P-255 Owner’s Man
u
al
21
Playing Songs
Your digital piano can play built-in Preset Songs, User Songs that you have recorded, and commercially available
songs. These songs can be in one of two different formats—MIDI or audio.
Song Category list
*: Shown only when a USB flash dri
v
e has
b
een pl
u
gged into the instr
u
ment.
**: Shown only when the USB flash dri
v
e contains data of the corresponding format.
User Songs and Import Songs
The term User Song is
u
sed to refer to songs recorded
u
sing
the instr
u
ment itself; those created in any other way are
referred to as Import Songs. Songs contained within a folder
named USER FILES on a USB flash dri
v
e are designated as
User Songs and handled in the same way. Songs located
o
u
tside this folder are handled as Import Songs. If the USB
flash dri
v
e pl
u
gged into the instr
u
ment contains no USER
FILES folder, one will
b
e created a
u
tomatically when yo
u
record a song to that dri
v
e. The recorded User Song will
then
b
e sa
v
ed in that folder.
Supported song data formats
Standard MIDI File formats 0 and 1
Standard MIDI File (SMF) formats are the most commonly
u
sed MIDI formats for storing seq
u
ence data. SMF format 0
is
u
sed for MIDI songs recorded
u
sing this instr
u
ment.
Waveform Audio File format
Identified
b
y a .wa
v
file extension, Wa
v
eform A
u
dio File For-
mat (WAV) is one of the most common formats
u
sed
b
y
comp
u
ters to record a
u
dio data. Yo
u
r digital piano s
u
pports
the play
b
ack and recording of 44.1-kHz, 16-
b
it, stereo .wa
v
files.
1
Select the correct song category using
the [SELECT] button.
You can cycle through the available categories
(
Aud
,
Sng
,
USr
, and
PrE
) with each press of
the button; however,
Aud
and
Sng
are shown
only when a USB flash drive has been plugged
into the instrument. If you wish to play an Import
Song (
001
to
999
), be sure to choose the corre-
sponding category.
2
Use the [-/NO] and [+/YES] buttons to
select a song number, “
rnd
” (random),
or “
ALL
”.
If necessary, press the [-/NO] and [+/YES] buttons
together to show Import Songs (
001
to
999
).
MIDI and audio songs
MIDI songs contain data created
b
y recording the actions of playing and releasing keys—in other words, they do not con-
tain act
u
al a
u
dio. This data is similar to sheet m
u
sic in that it indicates the keys that sho
u
ld
b
e played, as well as when and
how hard they sho
u
ld
b
e played, in order to reprod
u
ce a specific piece of m
u
sic. Using this data, yo
u
r digital piano’s tone
generator can recreate the so
u
nd of the recorded performance. MIDI songs are smaller than a
u
dio songs
b
eca
u
se they
contain less data; in addition, they also allow yo
u
to change the Voice
u
sed for play
b
ack and a n
u
m
b
er of other parameters.
In contrast, a
u
dio songs contain act
u
al recordings of the so
u
nd of a performance, and they store a
u
dio data in m
u
ch the
same way as a cassette tape or digital
v
oice recorder. A
u
dio songs can
b
e played
b
ack on porta
b
le m
u
sic players and
many other types of de
v
ice, making it easy for yo
u
to let others hear what yo
u
ha
v
e played.
Supported song types
Category
Song
numbers
Description
Aud
*
A
u
dio songs
stored on a
USB flash
dri
v
e
A.00
to
A.99
A
u
dio-format User Songs
recorded
u
sing the instr
u
-
001
to
999
**
A
u
dio-format Import Songs
either p
u
rchased or created
on a comp
u
ter.
Sng
*
MIDI songs
stored on a
USB flash
dri
v
e
S.00
to
S.99
MIDI-format User Songs
recorded
u
sing the instr
u
-
001
to
999
**
MIDI-format Import Songs
either p
u
rchased or created
on a comp
u
ter.
USr
MIDI songs
stored on
the instr
u
-
ment
U.00
to
U.09
MIDI-format User Songs
recorded within the instr
u
-
001
to
700
**
MIDI-format Import Songs
either p
u
rchased or created
on a comp
u
ter and then
transferred to the instr
u
-
ment.
PrE
Preset
Songs
(MIDI)
P.01
to
P.50
Yo
u
r digital piano contains
50
bu
ilt-in Piano Songs.
These correspond to the
sheet m
u
sic in the
b
ooklet
50 Greats for the Piano,
which is incl
u
ded for yo
u
r
con
v
enience and enjoyment.
Playing a song
If yo
u
wish to play a song sa
v
ed on a USB flash dri
v
e,
read the section “Working with USB flash dri
v
u
g yo
u
r flash dri
v
e into the [USB TO DEVICE] ter-
minal, and then follow the proced
u
re descri
b
ed
b
elow.
• If the USB flash drive plugged into the instrument contains a large number
of folders, a certain amount of time may be required to shown display con-
tent for song selection.
NOTE
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