Yamaha MD8 Manual Do Utilizador

Repeat, Cue List & Program Play

MD8—Owner’s Manual

Program Playback

The Program Play function allows you to compile a program of songs for custom playback.
The Program may contain up to 36 steps.

1. Press the [UTILITY] button and use the DATA dial to select the PRG Play

function.

2. Press the [ENTER] button.

The display shows

EDIT Prog

3. Use the DATA dial to select EDIT or NEW.

EDIT allows you to edit the current Program. NEW resets the Program. If you haven’t yet
created a Program, select EDIT (not NEW).

4. Press the [ENTER] button.

The display shows

s1:

(the lower case “s” means that the Program is being edited).

5. Use the CURSOR shuttle to select steps and the DATA dial to select a song

for each step.

To reset a step, select “

” .

6. When you’ve set all the required steps, press the [ENTER] button.

The display shows

S1: X¬ Y

and the MD8 waits in Pause mode (the upper case “S” indi-

cates that the Program can be or is being played).

7. Press the [PLAY] button to start Program playback.

The songs play back in the order specified in the Program.

8. Use the [

] and [

] SONG SEARCH buttons to select other steps in the

Program and the [PAUSE] button to pause playback.

To stop playback, press the [STOP] button.

When Program Playback is paused, selecting the TOTAL Time Counter mode allows you to
search for a specific point within the Program. See Locating Specific Points on page 52 for
more information.

Program Play settings are stored when the MD8 is turned off.

Program

S1: Song 3

S2: Song 5

S3: Song 2

S4: Song 9

S5: Song 1

S6: Song 7

S7: Song 6

S8: Song 4

S9: Song 9

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