2.
Recording will begin as soon as you play a note on the
keyboard or press the SONG MEMORY [PLAY/
STOP] button or the ACCOMPANIMENT CON-
TROL [START/STOP] button.
3.
Play the melody using the entire keyboard if the NOR-
MAL mode is selected, or the keys to the right of the
split point if the SPLIT, FINGERED, or SINGLE
FINGER mode is selected.
• The rhythm part of the currently selected style will play
automatically during recording. If you want to turn it off,
press the ORCHESTRATION RHYTHM button.
• Some of the preset styles (and custom styles based on
those presets) use percussion voices in parts other than the
rhythm part. Use the corresponding ORCHESTRATION
button if you want to turn the percussion voices off.
4.
Stop recording by pressing the ACCOMPANIMENT
CONTROL [START/STOP] or [ENDING] button, or
the SONG MEMORY [PLAY/STOP] button.
In addition to notes played on the keyboard, changes
in the following data can be recorded by the SONG
MEMORY MELODY banks:
Pitch Bend
Sustain on/off
Voice Number (including VOICE MEMORY bank number)
Auto Harmony (TYPE, ON/OFF)
Octave
Voice Volume
Reverb Depth
Pan
Multi Pad Play/Terminate
Dual Voice (Voice number, ON/OFF)
FEATURE REFERENCE
Data Edit Mode
It is possible to change any of the above parameters for
a specific track by pressing the appropriate MELODY
track button twice while holding the [RECORD] button.
The indicator of the selected track will flash slowly indi-
cating that the track is in the edit ready mode. Press a key
or the [PLAY/STOP] button and the track will play. You
can now change the parameters while listening to the
result. Changes affect that last occurrence of the corre-
sponding parameter in the track, as shown in the exam-
ples below. The last parameter change takes priority.
Press the [PLAY/STOP] button to exit when you're fin-
ished editing.
• It is also possible to listen to other recorded tracks while editing
the selected track.
Example 1
Melody
If you switch to voice number "02" here—
this voice number will be changed to "02".
Example 2
Melody
If you change the volume selling to " 2 1 " here...
the last volume change will be altered, like this.
(SONG MEMORY)
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