Recording Your Performances And Creating Songs - Song Creator; About Song Recording - Yamaha Clavinova CVP-900 Owner's Manual

Recording Your Performances and Creating Songs
— Song Creator
With these powerful yet easy-to-use song creating features, you can record your own keyboard performances and store
them for future recall. Several different recording methods are available: Quick Recording (page 95), which lets you
record easily and quickly; Multi Recording (page 96), which lets you record several different parts; and Step Recording
(page 98), which lets you enter notes one by one. Songs can include not only the voice settings for the keyboard
performance (Main, Layer, Left), but also the effects, auto accompaniment parts, and Vocal Harmony. The recorded song
can be stored to internal memory or floppy disk (page 39, 45).
SONG
EXTRA TRACKS
(STYLE)
REC TOP
NEW SONG

About Song Recording

■ Quick Recording (page 95)
This is the easiest recording method, and lets you quickly record the piano
song you are practicing. You can select from three parts: right hand, left hand
and auto accompaniment. For example, you can record only your right hand
performance, or you can simultaneously record both your right hand and the
auto accompaniment.
■ Multi Recording (page 96)
This lets you record a song with several different instrument sounds, and create
the sound of a full band or orchestra. Record the performance of each
instrument individually and create fully orchestrated compositions. You can
also record over an existing part on an internal song or a song on disk with
your own performance.
■ Step Recording (page 98)
This method is like writing music notation on paper. It lets you enter each note
individually, by specifying the pitch and length. This is ideal for making precise
recordings, or for recording parts that are difficult to play.
■ Song Editing (page 104)
The CVP-900 also lets you edit the songs you've recorded by the Quick
Recording, Multi Recording and Step Recording methods.
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CVP-900
METRONOME MIC. SIGNAL OVER
POWER
START STOP VOCAL HARMONY TALK EFFECT VH TYPE SELECT MIC. SETTING
SONG
ON OFF
EXTRA TRACKS TRACK 2 TRACK 1
STYLE L R
MASTER VOLUME
TAP TEMPO
GUIDE
REC TOP START STOP REW FF REPEAT
FADE IN OUT
MIN MAX
TEMPO TRANSPOSE
TAP TEMPO
RESET RESET
STYLE
ACMP AUTO FILL IN BREAK INTRO MAIN ENDING rit. SYNC.STOP SYNC.START START STOP
OTS LINK
TRACK 2 TRACK 1
(L) (R)
REPEAT
START / STOP REW FF
SYNC.START
BACK NEXT
MENU
DEMO
VOICE PART
A F
ON OFF
HELP
B G
FUNCTION
C H
DIGITAL
STUDIO
D I
SOUND
CREATOR
E J
DIGITAL
RECORDING
MIXING
BALANCE
CONSOLE
PART
CHANNEL
ON OFF
PART
DIRECT ACCESS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 EXIT
DIGITAL
RECORDING
GUIDE
VOICE EFFECT
REVERB DSP VARIATION HARMONY ECHO MONO LEFT HOLD
VOICE
PIANO & HARPSI. E. PIANO ORGAN & ACCORDION PERCUSSION GUITAR BASS ORGAN FLUTES
BRASS WOODWIND STRINGS CHOIR & PAD SYNTH. XG
LAYER
LEFT
ENTER
MUSIC FINDER ONE TOCTH SETTING
1 2 3 4
PIANO
DATA
ENTRY FREEZE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
• The internal memory capacity of
the Clavinova is about 3.3MB.
Memory capacity for 2DD and 2HD
floppy disks is about 720KB and
1.44MB, respectively. When you
store data to these locations, all file
types of the Clavinova (Voice,
Style, Song, Registration, etc.) are
stored together.
• The microphone input signal can-
not be recorded.
• Songs recorded on the CVP-900
are automatically recorded as SMF
(Standard MIDI File format 0) data.
For details on SMF see page 159.
• Playback of the recorded song
data can be transmitted from MIDI
OUT, letting you play the sounds of
a connected external tone genera-
tor (page 146).
• The volume level of each channel
of the song can be adjusted from
the Mixing Console and the set-
tings can be saved. Moreover, even
after you've set a voice for your
keyboard play during recording,
you can record voice selections, so
that the voice changes automati-
cally during playback (page 106).
USER
MEMORY