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Carlo
07-07-2007, 07:38 PM
Both CVP-300 and CVP-400 Series contain the Sound Creator function, which allows one to modify a preset (or pre-existing) voice of the Clavinova, change some of its parameters and save it into a User folder for later reuse.
The only possible reuse, however, is just playing (and, possibly, recording) a song using that (modified) voice.
In fact, if you instead wish to perform a song revoicing through the mixing console by replacing a preset voice in a channel with a voice created by yourself, this is impossible.
This impossibility, very regrettably, is doomed to last still long. :(
Song revoicing with user-created voices is supported neither in the CVP-300 Series, nor in the new CVP-400 Series, nor in the Tyros-2 (after their official manuals).
Frankly speaking, I don't understand why it should be forbidden to revoice a song with your own voices, generated from the preset ones. :confused:

I hope this unpleasant limitation may be overcome some day in the future.

dbjorck
07-08-2007, 02:56 AM
Hi!

Yes, that is very annoying and very strange. I don't understand why the user folder isn't available for revoicing, because you can record using the user voices. I discovered this annoying fact when I had recorded a track using a user voice, but on the way lost the settings so it reverted back to the original installed voice. I could not then simply revoice it back to the same user voice that it used when recorded! Very strange, I can see no technical reason for that restriction.

There is a workaround though. Set recording to punch out, select your user voice, press a key and immediately stop recording. Then in Song Creator 1-16 delete the note and any voice changes that may appear immediately after it and the rest will continue to use the user voice. If the voice starts on bar 1 beat 1, simply play the first note, and don't delete the note itself.

Brgds

Danny

Carlo
07-09-2007, 07:24 PM
Hi!

Thank you for your ingenious tip. I tried it and it works fine.

Indeed, while working on the 6th sonatina from Diabelli's Op.163 (coming soon...), I happened to fall into a trap similar to the one occurred to you.
I had to re-record from scratch a whole section, which has been probably a better solution, in search for a "live" feel...

Best regards,