Sequencing With The; Single Pass Sequencing - Rodgers PR-300 Owner's Manual

Sequencing with the PR-300
Built into the PR-300 is a very powerful but user-friendly sequencer. A sequencer is a MIDI device which
records and plays back perfonnances.
After these performances are recorded, they can be edited and changed, allowing you to create great
sounding sequences by following a step-by-step procedure.
Two different types of sequencing will be covered in this manual - - - single pass recording and multi-track
recording. The following section walks you through single pass recording, in which a perfonnance is recorded
by the PR-300 and then played back. This perfonnance can use any combination of organ stops and PR-300
sounds. After the perfonnance is recorded, we'll show you how to save the perfonnance to disk, so that it can
be loaded into the PR-300 and played back whenever you want (like you did with the songs on the
demonstration disk).
In a later section, we'll show you how to do a multi-track sequence. Multi-track sequencing allows you to
build an arrangement instrument by instrument. By breaking things down into small, manageable pieces, you
can easily put together complex arrangements.
Single Pass Sequencing
The PR·300's sequencer can record and playback
any combination of organ stops and internal GS
sound generator instruments.
Each of these recordings (also called "Sequences")
can be saved to disk and stored for future
performance. Each of these sequences can have up
to 40,000 separate MIDI events. A high density
disk can save up to 99 different sequences, as long
as the total number of MIDI events on the disk
doesn't exceed 240,000.
Before we record any sequences, we need to make
sure the PR·300 is set to transmit its clock
messages. The Rodgers organ uses clock messages
from the PR-300 to determine when a recording is
being made or when a sequence is being played
back.
To check the clock message status of the PR-300:
(1) Press [MIDI].
MIDI
DISK
BEAT
: Int.
This button is located underneath the access panel.
If the
lit
prompt is not at the beginning of the ftrst
line, press [BEA
11.
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Press [BEAT] if the
lit
prompt isn't located here.