Yamaha 640 Owner's Manual - Page 92

Song Recording With the powerful and easy-to-use song recording features, you can record your own keyboard performances to a floppy disk as a User song, and create your own complete, fully orchestrated compositions. Each User song lets you record up to sixteen independent tracks. These include not only the voices for the keyboard performance (R1, R2, L), but also the auto accompaniment parts and vocal harmony effect (PSR-740 only; page 82). • User Songs are recorded on floppy disks. They cannot be recorded unless a floppy disk is inserted into the disk drive. The PSR-740/640 provides two different ways to record: Quick Recording and Multi Track Recording. In addition, comprehensive editing functions let you "fine tune" the recorded song data. q Quick Recording ...page 94 With this method, you can quickly and easily record a song, without having to make detailed settings. q Multi Track Recording ...page 96 With this method, you can record up to sixteen tracks independently, and even rerecord parts that have been previously recorded. • Punch In/Out ...page 98 This function allows you to selectively re-record a portion of a song track (the measures between the specified punch-in and punch-out points. • Start Measure ...page 98 This determines the measure at which recording starts. Set this when you desire to start the recording in the middle of the song when re-recording. Keep in mind that all previously recorded data from the starting measure is replaced. q Editing ...page 100 The four editing features below allow you to edit already recorded song data. • Quantize ...page 100 This function aligns the timing of the recorded note data to a specified value. • Setup Data Editing ...page 102 This function allows you to change a variety of non-note settings. • Naming User Songs ...page 104 This function assigns an twelve-letter name to a recorded song. • Clearing User Song Data page 105 This function lets you delete song data, either a specified part or the entire song. After finishing your recording of a User song, you can play it back in the same way as one of the disk songs. s Data that can be recorded to User songs • Tempo ...page 38 • Time signature page 16 • Accompaniment style number page 34 • Section changes and their timing page 36 • Chord changes and their timing page 40 • Accompaniment volume page 39 • Note on/off (key press and release page 122 • Velocity (strength of key press page 122 • Pitch bend, pitch bend range pages 30, 139 • Modulation wheel (PSR-740 pages 30, 139 • Footswitch on/off page 12 • Foot Volume on/off page 12 • Voice Change settings page 89 • Mixer settings page 90 • Parameter Edit settings page 91 • Reverb type and settings page 50 • Chorus type and settings page 52 • DSP (including FAST/SLOW) on/off and type (PSR-640 page 53 • DSP1~3 (including FAST/SLOW) on/off and type (PSR-740 page 54 • Harmony/Echo on/off and type page 56 • Scale tuning page 135 • Sustain on/off page 31 • Vocal Harmony settings (PSR-740 page 82 • Organ Flutes settings (PSR-740 page 32 • Songs recorded by the PSR740/640 are saved as SMF (format 0) files. See page 125 for information on the SMF (format 0) format. • Being able to record note on/ off and velocity means being able to record forte or piano, crescendo or diminuendo, and other subtle elements of expression from the keyboard as you play them. • Note ON (key press), note OFF (key release), and velocity (strength of key press) are MIDI data events (playing information) (page 122). The maximum amount of song memory is 65,000 notes for 2DD disks and 130,000 notes for 2HD disks. 92 90