Recording Your Performance; Track Structure Of A Song; Quick Recording - Yamaha YPT-340 Owner's Manual

Recording Your Performance

You can record up to 5 of your performances as User Songs (User 1–5: Song numbers
103–107). The recorded User Songs can be played back on the instrument.

Track Structure of a Song

You can record your performance to the following two
tracks of a User Song individually or simultaneously.
Track 1:
Your melody performance is recorded to this track.
Track 2:
Your melody performance, or Style playback (Chord
changes and Section changes), is recorded to this
track.
Recording Data Capacity:
A total of approximately 10,000 notes or 5,500 chord
changes can be recorded to the five User Songs.

Quick Recording

The operation is convenient for recording a new Song
without having to specify a track.
1
Make the desired settings such as Voice
and Style settings.
If you want to record only the melody perfor-
mance, turn ACMP off (page 17). If you want to
record Style playback as well as melody perfor-
mance, turn ACMP on (page 17).
2
Press the [REC] button to enable the
Record mode.
On the display, the lowest-numbered unrecorded User
Song ("User 1"–"User 5") appears. If you want to select
another Song, use the [+] and [-] buttons.
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To exit from the Record mode, press the [REC]
button again to stop flashing on the display.
NOTICE
• If all User Songs contain recorded data, "User 1" will
automatically be selected. In this case, you will record
over and erase any previous data in "User 1, " so be
careful that you won't be erasing any material you
want to keep!
NOTE
• ACMP cannot be turned on or off in this status while you
can select another Style in this status by using the
[STYLE] and Number buttons.
3
Play the keyboard to start recording.
If ACMP is turned on, you can independently
record just the rhythm sound of Style playback by
pressing the [START/STOP] button then changing
the Section (page 19).
Split point
36 48
4
Press the [START/STOP] button to stop
recording.
When using a Style, you can stop recording also
by pressing the [INTRO/ENDING/rit.] button then
waiting until playback ends.
NOTICE
• After Recording stops, a "Writing!" message is shown
on the display for a while. Never attempt to turn the
power off while this is shown in the display. Doing so
can damage the internal memory and result in a loss
of data.
5
To play back the recorded Song, press
the [START/STOP] button.
User Song Number
001
Flashes
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