Yamaha RY20 Owner's Manual - page 41
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Recording a User Pattern
Play the Pattern
You can review your pattern at any time.
1
Press the
[ PLAY ]
button to start the pattern. The green Play LED will
flash in time with the current tempo setting and the pattern will begin
playback.
2
Press the
[ STOP ]
button to stop playing the pattern. The green Play LED
stops flashing.
An Example Pattern
Start the recording by pressing the
[RECORD]
button. The RY20 defaults to
the first beat of the pattern.
IMPORTANT
Depending on the amount of data you have recorded, it may not be possible to fully
record all the available user patterns. If you run out of memory during recording,
the error message “
MEMORY FULL
” will appear on the display. If this happens, use
the Clear Pattern function described on page 55 to clear unwanted pattern data.
You may also want to use a MIDI data storage device such as the Yamaha MDF2
MIDI Data Filer to save your important data to floppy disk for later loading and
use.
WARNING
Turning the power off while Pattern Record Mode is active may cause irretrievable
loss of ALL the user data.
NOTE
You can change the tempo as the pattern plays. See page 19 for further details. Also
see page 44 about recording an initial tempo into your pattern.
The RY20 always remembers the last tempo you entered for a user pattern.