Play A Song Style In Real Time; Song Style Recording; Entering The Song Style Record Mode - GEM WK2 Owner's Manual

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Play a Song Style in real time

In almost all cases, the Song Styles will have all tracks engaged by the sequencer. You can
check this at a glance by looking at the status of the tracks in the display. If they are all on,
this means that they are all used by the sequencer.
If one or more tracks are off, this indicates that they are not engaged by the sequencer. If
you want to play along with the Song Style during playback with one of the keyboard tracks,
you can either:
A) disengage one of the keyboard tracks used by the Song Style, or
B) activate a keyboard track not engaged by the Song Style.
Note: the accompaniment tracks can only be deactivated - they cannot be used for real
time playing.
The two above possibilities are fully explained in the SONG chapter.
During the Song Style playback, it is possible to gain access to the keyboard tracks (UP-
PER 1, UPPER 2, LOWER) using the corresponding activators or function buttons (F7, F8,
F9).

Song Style Recording

Song Styles offer an excellent means of preparing backings for a soloist. For example, you
can record two keyboard tracks (Upper 2 & Lower) with accompaniments, then use Upper
1 to play the melody in real time with the Song Style in playback.
Song Styles record all panel interventions made during the recording: changes of Style, use
of the Intro, Fills, Endings, Fade In/Out, activation/deactivation of the effects, Harmony On/
Off and more. The events generated by the panel interventions are recorded in the COM-
MON track.
The COMMON and CHORDS tracks activate automatically when you enter Song Style
Record mode.
Before recording a Song Style, it is convenient to completely erase the sequencer memory
in order to exploit the total RAM capacity but more importantly, to be able to save the Song
Style without unwanted elements. As the Song Style is saved as an ALL data set, therefore,
whatever is contained in RAM will also form part of the Song Style; better, therefore, if the
Song Style is recorded with a clean, empty RAM to start with.
To clear the RAM of all the contents, refer to the CLEAR function towards the end of this
chapter. Use the Clear option "InitSEQ" (this will retain all your Performances and Sam-
ples).

ENTERING THE SONG STYLE RECORD MODE

1. Press the RECORD button: the first free Song Style location is automatically set up for the record-
ing.
At this point, if you press PLAY/STOP the sequencer starts to record and allows you to
record the real time tracks without the accompaniment.
While you play, the WK2 records the panel situation and all the operations that you
carry out.
The CHORD track is automatically activated only if empty. The keyboard tracks are
recorded only if their relative indicators are shown on in the display.
You can decide to start without or with the auto accompaniment.
Recording
If you have already started recording the keyboard tracks without the accompaniment, you
can continue by introducing the accompaniments as follows.
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