Recording your performance, Recording a performance quickly – Yamaha ARIUS YDP-181 User Manual
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Recording Your Performance
Owner’s Manual
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Recording Your Performance
The ability to record and play back what you’ve played on the instrument can be an effective prac-
tice 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 parts 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 two-part Song Recorder on the instrument allows the
recording of up to three User songs (U01 – U03) to the instrument. User songs can be saved to an
optional USB storage device.
Recording a performance quickly
This convenient and simple recording method lets you quickly record your performance without
specifying the recording parts — useful, for example, in recording solo piano pieces.
In this way, the performance is automatically recorded to right part.
Notice
To avoid erasing previously recorded song(s):
If the song contains data, the part indicator lights up green when you select a song.
Note that recording new data on this part will erase the existing data.
You cannot record the performance to the connected USB storage device directly. The
recorded songs are saved to the instrument automatically. If you want to save data to
the device, perform the Save operation (page 34) after stopping recording.
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TERMINOLOGY
Recording vs. Saving:
The format of performance data recorded on a cassette tape differs from that of data recorded on the
instrument. A cassette tape records audio signals. The instrument “saves” information regarding note
timing, voices, and a tempo value, but not audio signals. When you play back recorded songs, the
instrument produces sound based on the saved information. Therefore, recording on the instrument
may be more accurately called “saving information.” However, this book often uses the word “record-
ing” because it seems to make more sense.