Time Signature mystery - Yamaha DGX 670

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When I first started learning on the keyboard, I had a 660. I now have a 670.

I have song I recorded early in my learning path, I recorded a song that I got from Playground Sessions which shows Cut time for the time signature. I had no idea what that even meant at the time. So I recorded it at the default signature of the 660 at 4/4.

So today I pulled up that song, and played it., playing along with it. (I added accompaniment of my own at the time, and I'm surprised it sounds pretty good. ;-) ). Anyway When I'm about 80% through the song, there is a measure where there is an extra measure in the recording...holding the final notes of a measure. I'm beginning to think that maybe they changed the sheet music at that measure, not sure.

So more to the point: I realized when I started inspecting things that the song was recorded at 4/4, but it is set for cut signature. Except for this one place, the song is fine. And frankly, the measure that is recorded sounds fine. But I thought I'd changed the signature of the recorded song to 2/2.

So I went into metronome settings and changed the time signature to 2/2. But, the song still shows as 4/4. I've had a song I was working on more recently that was at 8/9 time signature. So I had to change the sig for the song as I was playing it. What I found then was that if I make a mistake and start over, it reverts to 4/4. So every time I have to play again, I had to set the time signataure for the song.

So on this song it is not changing. I am thinking maybe if I saved the song it would save as 2/2, although I haven't tried that yet.

I find the only time it shows the changed time signature is when I start recording.

I'm asking if anyone can tell me how I could change that time signature, short of loading into a DAW.

Any other comments/thoughts about why changing a time signature is so screwy are welcome.
 

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