Song Player/Recorder
20
I
At the end of your piece, press the
[STOP¥ª]
button.
Congratulations! You have just recorded
your first piece with your MR-200. Note
that the “
®
” next to “
All
” has changed to
“
„
”. This means that the organ tracks (12~
16) now contain music data (or silence, if
your organ does not use all five channels).
Listening to your recording
The first thing you probably want to do now is
listen to your recording.
A
Press the
[RESET¥|√]
button.
If you watch the display while doing so, you
will notice that the MEASURE indication in
the upper right corner returns to “
001
”.
If want to start playback from a different
measure, use the
[º¥BWD]
or
[FWD¥‰]
but-
ton to rewind or fast-forward.
As explained on page 19, the measure indications
may not coincide with the measures of what you
recorded if you worked without the metronome.
Finding the desired location may therefore be diffi-
cult, or even impossible.
B
Switch off the
[METRONOME]
button if you
don’t want to hear the metronome.
C
Press the
[PLAY¥®]
button to start playback.
You can change the tempo during playback
by first pressing
[TEMPO]
and then using the
[VALUE]
knob.
D
Press the
[STOP¥ª]
button to stop playback.
If you are satisfied with your rendition save your
piece now (see page 22).
If you are not satisfied and want to record
the piece again, first press
[RESET¥|√]
, then
return to step
D
on page 18.
Recording using a synthesizer, digital
piano, etc.
The MR-200 can take care of a lot of MIDI set-
tings in the background, so that you do not
have to worry about them. Let us now look at
how to record something using another MIDI
instrument than a Rodgers organ.
A
Connect the external instrument to the
MR-200’s MIDI sockets (see page 15).
In the illustration on page 15, replace
“Rodgers series organ” with “your key-
board”.
B
Switch on the MR-200 and your external
keyboard.
When you switch on the MR-200, it con-
tains no data at all. Its song memory is
therefore empty. After playing back a song
on floppy disk, however, you need to select
“
All
” mode to erase the data of the previ-
ous song. Before doing so, ask yourself
whether you have changed that song and
whether you wish to preserve the new ver-
sion. If you do, save the song before pro-
ceeding (see page 22).
There are two things you can do:
• Perform the following step, then set the time
signature and tempo –OR–
• Switch off the metronome.
See “Recording without the metronome”
and “Recording with the metronome” on
page 19 for a discussion of these two
options.