STEP RECORDING
Step Recording is a method of 
recording a song by manually 
entering notes one after another as
data, instead of playing the 
keyboard in real-time.  This 
method may be useful when 
trying to create a phrase with a 
precise rhythm, or when recording 
a phrase that is beyond your 
playing skill level.

To set up Step recording:

1) In the Advanced Recorder 
menu select Step Rec (L4).  The 
Step Record menu will be 
displayed.

2) Use the L and R buttons and 
the Dial to set up recording 
options.

3) Press the START button (F7).  
You will be presented with the 
data entry screen.


To use the Step Recorder:

1) Use the F1-F3 buttons to select 
a setting (Note value, length, 
Velocity) and use the Dial to 
change its value.  The value will 
be displayed above the buttons at 
the bottom of the screen.
Velocity value can be entered by 
actually hitting a key on the 
keyboard.  To enable this, select 
"Key" for the Velocity value 
instead of a number.

2) To enter a note event, play the 
note using the keyboard.  The note 
data will be displayed on the 
screen.  Continue entering as 
many notes as you wish; notice 
how previously entered notes are 
continuously displayed as a list, 
screen room permitting.  The 
graphic navigator near the bottom 
of the screen gives you feedback 
as to what bar you are in.

3) If you enter a wrong note and 
wish to delete it, press the L2 
button.  When you are using the 
REPLACE mode for recording, 
when you press L2 the list of your 
entered notes scrolls back one 
event, and that event is erased 
immediately.  Therefore, if you 
scroll to the start of bar 5 of a 
10 bar list of notes, everything 
from bar 5 on will be erased.  In 
OVERDUB mode, however, you 
can delete only the most recently 
added note, and scrolling back 
over the list using L2 will not 
automatically erase events.  When 
using OVERDUB, you need to 
press the Delete button (R1) to 
erase the event.

4) If you would like to enter a 
rest, press the REST button (F5).  
This moves the cursor to the next 
beat without entering any data.  
The rest value is same as the note 
value selected for the F1 button.
If you would like to enter a rest 
for the remainder of the measure, 
press the NEXT BAR button (F6).  
This will bring the cursor to the 
top of the next measure.

5) When you like to tie notes, 
press the TIE button (F4) while 
holding down the key.  This 
doubles the length of the note. If 
you press the TIE button twice 
while holding down the key, the 
length of the note is tripled.

6) In OVERDUB mode, if you go 
back to certain point to enter a 
note, use the L2 and L3 buttons to 
move the cursor up and down to 
get to the event time where you 
want to insert the new data.

7) Press the STOP (F7) button or 
the PLAY/STOP button to stop 
recording.


Transpose and Octave Shift can 
be in effect as you are entering 
notes.  The transposed pitches are 
the note values that are recorded.

The navigator graphic represents 
the current bar that you are 
recording.  The partitions 
represent each beat, and thus the 
number of partitions matches the 
time signature of the music.  For 
example, there would be 4 
partitions if the time signature is 
4/4, and 6 partitions if it is 6/8. 
Each partition consists of a 
number of spaces where dots will 
be displayed to mark time.  Each 
space represents 24 clock pulses.  
Therefore the number of displayed 
spaces per partition represents 
duration of the beat.

The dots do not represent the 
duration of the notes.  They just 
tell you where they are.
		

