Tutorial: Song Mode
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4. On the Song:MIXER page, press the
Keep
soft button to store initial values for all tracks
(see below.)
5. On the Song:MIXER page, press the Done soft button or the front panel
Exit
button. You
will be asked to save changes to your song, just as in Part 3, step 4 of this guide (see above.)
Saving your song completes the process of storing initial volume settings with your song.
Pressing the
Keep
soft button on the
Song:MIXER page stores
initial values of volume, pan, and
program number for each track. Initial values are the settings that will be used when your song is
played back from the beginning. Volume, pan, and program settings can change automatically
over the course of the song if you change them while recording, but pressing the
Keep
button
stores the current value for each setting to be recalled at the song’s beginning.
6. Follow the above procedure in steps 4 and 5 to store current values as initial values after
changing any volume, pan, or program parameters.
Note:
Most users will want to store initial values as described above. Advanced users may not want to
store initial values for every track. For details on saving an initial value for a single track only, see the
Program, Volume, and Pan sections in the Song Mode: The MAIN Page
in Ch. 12, p.1
.
Part 6 b: Recording Volume Automation
You can also record volume automation. Volume automation is the method of recording a series
of volume event messages that change a track’s
Vol
parameter over the course of the song. This is
useful for fading instruments in or out of a song, or adjusting instrument volumes for only
specific sections of a song.
1. On the Song mode MAIN page, make sure the
Mode
parameter is set to
Merge
(see below.)
(Also make sure the
RecMode
parameter has been set to Linear, as in Part 5, step 9, above.)
