Chapter 3 Playing Back And Recording Songs; Playing Back Songs - Yamaha TransAcoustic TA2 Owner's Manual

Chapter
3
Playing Back and Recording Songs
The preset songs, your recorded performances, and commercially available songs are referred to as "Songs" in
this manual. This instrument can play or record MIDI Songs and Audio Songs.
Available Song format
MIDI In a MIDI song, the information of your keyboard
performance (such as keystroke and velocity) is
Songs
recorded. This is not a recording of the actual sound.
Based on the performance information, the tone
generator outputs the sound.
A MIDI Song uses a small amount of data capacity in
comparison to an Audio song, and allows you to
easily change aspects of the sound, such as Voices
used, etc.
Audio
An Audio Song is a recording of the performed sound
itself.
Songs
This data is recorded in the same way as that used in
recording cassette tapes, or with voice recorders, etc.
This data can be played with a portable music player,
etc., allowing you to easily let other people hear your
performance.

Playing back Songs

Songs that can be played (Song Category)
Song Category
Voice Demo Song (MIDI)
Preset Song (MIDI)
USB flash
drive*
Internal
memory
* The Song categories for USB flash drive are shown only when the USB flash drive is connected.
** The External Song categories are shown only when the data exist.
For information about the playback sequence of Song files in the USB flash drive, refer to page 68.
Songs
Song Number
d.01 – d.20
P.01 – P.50
User Song
A.00 – A.99
(Audio)
External Song C.00 – C.99,
(Audio)** 100 – 399
User Song
S.00 – S.99
(MIDI)
External Song F.00 – F.99,
(MIDI)** 100 – 399
User Song
U.01 – U.10
(MIDI)
External Song
L.01 – L.99
(MIDI)**
Data formats
SMF format 0
Standard MIDI File format 0 for
playback and recording. MIDI songs
recorded with this unit are saved in
this format.
SMF format 1
Standard MIDI File format 1 for
playback only.
WAV
Audio file format commonly used by
computers. This instrument can play
44.1kHz/16 bit stereo WAV files.
Audio Songs recorded on this
instrument are saved in this format.
Description
Demo Songs which effectively demonstrates each
Voice (page 66) on this unit.
50 classical piano preset Songs (page 66) stored to
this unit. These Songs correspond to the score in the
music book "50 Classical Music Masterpieces,"
included with this unit.
Audio Songs which have been recorded with this unit
and saved to a USB flash drive (page 27).
External Audio Songs, commercially available or which
have been recorded on a computer, etc. and saved to a
USB flash drive.
MIDI Songs which have been recorded with this unit
and saved to a USB flash drive (page 27).
External MIDI Songs, commercially available or which
have been recorded on a computer, etc. and saved to a
USB flash drive.
MIDI Songs which have been recorded to internal
memory of this unit (page 27).
External MIDI Songs (commercially available or which
have been recorded on a computer, etc.) transferred
from a computer to this unit.
Extension
.MID
.WAV
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