Recording Your Performances And Creating Songs - Song Creator; About Song Recording - Yamaha PortaTone PSR-A1000 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 84), which lets you
record easily and quickly; Multi Recording (page 85), which lets you record several different parts; and Step Recording
(page 87), 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 and auto accompaniment parts. The recorded song can be stored to
internal memory or floppy disk (page 35, 41).
SONG
EXTRA
TRACKS
(STYLE)
REC

About Song Recording

I Quick Recording (page 84)
This is the easiest recording method, and lets you quickly record the piano
song you are practicing. You can select from four parts: right hand, left hand
and auto accompaniment/multi pad. For example, you can record only your
right hand performance, or you can simultaneously record both your right
hand and the auto accompaniment.
I Multi Recording (page 85)
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.
I Step Recording (page 87)
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.
I Song Editing (page 93)
The PSR-A1000 also lets you edit the songs you've recorded by the Quick
Recording, Multi Recording and Step Recording methods.
TRACK TRACK
2 1 REPEAT
(L) (R)
TOP START/STOP REW
NEW SONG SYNC. START
METRO-
NOME
FF
DIGITAL RECORDING
• The internal memory capacity of
the PSR-A1000 is about 260KB.
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 PSR-A1000 (Voice,
Style, Song, Registration, etc.) are
stored together.
• Songs recorded on the PSR-
A1000 are automatically recorded
as SMF (Standard MIDI File format
0) data. For details on SMF, see
page 143.
• 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 130).
• 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 95).
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