Yamaha P-90 Owner's Manual - Page 26

ENGLISH Recording Your Performance The ability to record and play back what you've played on the P-90 keyboard can be an effective practice aid. You can, for example, record just the left-hand part, and then practice the right-hand part while playing back the recorded left-hand part. Or, since you can record up to two tracks separately, you could record the left- and right-hand parts separately, or record both parts of a duet and hear how they sound when played back. The P-90's two-track Song Recorder allows the recording of one User Song. You can record your performance (audio data) to a cassette tape recorder or other recording device via the OUTPUT connector (page 10). Recording vs. Saving: The format of performance data recorded on a cassette tape differs from that of data recorded on the P-90. A cassette tape records audio signals. The P-90 "saves" information regarding note timing, voices, and a tempo value, but not audio signals. When you play back recorded songs, the P-90 produces sound based on the saved information. Therefore, recording on the P-90 may be more accurately called "saving information." However, this book often uses the word "recording" because it seems to make more sense. Recording to the First Track 3 456 2 1 MASTER VOLUME MIN MAX MELLOW BRILLIANCE BRIGHT DEMO START/ STOP TEMPO/ FUNCTION# FUNCTION METRONOME - / NO + / YES TEMPO/ OTHER VALUE PRESET TRACK START/ STOP REC SONG ROOM CHORUS HALL 1 PHASER HARD HALL 2 TREMOLO MEDIUM STAGE DELAY SOFT ON GRAND GRAND E. PIANO E. PIANO CLAVI./ VIBES/ PIANO 1 PIANO 2 1 2 HARPSI. GUITAR CHURCH ORGAN JAZZ ORGAN STRINGS CHOIR WOOD BASS E.BASS VARIATION SPLIT REVERB EFFECT TOUCH TRANSPOSE VOICE ELECTRONIC PIANO Procedure CAUTION Notes on recording All user song recorder data will be retained in memory for about one week after the power is turned off. If you want to keep your recorded data for longer periods of time, turn the power on for a few minutes at least once a week. It is also possible to store the data to an external MIDI storage device such as the Yamaha MIDI Data Filer MDF3 by using the Bulk Data Dump function described on page 42. 1. Make all the initial settings. Before you begin to record, select the voice you want to record (or voices if you will be using Dual or Split mode). Make any other desired settings (tempo, reverb, etc.) as well. You might also want to set the volume. You can also adjust the playback volume using [MASTER VOLUME]. When the unit is in Demo Song or Preset Song mode, Record mode cannot be engaged. To avoid erasing data from the track: Press the [TRACK1/2] button. If the indicator lights up green, the track already contains data. Note that the existing data will be erased if you record new data on the track. 26 P-90 Recording Your Performance