Songs (Pk7 Only); What Is A Song; The Song Performance; Selecting And Playing Back Songs - GEM PK5 Owner's Manual

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This chapter explains the PK7 Songs from a general point of view.

WHAT IS A SONG?

A Song is a multitrack recording of several instrumental parts, each corresponding to a track.
Songs can be loaded from disk in the following formats: PK, WK, CD and Standard MIDI File (SMF 0 or 1).
Tracks contain "MIDI events"; these correspond to several different types of MIDI messages. These messages
are divided into Note, Pitch Bend and Program Change messages, and a series of Control Change messages
which control aspects such as Bank change for the sounds, the Sustain pedal, Volume, the Pan and several
other parameters. The MIDI events captured by the tracks are not actual sounds, but messages which commu-
nicate with the PK7 internal sound generator, or with an external expander controlled by PK7. A Song is none
other than a list of MIDI events for each track.

THE SONG PERFORMANCE

A PK7 Song is governed by its associated Song-Performance which determines how it plays. When a disk-
based Song is loaded, or saved as a MIDI File format, all the parameters of the associated Performance are in
each track into the corresponding MIDI messages (Program Change, Pan, Volume, effects).

Selecting and playing back Songs

PK7 can store up to 7 Songs in the SONG Group of the USER section (memory permitting).

TO SELECT A SONG

Refer to the DISK chapter for explanations regarding how to load disk-based Songs and MIDI Files to memory.
1. Specify the number corresponding to the Song to playback (111-117).
For example: to select Song 112, first specify the hundreds with the 100+ button, then enter the next two
digits '1' and '2'.
The arrowhead to the left of the display will move automatically to the SONG menu function.
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NB. Once you have selected
a Song, you can scroll to the
next or previous Song with
the + or – buttons of the
Song Style selection keypad
before starting the playback.
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