Record Your Own Performance; Track Configuration - Yamaha Portable Grand DGX-305 Owner's Manual

Record Your Own Performance

You can record up to 5 of your own performances and save them as user
songs 031 through 035. Once your performances have been saved as user
songs, they can be converted to SMF (Standard MID File) format files and
saved to SmartMedia memory (page 76) and used with score display. So
when inspiration strikes and you create a great melody, you can save it in
both listenable and written score form. You can also record performances
using the performance assistant technology.
■ Recordable Data
You can record to a total of 6 tracks: 5 melody tracks and 1 style (chord) track.
Each track can be recorded individually.
● Melody Track [1] – [5] .................. Record the melody parts.
● Style Track [A] ............................. Records the chord part.
● Data Recorded On the Melody Tracks [1] – [5]
• Note on/off (keys pressed and released)
• Velocity (keyboard dynamics)
• Voice number
• Reverb type*
• Chorus type*
• Harmony note
• Sustain on/off
• Tempo*/time signature* (only when the style track
is not recorded)
• Pitch bend
• Pitch bend range
• Dual voice on/off
• Function sustain on/off
• Main/Dual voice – Voice volume, Octave, Pan,
Reverb send level, Chorus send level
* These data items are recorded at the beginning of the track. Changes made during the song will
not be recorded.

Track Configuration

To record your own performance, first use the SONG MEMORY [1] – [5] and [A] buttons to specify the track(s) you
want to record on. The track you record on determines the part that plays back later.
Track
1
Right-hand
melody
(MELODY R)
The parts played by each track
when a user song is played back.
Melody Chords
Track Track Track Track Track
2 3 4 5 A
Left-hand Other perfor- Style
melody mance data
(MELODY L)
● Data Recorded On the
Style Track [A]
• Chord changes and chord
timing
• Style pattern changes
• Style number*
• Reverb type*
• Chorus type*
• Tempo
• Time signature*
• Style volume*
Specify
track(s) and
record
• Track [1] – Will play back as the right-hand
melody part (MELODY R)
• Track [2] – Will play back as the left-hand mel-
ody part (MELODY L)
• Tracks [3] – [5] – Will play back as "other" per-
formance data.
• Track [A] – Will play back as the Style (auto-
accompaniment) part.
NOTE
• A maximum of 5 user songs can
be recorded. If you record a 6th
song after recording to the 5
available user song locations,
choose a song number (031 –
035) containing a song that you
don't mind erasing, or save the
user song data to SmartMedia
memory so that you can over-
write the internal user song
memory without permanently
losing your song data.
• Up to approximately 10,000
notes can be recorded if you
record only to the melody
tracks. Up to approximately
5,500 chord changes can be
recorded if you record only to
the style track.
• User songs cannot display a
score as is, but they can be con-
verted to SMF (Standard MIDI
File) format and stored to
SmartMedia memory (page 76),
from which they can be played
with score display.
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