Yamaha 205M EN - Manual (Page 94)

Recording Your Performances and Creating Songs— Song Creator
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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.
■ 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 106).
Press the [6
▼
] button from the Open/Save display for Song to store the recorded data
(page 39, 45).
Quick Recording
REC TOP START / STOP REW FF REPEAT
NEW SONG SYNC.START
■ When creating a new song:
■ When recording over the part of an internal
song or a song on disk with your own
performance:
1 Select the desired song (page 75, 77).
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2 Select the voice and accompaniment style you want to use in the song.
If you want to record to the Layer/Left voices, make sure to set the [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 performance:
Press the [EXTRA TRACKS] button.
To stop recording, press
the [REC] button again.
If the “LAYER” or “LEFT”
button is on before pressing
the REC button, the corre-
sponding Layer and Left parts
are automatically recorded to
different channels.
The performance of track 1/2
is recorded to the channel
specified in the SONG SET-
TING display (page 129).
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 pedal, if the song start/stop
function is properly assigned to the pedal (page 131).
To stop recording, press the [RECORD] button again.
Recording can also be stopped by pressing down the pedal, if the song start/
stop function is properly assigned to the pedal (page 131).
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.
REC
EXTRA TRACKS
(STYLE)
TRACK 2
(L)
TRACK 1
(R)
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 39, 45).
CAUTION