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PSR-E443 Owner’s Manual
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Quick Guide
Recording Your Performance
You can record up to 10 of your performances as User Songs. The recorded User
Songs can be played back on the instrument.
Melody Tracks [1]–[5]
The melody performance of the keyboard will be
recorded.
Accompaniment Track [A]
The chord progression (for the Style) or the key
change (for the Pattern) will be recorded.
The operation is useful when you record a new Song
from scratch.
1
Make the desired settings including the
Main Voice selection.
2
Make the desired settings of your perfor-
mance.
If you want to record only the melody performance, press
the [SONG] button.
If you want to record the performance using a Style, press
the [Style] button.
If you want to record the performance using a Pattern,
press the [Pattern] button.
3
Press the [REC] button to enter the
Record Ready mode.
If a User Song was not selected beforehand, this
operation selects the lowest-numbered unrecorded
User Song (from 031–040) as Recording target.
To exit from this status, press the [REC] button
again.
4
Start recording.
When you press the [SONG] button in Step 2, play any note
to start recording.
When you select a Style in Step 2, play a chord in the Auto
Accompaniment area to start recording with Style play-
back, or press the [START/STOP] button to start recording
only with playback of the Rhythm part of a Style.
When you select a Pattern in Step 2, play a key in the
Accompaniment area or press the [START/STOP] button to
start recording with Pattern playback.
The current measure will be shown on the display
while recording.
5
Press the [START/STOP] or [REC] button
to stop recording.
When using a Style, you can stop recording also
by pressing the [ENDING] button then waiting
until playback ends.
After recording finishes, “Writing!” appears indi-
cating that the recorded data will be stored, then
the recorded track numbers in the display will
light.
6
To play back the recorded Song, press
the [START/STOP] button.
About audio files
The Recording function of this instrument will record your keyboard performance as MIDI data. Note that audio recording is not avail-
able.
NOTE
Track Structure of a Song
Quick Recording
Tr a ck
1
Trac k
2
Tr a ck
3
Trac k
4
Trac k
5
Accompaniment
Tr a c k
User 1
001
pEC
Flashes
Flashes
• The ACMP on/off status cannot be changed after the
[REC] button is pressed.
• Never attempt to turn the power off when “Writing!” is
shown in the display. Doing so can damage the flash
memory and result in a loss of data.
When recording Pattern playback with Retrigger
Note that the beat indicator in the display, metronome
and Arpeggio playback is not synchronized with play-
back of the recorded Song.
NOTE
User 1
003
pEC
Current measure number
or
NOTICE
NOTE