Song Creator (Digital Recording) - Yamaha Tyros2 Owner's Manual

Song Creator (Digital Recording)

This section explains operations not covered in the Quick Guide, including Step Recording and re-recording or editing
existing song data. For basic information on recording a song using Quick Recording and Multi Recording, refer to the
Quick Guide.
Realtime Recording and Step Recording
You can record your keyboard performance as MIDI data in two different ways: Realtime and Step.
● Realtime Recording
● Step Recording
Punch In/Out
This Realtime recording method lets you re-record only over a specific area of the already-recorded song.
Data between the Punch In point and the Punch Out point is overwritten with the material recorded. Keep in mind that the parts before and after
the Punch In/Out section are not recorded over—they play back normally to guide you in and out of the recording.
You can specify the Punch In and Punch Out points as measure numbers beforehand for automatic operation, or manually execute the Punch
In/Out recording by using a Foot Pedal or simply by playing the keyboard.
Set the Punch In/Out related parameters on the [DIGITAL RECORDING] → SONG CREATOR → REC MODE display and re-record the
already-recorded song by following the instructions described in the "Quick Guide."
Step Recording using the Event List
Song data is made up of various recorded MIDI events, including global events for the entire song and specific events for each channel. The
MIDI Event List is a useful Song Creator tool that arranges all events in a song in chronological order (in measures, beats, clocks), and allows
you to make detailed changes to those events. Among the events included are:
• Chord/Section ..............................These style playback events let you enter Chords and Sections (Intro, Main, Ending, and so on).
• MIDI channel (1–16) data............Channel-specific events, such as note on/off, program change (voice number), control change mes-
• System Exclusive Messages.........Events that affect all channels, such as tempo and beat (time signature)
• Lyrics............................................Song Lyric data
Remember that you can also use Realtime Recording to re-record a song that has already been created with Step Recording.
Basic Procedure (Song Creator)
1
Select an already-recorded
song or a new song (page 55).
Press the [DIGITAL
2
RECORDING] button.
Press the [SONG CREATOR]
3
LCD button.
This method records performance data in real time, overwriting any data already present in the destination
channel. The new data replaces the previous data. This method is covered in the "Quick Guide."
This method lets you compose your performance by "writing" it down one event at a time. This is a non-
realtime, manual recording method—similar to writing music notation onto paper. By using the Event List
(pages 125, 127, 133), you can input notes, chords and other events one by one.
sages (including volume and pan of the Mixing Console settings), and pitch bend
NOTE
• From the Song Creator display you can fast-forward or rewind through the song as
desired—letting you quickly navigate to and check different sections of the song.
Determines the Punch In/Out settings
on this page if you wish to re-record the
already-recorded song.
This page lets you edit the already-recorded
4
song data by converting for each channel.
The operations corresponding to step #4 are covered in the following page.
Quick Guide on pages 55–58
Pages 125, 127, 133
Re-record the song by fol-
lowing the instructions
(from step #2 to end) in the
Quick Guide.
These pages let you create
the song data by using the
MIDI event list.
CAUTION
After completing the song creation,
make sure to execute the Save opera-
tion. The recorded song will be lost if you
change to another song or you turn the
power off without executing the save
operation.
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