Yamaha DGX 230 - How to make the verse / chorus repeat?

[I AM BOG]

Hello

First time post here.

20 years ago I had a Yamaha keyboard, a four track and an Epiphone guitar. I used to use the keyboard for drums and bass (auto accompiment) to help me construct songs on the guitar. I just bought a Yamaha DGX 230 to do just the same.

Ok, I can record auto-accompiment (drums and bass) no problem, what I can't seem to do is make it repeat. What I mean is, I can record the notes for the verse and chorus (say four bars and four bars), but how do I make it repeat the verse and chorus repeatedly so I can practice my guitar over the top? I don't want to have to input the verse and the chorus repeatedly for four or five minutes, I just want to input it once and have it repeat (like a continuous loop). It must be able to do it as the one I had 20 years ago could do it.

HELP!!!

 

[BleugrassBoy]

The DGX-230 is a very basic “arranger” and it will not auto-repeat (loop) a recording. If your recording is 8 bars it will play that and stop - and you must manually play the recording again. You’ll probably have to step up in price quite a bit to get an auto looping feature.

On my DGX-650 I found it easier to just record a LONG (5-7 minute?) version, playing verse, chorus, verse, chorus, verse, chorus etc etc etc etc. Then I had a long continuous loop to practice with. But I see you don’t want to do that.

SO
I don’t know if you might be able to use a pedal looper to accomplish what you want - I don’t have any experience with any of those but I’ve seen they are capable of doing some nice loops.

Hope this helps.

 

[amwilburn]

Correct, as an arranger, (but not one with programmable styles) you'd have to record the chords for the entire song and keep hitting play.

The Yamaha keyboard from 20 years ago might have been a workstation synth, not an arranger; *those* were designed to loop bars (Motif/MotifES/XF, MoXF, MoX. On higher end arrangers, you can actually build the chord loops *into* the style (they called them DJ styles) but I don't remember the DGX230 having that as part of the style creation, nor would it be efficient at doing so (you *can* do it on the current DGX670, but it's a lot harder than doing it on a workstation synth) and the newest Yamaha arrangers actually feature chord loopers for just such a purpose... maybe if you could recall which keyboard you originally used?


Mind you the post you're replying to is from 17 years ago, and that user hasn't been seen since, so it's likely he'll never see our replies. But *shrug* maybe this'll be useful information to someone else in the future.