Specifications

Recording Your Performances and Creating Songs — Song Recording
Quick Guide
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■ One song — sixteen MIDI channels.................................................................................
On the TYROS, a single song can contain separate data for up to sixteen MIDI channels. When record-
ing your own performance, you’ll need to assign each part you play to a separate MIDI channel.
With Quick Recording (on the previous page), the TYROS takes care of this chore for you — letting you
record a song without having to worry about which part goes to which channel. However, you’ll increase
your understanding of the recording process and gain greater flexibility and control by reading through
the sections below — which cover recording rules and characteristics, and show you how to use Multi
Recording as well as re-record an existing Quick Recording song.
Multi Recording
1 Press the SONG CONTROL [REC] button and the [TOP] button simultaneously
to prepare a blank song (“New Song”) to the Memory area for recording
(shown above).
2 While holding the [REC] button, select the channel to be recorded and assign
the part to the selected channel on the pop-up window that appears at the
bottom of the LCD display.
● Recording method and default part settings
Quick Recording Multi Recording
When record-
ing a new
song:
All channels are automat-
ically assigned for re-
cording, with each
channel assigned a spe-
cific part. (See chart at
left.)
Channels to be recorded
must be enabled for record-
ing manually. However,
parts are automatically as-
signed to MIDI channels, as
shown in the chart at left.
When re-re-
cording an al-
ready recorded
song:
The channel/part assign-
ments made in the origi-
nal recording are
maintained.
Channels to be recorded
must be enabled for record-
ing manually. The channel/
part assignments made in
the original recording are
maintained.
● Default MIDI channel/part assignments
MIDI channel re-
corded to a song
Default part when recording a
new song from scratch
1 RIGHT1
Keyboard
parts
2 LEFT
3 RIGHT2
4 RIGHT3
5 MULTI PAD 1
Multi Pads
6 MULTI PAD 2
7 MULTI PAD 3
8 MULTI PAD 4
9 RHYTHM 1
Style parts
10 RHYTHM 2
11 BASS
12 CHORD 1
13 CHORD 2
14 PAD
15 PHRASE 1
16 PHRASE 2
• You can change channel/part assignments from the defaults above before
actually recording. More specifically, even after entering the Record mode
(step #2 below) via Quick Recording, you can still manually enable recording
channels and set channel/part assignments via Multi Recording.
START/
STOP
SYNC START
NEW SONG
REC TOP REW FF
12345678
SP1 SP2 SP3
START/
STOP
SYNC START
NEW SONG
SP4
A
B
C
D
E
REC TOP REW FF
LOOP
SONG CONTROL
While holding the [REC]
button...
Set the desired channel to
REC.
Assign the part to the
channel set to REC.
* Select the channel to be recorded and
assign the part to the selected channel.
Here, set channel 1 to “REC.”
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