Tutorial: Song Mode
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2. Press the
Record
button located on the front panel. This prepares the PC3A for recording
on the current
RecTrk
. The
Record
button lights, and on the Song mode MAIN
page the
right of the top line will display REC. READY, which means that the sequencer will record
when the
Play/Pause
button is pressed (see below.)
3. Press the Play/Pause button located on the front panel. The metronome will play for 1 bar
and then recording will begin (see Chapter 12,
Song Mode and the Song Editor
for details on
setting metronome count off options.)
4.
Play your part for the current track, when finished, press the
Stop
button on the front panel
to stop recording. The Save Changes screen will be displayed where you can retry the last
performance of recording, save the song with the last recorded performance, or compare
your new performance with the last saved version of the song. For this example we will
name the song
My Song
under
ID# 1025
. See below for an explanation of this page:
Soft Button Functions On the Save Changes Page:
The
PlyNew
soft button allows you to play the song with your latest recorded performance. You
will
likely want to hear this first.
Pressing
PlyOld
will play the current song, minus the performance that you just recorded. You
can toggle between Play Old and Play New without restarting the song by pressing either button
while the song is playing. This is useful to check if your last performance was better or worse
than what was previously saved (if anything was previously saved.)
The
Locate
field allows you choose a start time for the old or new playback. This is useful when
you just want to hear a certain part of the song without listening to the whole thing. The
Playing
field displays whether to
NEW
or
OLD
data is playing.
Stop
halts the playback of either the Old or the New version of the song you are currently
auditioning. This also resets the song’s start location to either the default Bar 1, Beat 1 value, or to
whatever location you defined in the Locate field.
