Roland AT 5 - Manual (Page 54)

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Record and Playback Your Performance
Layering a New Recording onto SMF
Music Files
You can load commercially available SMF music files into the AT-5, and
record your own performance on top of it. During recording, the data
you’ve loaded will be played back, while everything you play will be
recorded.
1.
Insert a floppy disk containing commercially available SMF
music files into the floppy disk drive.
2.
Press the Select [-] [+] buttons to select the music file that
you wish to load into the AT-5.
3.
Press the [Rec] button to enter record-ready mode.
The selected music file will be loaded.
While performance data is being loaded, the following screen will appear.
The [Rec] button indicator will light, and the [Play/Stop] button indicator
will blink.
4.
Make the panel settings that you wish to record.
5.
Press the [Play/Stop] button to begin recording.
When you press the [Play/Stop] button, the metronome will play two
measures (bars) of count-in before recording begins.
As you record, the music file that was loaded into the AT-5 will play back.
Your own performance (on the upper and lower parts) will be recorded on
top of the music files that you’ve loaded.
When the music files include performance data on Channel 1, Channel 3, or
Channel 4, that performance data is deleted, and the performance on the
upper part or lower part is recorded.
6.
Press the [Play/Stop] button to stop recording.
Part AT-5 Track Channel of the SMF
Lower Lower 3
Upper Upper 1, 4
The performance data you
recorded can be saved on a
floppy disk (p. 51).
NOTE
Commercially sold music
files can also be loaded into
the AT-5, but for reasons of
copyright protection,
cannot be saved in SMF
format.
You can re-record the bass
performance. For details
refer to “Re-recording the
Bass Performance” (p. 60).
NOTE
The performances of
Channel 2 in SMF music
files are deleted when bass
performances are recorded
over again.