Playing Back Songs - Yamaha ARIUS YDP-184 Owner's Manual

Playing Back Songs

This instrument can play Preset Songs, Songs you recorded on this instrument. In addition to listening to
these Songs, you can play the keyboard as the Song plays back.
MIDI Songs
A MIDI Song is comprised of your keyboard performance information and is not a
recording of the actual sound itself. The performance information refers to which
keys are played, at what timing, and at what strength—just as in a musical score.
Based on the recorded performance information, the tone generator (of the
instrument, etc.) outputs the corresponding sound. A MIDI Song uses a small
amount of data capacity in comparison to an Audio song, and allows you to easily
change aspects of the sound, such as Voices used, etc.
You can play back the following types of Songs in this instrument.
• Preset Voice Demo Songs (Voice Demo).
• Preset Songs: 50 classical Preset Songs ("50 Classics")
• Your own recorded Songs (see page 49 for instructions on recording)
• Commercially available MIDI Song data: SMF (Standard MIDI File)
The maximum size for playback on this instrument is approx. 500KB per single
MIDI Song.
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