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36 DGX-505/305 Owner’s Manual
Quick Guide Using Songs
The following three types of songs can be used by the DGX-505/305.
● Preset Songs (the 30 songs built into the instrument)................ Song numbers 001 – 030.
● User Songs (recordings of your own performances) .................. Song numbers 031 – 035.
● External song files (song data transferred from a computer*) ... Song numbers 036 –.
* The Accessory CD-ROM includes a selection of 70 MIDI songs. See page 82 for instructions on how to
transfer the songs to the instrument.
The different types of songs can be saved to different song numbers. The chart below shows the basic DGX-505/305
processes flow for using the preset songs, user songs, and external song files – from storage to playback.
● Preset Song Categories
The 30 preset songs have been organized into 8 categories that make it easier to select appropriate songs for lessons.
Refer to this chart when selecting songs.
Category Number Ideal for …
Favorites 001 – 003 Popular songs, for people who want to play pops.
Easy Play 004 – 008 Right-hand melody songs. Ideal for beginner lessons.
Pianist 009 – 013
Folk songs arranged for piano. For people who want to play in a
classic style.
Organist 014 – 016 Players who enjoy the rich resonance of organ pieces.
Advanced 017 – 021 Lively tunes … when it’s time to move up from one-hand lessons.
Band Play 022 – 024 Slow ballade. Experience the role of the pianist in an ensemble.
Duet 025 – 027 Songs made up of two right-hand melodies.
Holidays 028 – 030 Songs for anyone who wants to expand their repertoire.
Types Of Songs
• User songs cannot produce
score display as they are. If
you convert a user song file to
SMF and save it to SmartMe-
dia memory, however, it
becomes capable of produc-
ing score display and can be
used with the lesson features.
• Different flash memory areas
are used to store user songs
and external song files trans-
ferred from a computer. User
songs cannot be directly
transferred to the external
song file flash memory area,
and vice versa.
NOTE
Play
Media Select
Your own performance External song file
Media select (page 67)
Transfer
(page 82)
Record
(page 46)
External song files can
be saved either to
SmartMedia memory
(036 –) or flash mem-
ory (036 –). Use the
Media Select function
to choose the media.
Hint!: You can have some-
one play a piece and tempo-
rarily save it in a user bank
as a user file, then save the
song file to SmartMedia
memory SMF format from
where it can be used as a
lesson song.
Computer
Preset Songs
(001 – 030)
User Songs
(031 – 035)
Memory Card
(036 – 929)
Flash Memory
(036 – 547)
The 30 songs
built into the
instrument.
Stored in the
internal flash
memory.
Save to
SmartMedia.
Currently
available.
Save to inter-
nal flash mem-
ory. Currently
available.
SMF
conversion
Save
DGX-505/305 Song
Storage locations