Song Recording; Recording A Melody Track - Yamaha PortaTone PSR-320 Owner's Manual

Song Recording

The PSR-320/420 SONG TRACKS allows you to record and play back
complete songs including chord sequences created using the Auto
Accompaniment feature and a melody line you play on the keyboard. The
SONG TRACKS include one ACCOMP track and two MELODY tracks.
The PSR-320/420 can retain up to 3 complete songs in internal memory,
and these can be selected and played back simply by selecting the
appropriate SONG.
• Material recorded on the SONG TRACKs is retained in memory even when the POWER switch is
turned OFF if batteries are present or an AC adaptor is connected.
• The recorded data will be lost if the power is turned off, the AC adaptor is unplugged, or the bat-
teries fail during recording.
The SONG MELODY tracks record the following operations and data:
• Note on/off
• Velocity
• Voice number
• Octave
• Pan
• Dual voice on/off
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Select a SONG Number
If necessary, use the [FUNCTION] buttons to select the SONG function,
and then the [–/NO] and [+/YES] buttons to select the SONG number
("17", "18", or "19") to which you want to record.
FUNCTION
REGIST MEMORY
MULTI PAD
DUAL VOICE
SPLIT VOICE
DIGITAL EFFECT
VOICE
U17
STYLE
SONG
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REGIST MEMORY
REGIST
TEMPO TRANSPOSE
MULTI PAD
RHYTHM BASS CHORD
1 1
DUAL VOICE
ON /
SPLIT VOICE OFF
HARMONY
1 39 28 19 30
VOICE
OVERALL
VOL
DIGITAL EFFECT
ACCOMP TRACK

Recording a Melody Track

• Dual voice (Voice number, volume, octave, pan)
• Keyboard volume*
• Harmony on/off, type
• Digital effect on/off, type (Sustain Pedal on/off)
• (Tempo common to melody & accomp tracks)
* Recorded only at the beginning of a song; changes cannot be
made during recording.
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VOICE
U17
STYLE
SONG
HARMONY
OVERALL
MINUS ONE
BEAT
OTS
DIGITAL
EFFECT
0 01
MEASURE REPEAT
PAD PHRASE ACCOMP MELODY MELODY TOUCH
1
1 2
DUAL
REC REC REC
101 101
HARMONY
GUIDE
SONG TRACK
NORMAL
SPLIT
SINGLE
FINGERED
PSR-420
• Up to approximately 1300 notes
(for 3 songs) can be recorded in
the PSR-320/420 MELODY
tracks.
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