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 Use
the following step-by-step procedure to create your very own
multi pads. These steps should work on the 2000, 2100, 3000,
and Tyros keyboards. (The images show the four MULTI PAD buttons
on the PSR-2100 and PSR-3000 respectively.)
Step 1. Select
a Style which you want to create a Multi Pad for.
Step 2. Cancel
(turn off) the LAYER voice on the 2k/3k keyboards (R2 &
R3 voices on the Tyros) and assign a voice of your choice
to MAIN (or R1).
Step 3. Press Digital Recording button
to bring up the Digital Rec Menu and then select the Multi
Pad Creator (button C)
Step 4.
From the Multi Pad Creator screen display select "New
Bank," button [C]. You can see that the screen is very
similar whether for the 2000/2100 (left) or the Tyros/3000
(right).
Step 5.
At the bottom of the screen you will see the REPEAT and CHORD
MATCH functions for all 4 Pads. They are initially OFF. Turn
them all ON. (Use the 8 numbered buttons at the bottom of
the screen.)
Step 6. There is
a little window for each of the four pad buttons. You select
a pad button by pressing the corresponding button ([A], [B],
[F], or [G]. Select Pad1 to start (press the [A] button) to
designate this pad for recording to. At this stage you must
make all the settings you require for this Pad, including
Voice, if not already assigned to MAIN or R1. The most critical
settings to consider would be Volume, Pan, Reverb, and Octave/Tune.
All these settings are made via the Mixing Console.
Step 7. Press the
MIXING CONSOLE button to enter this facility and make all
your settings as required.
Step 8. Press the
[EXIT] button to return to the MULTI PAD CREATOR screen and
to enter the Recording phase. Notice
"REC" prompt on the screen next to the
[H] button, but don't press it just yet. Before you
proceed, start the rhythm and have a little play about until
you think you know what you’re going to record. Remember,
you can only record to the Multi
Pads in the key C, that is, any combination of
notes/chords of C including semitones,
but avoid using ‘F ’ unless for a fleeting moment in a
run. Refer to your Owners Manual for further clarification.
Step 9.
Now, to start recording press the [H] button as indicated,
which will result in a Message "Record Waiting."
For what you might ask? For you to start playing, of course!
Recording starts as soon as you touch the keys. So, take a
deep breath and try to start left and right hands together.
While there are no rules
here, it’s good idea to start a Pad at the beginning of a
bar and to end at the end of a bar or sequence of bars, i.e.
2, 4, 8, 16. .etc.
To finish/stop/end recording,
hit the [H] button again. This is best done "Smartly"
coinciding with the end of a bar or bar sequence.
You can now check out
how your Pad sounds and how the PSR handles chord changes.
Just play the left hand/rhythm and bring in the pad 1 as in
normal play. It is unlikely you’ll be happy with your first
take, but don’t worry, just repeat the process in step 9 over
and over until you are happy with the result, at which time
you can move on to recording Pad 2.
Step 10. Repeat
the procedure from Step 6 above by selecting Pad 2 and follow
through to end Step 9, and so on through all 4 Pads.
When you have completed
recording all your pads, go through the Save/Name process
as prompted on the screen. You can, of course, include this
step at the end of each Pads recording session. I fact, prudent
folks have learned to save early and often.
After a while you will
become quite proficient at this procedure and you can achieve
some very interesting results . I also think that your own
Pads tend to be a better fit for your music, because they
have been developed in your own style of play. Here are a
few further pointers which may be worth considering.
Pad Volume
Try to record all Pads so that they all play
back at similar volume levels. I currently record at approximately
100 but may make some adjustments up/down depending on the
voice strength itself. At a specified volume level, some voices
will be more prominent than others and you should take account
of these variances when recording. This also becomes important
when later you may wish to transfer individual Pads between
Pad Sets.
Panning
Pads are likely to be more effective and/or
distinctive if panned from left to right. I tend to follow
a standard pattern and use the following approximate settings:
P1 - 20, P2 - 40, P3 - 85, and P4 - 100.
Reverb
Most voices benefit and
become brighter with a little reverb, so make these settings
to your liking at the set-up stage prior to recording. As
far as I’m aware, it’s not possible to make adjustments to
the many Mixing Console settings after
Pad recordings have been made and
saved.
Post any questions you
may have on the psrtutorial
Forum, or send me an email
directly. For those who want their multi pads ready made,
you'll find over one hundred that I have created available
on the Multi Pad
page in the Styles section.
LeoD.
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