ROLAND MP-60
Owner's Manual

Chapter 4. Recording Your Performance

Recording a New Song
Record only the keyboard performance without playing along with an internal song.
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Recording settings (select �USr�)

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Press the [SONG/TEMPO] button, getting its indicator to light in red.
The song number appears in the display.

If you layer a newly recorded performance without erasing the recorded song, the song with the settings that were recorded first. tempo and beat will be stored

Press [+] and [-] buttons simultaneously, and �USr� appears in the display.

Specifying the tone and tempo for recording

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Select the tone that you want to play (p. 11). If necessary, turn on the metronome.
Sound the metronome while you set the tempo and beat of the song (p. 14).
About the �USr� display When you stop recording, the � to � � display will change �.

Press the [REC] button.
The [REC] button�s indicator will light, the [PLAY] button�s indicator will blink, and you will be in recording-standby mode.

The �.� in the lower right of the display indicates that there is already a recorded performance.

Start recording

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Recording will start when you either press the [PLAY] button or play the keyboard.
The MP-60 counts down two measures, then recording starts. Note that recording will also begin as soon as you play anything on the keyboard, even if you do not press the [PLAY] button. There is no count sound played when you start in this manner. When recording begins, the [PLAY] button and [REC] button indicators will light. Go ahead and perform on the keyboard.
If you record without specifying the recording track, the performance will be recorded to the [1] button. If you want to record the right and left hands separately on separate recording tracks, refer to �Selecting and Recording the Track for Each Hand Separately� (p. 24).

Stop recording

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Press the [PLAY] or [REC] button.
The indicators for the [PLAY] and [REC] buttons will go dark.

Play back the recorded performance

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Press the [PLAY] button.
You will hear the recorded performance. Once again press the [PLAY] button, and playback will stop.

When a recorded performance is played back, the metronome sounds the sound that was selected when the recording was made.

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