Quick Recording - Yamaha PortaTone PSR-A1000 Owner's Manual

Recording Your Performances and Creating Songs — Song Creator

Quick Recording

This is the easiest recording method — perfect for quickly recording and playing back a piano song you're practicing, so
you can check your progress.
I When creating a new song:
1
REC
NEW SONG
2
Select the voice and accompaniment style you want to use in the song.
If you want to record to the MAIN/Layer/Left voices, make sure to set the [MAIN]/[LAYER]/[LEFT] buttons to ON.
Make any other desired settings (Reverb, Chorus, etc.) as well.
3
Simultaneously hold down the [REC] button and press the button
corresponding to the track you want to record.
You can select TRACK 1 or TRACK 2 and the EXTRA TRACKS for recording at the
same time.
To record your keyboard performance:
Press either the [TRACK 1] or [TRACK 2] button.
To record the auto accompaniment and
multi pad performance:
Press the [EXTRA TRACKS] button.
To stop recording, press
the [REC] button again.
4
Recording starts as soon as you play the keyboard.
You can also start recording by pressing the SONG/STYLE
[START/STOP] button. Recording can also be started by
pressing down the foot pedal, if the song start/stop
function is properly assigned to the pedal (page 123).
To stop recording, press the [RECORD] button again.
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Recording can also be stopped by pressing down the foot pedal, if the song
ND
start/stop function is properly assigned to the pedal (page 123).
I Play back your new song
To play back the performance you just recorded, return the song to the beginning by
using the [TOP] button and press the SONG [START/STOP] button.
Playback stops automatically at the end of the song, and returns to the beginning of the
song.
You can edit the recorded song data from the SONG CREATOR (1 - 16) displays (page 96).
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Press the [6 ] button from the Open/Save display for Song to store the recorded data
(page 35, 41).
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PSR-A1000
TOP START/STOP REW FF
SYNC. START
I When recording over the part of an internal
song or a song on disk with your own
performance:
1
Select the desired song (page 67, 69).
EXTRA TRACK TRACK
REC
TRACKS 2
(STYLE) (L)
If the "LAYER" or "LEFT" but-
ton is on before pressing the
REC button, the correspond-
ing Layer and Left parts are
automatically recorded to dif-
ferent channels.
The performance of track 1/2
is recorded to the channel
specified in the SONG SET-
1 TING display (page 121).
(R)
You can overdub a second
right-hand performance onto
Track 2 after recording the
first right-hand performance
(including the layer voices)
on Track 1. To do this, set the
[LEFT] button to OFF and
repeat steps 2 and 3.
To pause, press the SONG
[START/STOP] button. To
resume recording, press the
SONG [START/STOP] but-
ton again.
You can also use the metro-
nome click as a guide while
recording.
The sound of the metronome
is not recorded.
CAUTION
Turning off the power
automatically deletes your
recorded performance. If
you wish to save the
recording, make sure to
store it to internal mem-
ory (USER drive) or floppy
disk (page 35, 41).