Yamaha PORTATONE PSR-5700 Authorized Product Manual page 32

Recording Phrases
Select a PHRASE Pad For
Recording
Play a Phrase
Stop Recording
Phrase Playback
Press the PHRASE pad you intend to record to while holding the [REC/
STOP] button. The REC/STOP indicator will flash, indicating that the se-
lected pad is ready to record.
Recording begins automatically as soon as you play on the keyboard
using the ORCHESTRA 1 voice (i.e. the right-hand section of the keyboard
if the split play mode or AUTO BASS CHORD accompaniment is en-
gaged), and the REC/STOP indicator will light continuously as long as
recording continues.
You can recordphrases while AUT0 BASS CHORD accompaniment is playing
or stopped. In either case the phrase will be recorded in relation to the currently
set accompaniment tempo, so it is a good idea to record phrases while monitor-
ing the accompaniment to ensure that they are reproduced at an appropriate
tempo when played back with accompaniment.
Press the [REC/STOP] button to stop recording when you've finished
playing the phrase. The [REC/STOP] button indicator will go out when
recording ends.
Recording will stop automatically if the PHRASE pad memory becomes full
(approximately 160 notes per pad), or if another pad is pressed.
As long as the MULTI mode is selected, any recorded phrase can be
played back simply by pressing the corresponding PHRASE pad. The
phrase will play back whether the accompaniment is playing or not, but will
always play at the currently set tempo. The MULTI PLAYING indicator
will light while the phrase plays back, and playback will end automatically
as soon as the end of the phrase is reached. A phrase can be stopped while it
is playing by pressing either the [REC/STOP] button or the corresponding
pad button. It is also possible to play back several phrases at the same time.
Although the note data played by the phrase pads can not be recorded by the
PSR-5700 sequencer (Advanced Features manual, page 3), the phrase pad
events (i.e. the fact that a pad has been pressed) can be recorded. Phrase pad
data can be saved to and loaded from disk (Advanced Features manual, page
46), but can not be memorized by the Panel Registration feature (page 36).
Use the MASTER VOLUME control to adjust the playback volume of the phrase
pads.
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