Operation Manual

GETTING STARTED
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ORGANIZING & MANAGING DATA
If you re a prolific composer and/or voice programmer, the number of floppy disks
lying around can mount up quickly. It s amazing how easy it is to lose track of what voices,
multis and song sequences you ve stored where. To wit, a well-organized data library is
essential.
For general purposes, it s a good idea to store different types of files on different disks,
i.e., keep voices on one disk, performance type multis on another, composing type multis
on another, and sequences on another. Or you might want to keep all multi, sequence and
voice data for a specific song or session together on its own disk.
It s a good strategy to store specific types of voices on different disks. For example, you
might store a complete bank of Strings voices on one disk, so you can load them in to
find just the right one without having to wade through a lot of different disks. This is
where the Store Mode comes in handy, since you can store the desired voices for a song
into its accompanying Song voice bank, in order to put your data together in one place
when you need it.
It s helpful to prepare sets of Internal voice banks with good all round selections of
instruments for practicing, or different genres of music or prepare multis for the same
purpose and save them to disk for quick access.
Likewise, it s a good idea to prepare special disks for either upcoming performances or
studio gigs, so you ll be ready to load and play within seconds of powering up. In such
cases, you ll want to prepare voice data in entire banks, and perhaps even song data for
more than one song, since loading each voice or song individually from your data library is
not practical in time-limited situations.
Always label your disks clearly, with as much detail as possible, so that you ll be able to
find exactly the file you need when you need it. And it s always a good idea to back your
disks up at least once, preferably twice, and keep them in separate places, in case of a worst
case scenario where one is defective or gets destroyed or lost somehow. That way, you can
rest assured that you ll always have that important song or sound whenever you need it.