Portatone Owner's Manual

Using, Creating and Editing Songs
Recording Your Performance
PSR-3000/1500 Owner’s Manual
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Recording Your Performance
You can record your own performances and save them to the User tab display or a
external storage devices, such as a SmartMedia card. Several different recording
methods are available:
Quick Recording which lets you record performance conveniently and quickly,
Multi track Recording which lets you record several different parts to multiple
channels, and Step Recording which lets you enter notes one by one. You can also
edit the Songs you’ve recorded.
Recording Methods
There are three methods as shown below.
You can also edit Songs after they’ve been recorded (page 156).
For example, you can edit specific notes one by one, or you can use the Punch In/
Out function to re-record a specific part.
Quick Recording
This lets you conveniently and quickly record your performance.
1 Press the SONG [REC] and SONG [STOP] buttons simultaneously.
A blank Song (“New Song”) is called up for recording.
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Internal memory (User tab
displays) capacity
The internal memory capacity of
the instrument is about 1.5MB
(PSR-3000)/650KB (PSR-1500).
This capacity applies to all file
types, including Voice, Style,
Song, and Registration data files.
Quick Recording
➤ page 141
This convenient and simple recording method lets you quickly
record your performance—useful, for example, in recording solo
piano pieces. You can record to the [TRACK 1 (R)] or [TRACK 2
(L)] button, and also to the [EXTRA TRACKS (STYLE)] track,
which can be used for recording at the same time.
Multi track Recording
➤ page 143
This lets you record a whole Song including several different
instrument parts, to create the sound of a full band or orchestra.
Record the performance of each instrument part one by one
and create fully orchestrated compositions. You can also record
over already-recorded parts of an existing Song (Preset Song or
a Song on an external device, such as SmartMedia card) with
your own performance.
Step Recording
➤ page 145
This method lets you compose your performance by “writing”
it down one event at a time. This is a non-realtime, manual
recording method – similar to writing music notation onto
paper. You can input notes, chords and other events one by
one (realtime performance is not needed).
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