Basics in setting up a Registration for a song
When setting up a Registration for a song you need a base to start from. One way to get a base is to use the Music Finder and see if there's a song in there you know. Pressing the Music Finder button and scrolling down a bit I find Beautiful Dreamer, which when highlighted sets the keyboard up with a STYLE and VOICE to play the tune.
I have chosen the one called GuitarSerenade. The one marked (SONG) just 'plays' it for you .. doesn't set the keyboard up.
To get the MAIN screen up showing me all the setup I have to press the EXIT on the keyboard itself.
This is what I see on the MAIN screen:
Looking at the PART ON/OFF section on the right, only one light is lit up, and that is RIGHT1, so only the voice ConcertGuitar is selected.
The STYLE set up is GuitarSerenade.
Now a STYLE is made up of 'PARTS' that blend together to make the backing you hear.
The PARTS are called: RHYTHM 1, RHYTHM 2, BASS, CHORD 1, CHORD 2, PAD, PHRASE 1, and PHRASE 2.
To get these PARTS showing in the MAIN screen you press the button on the keyboard marked CHANNEL ON/OFF.
You will now get the below, with the PARTS showing at the bottom of the screen.
Note that all the PARTS are ON. I play a chord. An INTRO plays; and then the STYLE plays. I am not going to play a melody with it .. just listen to the STYLE backing. Sounds OK, but there is one sound I don't want. A string sound. Don't want that to be sounding in the 'mix'. I'll explain why later. So I will turn it OFF.
Those PARTS can each be turned ON/OFF by pressing the bottom button under the screen corresponding to the PART displayed.
The guilty PART is PAD, so I turn that to OFF under the screen.
Having turned PAD to OFF, I now press MEMORY (you don't have to hold it down) in the REGISTRATION MEMORY section, and press the 1 to store it in that first Registration Memory.
Note: This setup (without the PAD) is the sound I want to start playing my song with, so this is what goes into REGISTRATION MEMORY 1.
Now, I have noticed that the LEFT voice is AccompOoh. I like a left voice, so I turn that ON in the PART ON/OFF so the button is lit up. I have also turned the LEFT HOLD to ON.
It is worth mentioning at this point that you have to be a bit of a sound engineer when playing your keyboard as it is important to get the right BALANCE between the STYLE and VOICES you are using. Is that LEFT VOICE too overpowering and drowning everything else out? Is that VIBRAPHONE so quiet that you can hardly hear it? You need to get access to the VOLUME sliders so you can adjust them.
This time you press the button marked BALANCE (see below):
And you will get back to the MAIN screen you had originally with the sliders showing.
By pressing the corresponding buttons or sliders under the screen, adjust the volumes to where you want them. I found that for me, having the STYLE at 100; the LEFT VOICE at 50; and RIGHT 1 at 120 was about right (yes, I did put that Vibraphone 'up' a tad). Of course I was only using these three to play this piece so didn't need to adjust any of the other volumes. See the below.
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Next, I press the MEMORY again and press the 2 to store it in the second Registration Memory. The reason why I said earlier that I didn't want to hear the STRINGS from PAD in the STYLE is because I didn't want any 'continuous sound' when I started playing the song .. and when I introduce the LEFT voice by pressing Registration Memory 2 I wanted the change to be dramatic. And definitely didn't want the strings to be sounding as well as my AccompOoh.
I then pressed REGISTRATION MEMORY 1 to check what volumes I had set up in there. The vibraphone was at 100, so I upped that to 120; then pressed MEMORY, followed by MEMORY 1 again to store my changes back into Memory 1.
I now have a DEMO for you to listen to, so click the LINK below to play it. The first part is the STYLE with the 'string' sound. The second is with the string sound (PAD) turned OFF (how much quieter that is!). And the third is bringing in the LEFT voice.
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DEMO of STYLE Accompaniment
And below is another DEMO, this time playing the melody as well. You get the INTRO, followed by a verse with the STRINGS in PAD; followed by a verse without the strings in Pad (that sounds much better!); followed by the Chorus with my LEFT VOICE. Just what I wanted to hear!
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DEMO of STYLE Accompaniment with the Melody
When you set up a REGISTRATION BANK for the song you want to play you should immediately SAVE it .. or you're likely to lose it!
So I then pressed the button next to REGIST (button J); pressed the button under the screen corresponding to SAVE; pressed and held down the DELETE (which deletes the NAME, not the song); typed in my own name using Upper and Lower Case (eg. BeautifulDreamer); and then pressed the OK. This saves it in USER for me to retrieve later.
Lastly, below is the whole song again as I played and recorded it.
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Beautiful Dreamer played from the REGISTRATION MEMORY