Yamaha EL-87 Owner's Manual - Page 122
Editing with Real Time Write
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(8) Editing with Real Time Write To enter sounds with Real Time Write: 1 Raise the rhythm volume, and turn off all the Upper and Lower keyboard voices by setting each section's volume to MIN. 2 Select the BEAT/QUANTIZE page or EDIT page with the Page buttons, then start the rhythm by pressing the START button to engage the Real Time Write operation. EDIT Page-Real Time Write NOTE: As in Step Write, you can record up to sixteen different instrument sounds in a single rhythm, with each instrument occupying one of the sixteen available tracks. The Rhythm Pattern Program has polyphonic capacity for playing up to sixteen sounds simultaneously. Instruments can only be entered if there are empty tracks remaining. If all sixteen tracks have been used, no subsequently recordings can be performed or heard. Only "CLEAR" is selectable on the EDIT Page in Real Time Write. q CLEAR As in Step Write, the Clear function is used to erase an instrument from the rhythm. However, the method of operation is slightly different. Hold down the Data Control button that corresponds to CLEAR in the display, and simultaneously press the key on the keyboard corresponding to the instrument you wish to erase. All instances of the selected instrument, irrespective of which tracks they occupy, will be erased from the pattern. You can erase all of the sounds on all recorded tracks of the pattern by holding CLEAR and pressing the lowest key (C1) on the Lower keyboard. Be careful not to do this inadvertently since all sounds will be instantly and permanently erased. 3 While the rhythm is running, play the percussion sounds from the Upper and/or Lower keyboards. Listen to the metronome click as you play the sounds, using it as a guide to keep in time and tempo. The pattern will automatically repeat (or "loop") every two measures. Each instrument sound is recorded and automatically assigned to a separate track as you play it. All events of a single sound are assigned to the same track; for example, if you alternately play a hi-hat sound with a snare drum, all notes of the hi hat will be recorded to one track and all notes of the snare drum to another track. 4 When you've finished entering instruments to the pattern, stop it by pressing the START button again, or by selecting the ACC. (Accompaniment) or SAVE pages. 118