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Tutorial: Song Mode
Song Editing And Structure With Track Functions
In song mode you can easily copy part of a sequence to another time in the song, or from one
track to another. You can also copy a section of all tracks at once in order to duplicate or structure
entire sections of your song, such as verse and chorus sections. You can also choose groups of
notes to erase, or entire bars of time to delete. There are many basic and advanced editing
functions available. For details see
Song Editor: Track Functions
on page 12-24
in Chapter 12,
Song
Mode and the Song Editor
.
Program Changes
If your song requires more than 16 instrument parts, one method of achieving this is with
program changes. For example, let’s say you’ve used all 16 tracks but desire a new instrument for
the next section of the song. If there is a track whose instrument is not needed in the new section,
this track’s program could change to a new instrument sound for the section, and then change
back to the original instrument sound after the section. To do this, simply press
Record
and
Play/
Pause
and then change the
Prog
parameter on the
Song mode MAIN page to the new program at the
desired time. This can be done most precisely if you know the ID# of the program you wish to change to.
Enter the number with the alphanumeric pad and then press
Enter
when you want to make the change. You
won’t be able to see the numbers you’ve entered until you press
Enter
, but you can press
Cancel
to start
over if you’ve made a mistake or if you are unsure what you’ve entered
. Use the same method if
you would like to change the program back to the original after the new section.
The Event List
Song mode is a powerful composition tool because just about anything that you do on the PC3A
is recorded into a track as event messages. Once recorded, these events can be altered, copied or
removed. Each track has an event list, containing all of the events recorded into a track, from
which they can be viewed and edited. For details see
Song Editor: The EVENT Page
on page 12-31
in Chapter 12,
Song Mode and the Song Editor
.
