Recording Your Performances and Creating Songs — Song Creator
PSR-A1000
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This is the easiest recording method — perfect for quickly recording and playing back a piano song you’re practicing, so
you can check your progress.
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Play back your new song
To play back the performance you just recorded, return the song to the beginning by
using the [TOP] button and press the SONG
[START/STOP]
button.
Playback stops automatically at the end of the song, and returns to the beginning of the
song.
You can edit the recorded song data from the
SONG CREATOR (1 - 16)
displays (page 96).
Press the [6
▼
] button from the Open/Save display for Song to store the recorded data
Quick Recording
REC
REW
FF
START/STOP
TOP
NEW SONG
SYNC. START
REC
EXTRA
TRACKS
(STYLE)
(R)
(L)
TRACK
2
TRACK
1
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When creating a new song:
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When recording over the part of an internal
song or a song on disk with your own
performance:
1
Select the desired song (page 67, 69).
1
2
Select the voice and accompaniment style you want to use in the song.
If you want to record to the MAIN/Layer/Left voices, make sure to set the
[MAIN]
/
[LAYER]
/
[LEFT]
buttons to ON.
Make any other desired settings (Reverb, Chorus, etc.) as well.
3
Simultaneously hold down the [REC] button and press the button
corresponding to the track you want to record.
You can select TRACK 1 or TRACK 2 and the EXTRA TRACKS for recording at the
same time.
To record your keyboard performance:
Press either the
[TRACK 1]
or
[TRACK 2]
button.
To record the auto accompaniment and
multi pad performance:
Press the
[EXTRA TRACKS]
button.
To stop recording, press
the
[REC]
button again.
If the "
LAYER
" or "
LEFT
" but-
ton is on before pressing the
REC button, the correspond-
ing Layer and Left parts are
automatically recorded to dif-
ferent channels.
The performance of track 1/2
is recorded to the channel
specified in the SONG SET-
TING display (page 121).
4
Recording starts as soon as you play the keyboard.
You can also start recording by pressing the SONG/STYLE
[START/STOP]
button. Recording can also be started by
pressing down the foot pedal, if the song start/stop
function is properly assigned to the pedal (page 123).
To stop recording, press the [RECORD] button again.
Recording can also be stopped by pressing down the foot pedal, if the song
start/stop function is properly assigned to the pedal (page 123).
E
ND
To pause, press the SONG
[START/STOP]
button. To
resume recording, press the
SONG
[START/STOP]
but-
ton again.
You can also use the metro-
nome click as a guide while
recording.
The sound of the metronome
is not recorded.
You can overdub a second
right-hand performance onto
Track 2 after recording the
first right-hand performance
(including the layer voices)
on Track 1. To do this, set the
[LEFT]
button to OFF and
repeat steps 2 and 3.
Turning off the power
automatically deletes your
recorded performance. If
you wish to save the
recording, make sure to
store it to internal mem-
ory (USER drive) or floppy
disk (page 35, 41).
CAUTION
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