Record Your Own Performance; Track Configuration - Yamaha Portatone PSR-295 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. You can also record performances using
the performance assistant technology feature.
■ 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 (DGX-205/203 only)
• Pitch bend range (DGX-205/203 only)
• Dual voice on/off
• Panel 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.
Melody
Track Track Track
1 2
Right-hand Left-hand
melody melody
(MELODY R) (MELODY L)
The parts played by each track
when a user song is played back.
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Chords
Specify
track(s) and
record
Track Track Track
3 4 5 A
Other perfor- Style
mance data
● 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*
• 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"
performance data.
• Track [A] – Will play back as the Style (auto-
accompaniment) part.
NOTE
• The Difference Between MELODY R and MEL-
ODY L ...
Songs are a combination of a melody and an auto-
accompaniment style. Normally "melody" refers to
the right-hand part, but in this instrument "melody"
parts are provided for both the right and left hands.
MELODY R is the melody part played by the right
hand, and MELODY L is the melody part played by
the left hand.
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 so that you
can overwrite the internal user
song memory without perma-
nently 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.