Yamaha 205M User Manual

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CVP-205/203
Recording Your Performances and Creating Songs 
— Song Creator
With these powerful yet easy-to-use song creating features, you can record your own keyboard performances and store 
them for future recall. Several different recording methods are available: Quick Recording (page 94), which lets you 
record easily and quickly; Multi Recording (page 95), which lets you record several different parts; and Step Recording 
(page 97), which lets you enter notes one by one. Songs can include not only the voice settings for the keyboard 
performance (Main, Layer, Left), but also the effects and auto accompaniment parts. The recorded song can be stored to 
internal memory or floppy disk (page 39, 45).
About Song Recording
This is the easiest recording method, and lets you quickly record the piano 
song you are practicing. You can select from three parts: right hand, left hand 
and auto accompaniment. For example, you can record only your right hand 
performance, or you can simultaneously record both your right hand and the 
auto accompaniment.
This lets you record a song with several different instrument sounds, and create 
the sound of a full band or orchestra. Record the performance of each 
instrument individually and create fully orchestrated compositions. You can 
also record over an existing part on an internal song or a song on disk with 
your own performance.
This method is like writing music notation on paper. It lets you enter each note 
individually, by specifying the pitch and length. This is ideal for making precise 
recordings, or for recording parts that are difficult to play.
The CVP-205/203 also lets you edit the songs you’ve recorded by the Quick 
Recording, Multi Recording and Step Recording methods.
MIN
STYLE
ACMP
MAX
AUTO FILLIN
POWER
ON
OFF
MASTER VOLUME
FADE IN / OUT
METRONOME
START
STOP
OTS LINK
BREAK
INTRO
SONG
EXTRA TRACKS
(STYLE)
TRACK 2
(L)
TRACK 1
(R)
REC
TOP
START / STOP
REW
FF
REPEAT
GUIDE
NEW SONG
TEMPO
SYNC.START
RESET
MAIN
TAP TEMPO
TRANSPOSE
RESET
ENDING / rit.
SYNC.STOP SYNC.START START / STOP
A
B
C
D
DIRECT ACCESS
MENU
DEMO
HELP
FUNCTION
DIGITAL
STUDIO
SOUND
CREATOR
DIGITAL
RECORDING
MIXING
CONSOLE
A
B
C
D
E
BALANCE
PART
PART
CHANNEL
ON / OFF
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
EXIT
BACK
NEXT
F
G
H
I
J
VOICE PART
ON / OFF
LAYER
LEFT
LCD
CONTRAST
ENTER
DATA
ENTRY
VOICE EFFECT
REVERB
VOICE
PIANO & HARPSI.
BRASS
MUSIC FINDER
PIANO
DSP
VARIATION
HARMONY / ECHO
MONO
LEFT  HOLD
E.PIANO
ORGAN & ACCORDION
PERCUSSION
GUITAR
BASS
WOODWIND
STRINGS
CHOIR & PAD
SYNTH.
XG
USER
ONE TOUCH SETTING
REGISTRATION MEMORY
FREEZE
MEMORY
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
1
2
3
4
SONG
EXTRA TRACKS
(STYLE)
TRACK 2
(L)
TRACK 1
(R)
REC
TOP
START / STOP
REW
FF
REPEAT
GUIDE
NEW SONG
SYNC.START
DIGITAL
RECORDING
• The internal memory capacity of 
the Clavinova is about 580KB. 
Memory capacity for 2DD and 2HD 
floppy disks is about 720KB and 
1.44MB, respectively. When you 
store data to these locations, all file 
types of the Clavinova (Voice, 
Style, Song, Registration, etc.) are 
stored together.
• The microphone input signal (CVP-
205 only) cannot be recorded. 
• Songs recorded on theCVP-205/
203 are automatically recorded as 
SMF (Standard MIDI File format 0) 
data. For details on SMF see 
page 151.
• Playback of the recorded song 
data can be transmitted from MIDI 
OUT, letting you play the sounds of 
a connected external tone genera-
tor (page 138).
• The volume level of each channel 
of the song can be adjusted from 
the Mixing Console and the set-
tings can be saved. Moreover, even 
after you’ve set a voice for your 
keyboard play during recording, 
you can record voice selections, so 
that the voice changes automati-
cally during playback (page 105).