Yamaha 205M User Manual

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Recording Your Performances and Creating Songs— Song Creator
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This method lets you create a song by entering notes one by one, without having to perform them in real time. This is 
also convenient for recording the chords and the melody separately.
Operation
Recording Individual Notes — Step Record
DIGITAL
STUDIO
SOUND
CREATOR
DIGITAL
RECORDING
MIXING
CONSOLE
PART
1
Select an existing song (page 75, 77) to 
which you want to add parts or re-record. 
If you want to create a new song, 
simultaneously press the [RECORD] button 
and the [TOP] button.
3
Press the [A] button to call up the Song 
Creator display.
2
Press the [DIGITAL RECORDING] button.
4
Using the [BACK]/[NEXT] 
buttons, select the “1 -16” 
tab for recording melodies 
and other parts, or select 
the “CHD” (Chord) tab for 
recording chords, and after 
selecting the “1-16” tab, 
select a record channel 
with the [F] (CH) button.
BACK
NEXT
5
Call up the Step Record 
display by pressing the 
[G] button.
Any voice, effect and other 
settings you make in the 
Mixing Console are automat-
ically cancelled when you 
call up the CHD (Chord) 
page.
The voices in the USER and 
FLOPPY DISK pages can-
not be selected for Step 
recording. You can select 
voices from the PRESET 
page; however, these may 
sound slightly different from 
the original voice.