Yamaha Portable Grand DGX-640 Owner's Manual page 57

Recording to a specified track
Recordable Data
You can record up to a total of 6 tracks: 5 melody tracks and 1 style (chord)
track. Each track can be recorded individually.
 SONG MEMORY (Track) [1]–[5] .. Record the melody parts.
 SONG MEMORY (Track) [A]........ Records the style pattern and chord parts.
Melody
Track Track Track
1 2 3
Track Mute
This instrument allows you to choose whether recorded tracks will play back
while you are recording or playing back other tracks (page 84).
1
From the MAIN display press the [SONG] button, then use the
dial to select the user song number (031–035) you want to
record to.
2
Select the track(s) you want to record to and confirm your selec-
tion on the display.
 Record a Melody Track and the Accompaniment Track Together
Press the melody track button [1]–[5] you want to record to while holding the
[REC] button.
Next, press the [A] button while holding the [REC] button.
The selected tracks will be highlighted in the display.
Press and
hold
Chords
Specify track(s)
and record
Track Track Style
4 5 Track
Record Your Own Performance
Rotate the dial to select a song
number between 031 and 035.
NOTICE
Track 1 and Style track
will be highlighted
NOTE
• Up to approximately 30,000
notes can be recorded for
the five user songs if you
record only to the melody
tracks.
• User songs are saved as
SMF (Standard MIDI File)
format 0 files. Refer to page
108 for information on SMF
files.
• If you record to track that
contains previously-
recorded data the previ-
ous data will be overwritten
and lost.
NOTE
• Style accompaniment is
automatically turned on
when you select the style
track [A] for recording.
• Style accompaniment can-
not turned on or off while
recording is in progress.
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