P-90
Recording Your Performance
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Recording Your Performance
The ability to record and play back what you’ve played on the P-90
keyboard can be an effective practice aid. You can, for example, record
just the left-hand part, and then practice the right-hand part while
playing back the recorded left-hand part. Or, since you can record up
to two tracks separately, you could record the left- and right-hand parts
separately, or record both parts of a duet and hear how they sound
when played back. The P-90’s two-track Song Recorder allows the
recording of one User Song.
Recording to the First Track
CAUTION
Notes on recording
All user song recorder data will be retained in memory for about one week after
the power is turned off. If you want to keep your recorded data for longer peri-
ods of time, turn the power on for a few minutes at least once a week.
It is also possible to store the data to an external MIDI storage device such as the
Yamaha MIDI Data Filer MDF3 by using the Bulk Data Dump function described
on page 42.
1.
Make all the initial settings.
Before you begin to record, select the voice you want to record (or voices if you
will be using Dual or Split mode). Make any other desired settings (tempo,
reverb, etc.) as well. You might also want to set the volume.
You can also adjust the playback volume using
[MASTER VOLUME]
.
You can record your perfor-
mance (audio data) to a cas-
sette tape recorder or other
recording device via the OUT-
PUT connector (page 10).
Recording vs. Saving:
The format of performance data
recorded on a cassette tape dif-
fers from that of data recorded
on the P-90. A cassette tape
records audio signals. The P-90
“saves” information regarding
note timing, voices, and a
tempo value, but not audio sig-
nals. When you play back
recorded songs, the P-90 pro-
duces sound based on the
saved information. Therefore,
recording on the P-90 may be
more accurately called “saving
information.” However, this book
often uses the word “recording”
because it seems to make more
sense.
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2
MASTER VOLUME
MIN
MAX
BRILLIANCE
MELLOW
BRIGHT
DEMO
START/
STOP
TEMPO/
FUNCTION#
PRESET
TRACK
GRAND
PIANO 1
GRAND
PIANO 2
VIBES/
GUITAR
CLAVI./
HARPSI.
E. PIANO
2
E. PIANO
1
CHURCH
ORGAN
STRINGS
CHOIR
E.BASS
JAZZ
ORGAN
WOOD
BASS
ELECTRONIC PIANO
VARIATION
SPLIT
VOICE
TRANSPOSE
REVERB
METRONOME
TEMPO/ OTHER VALUE
SONG
EFFECT
TOUCH
ON
ROOM
HALL 1
HALL 2
STAGE
PHASER
CHORUS
TREMOLO
DELAY
HARD
MEDIUM
SOFT
FUNCTION
– / NO
+ / YES
REC
START/
STOP
When the unit is in Demo Song
or Preset Song mode, Record
mode cannot be engaged.
To avoid erasing data from
the track:
Press the [TRACK1/2] button. If
the indicator lights up green, the
track already contains data.
Note that the existing data will
be erased if you record new
data on the track.
Procedure
