PiaRef
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User's Manual
Rev 31/03/16
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© 2014-2016 Dream S.A.S.
3. Root Menu
The Root
menu can be reached by pressing the “Menu” button.
The current menu page can be selected with “Plus” and “Minus”
Pressing the “Menu” button again will exit the menu.
3.1 SD Menu
General information: PIA-DK firmware support SDCard with FAT16 (up to 4 GByte) or FAT32 file systems.
Only Standard MIDIFile in format 0 (or format 1 with 1 track) are supported.
SD functions can be accessed by pressing on the 'Menu' button and scroll through the menus with 'Plus' and
'Minus' until the display shows “
S d.C
”.
Then following functions can be used:
3.1.1 Select one File
Scroll across SDCard MIDIFiles and select one file.
Press the first ”Instrument select” button. Display toggles between “
F i l
” and “
S.x x
” or “
r.x x
”, or “
F.x x
”
if one SD that contains Standard MIDIFiles (SMF) is inserted in SDMMC socket. If no SD inserted or SD
without SMF, display will toggle between “
F i l
” and “
- - -
“.
Use “Plus” and “Minus” buttons to select the SMF that you want to play, to load or to delete.
SMF created with the piano recorder (Piano Song) and with name in format
:
“SONGxx.MID” be displayed
in format “
S.
x x
”
. xx
is the value of the 2 digits in name.
Example
:
“SONG56.MID” will be displayed as “
S.5 6
”
.
SMF created with the piano recorder (Piano Song) and with name not in format
:
“SONGxx.MID” be
displayed in format “
r.
x x
”
.
xx
is the value of the index of the song in the SD directory.
Example
:
Piano song
“MyRecord.MID” will be displayed as “
r.0 1
” if it is referenced at the index 1 of
the SD directory
.
If name of SMF was not created with the piano recorder
, display will be “
F.
x x
”
. xx
is the value of the
index of the song in the SD directory.
Example
:
“PRELUDE.MID” can be displayed as “
F.0 2
”
if it is referenced at the index 2 of the SD
directory.
3.1.2 Play File
When in SD Select File mode you can play directly from SD the File that is currently displayed. For that, simply
press the “Play Start” button
3.1.3 Save Song to SD
Save the current sequencer Song to SD in SMF format. This menu can be reached only if unlocked SD that
contains SMF is inserted
Press the second
”Instrument select” button. Display toggles between “
S A.F
” and “
S.x x
”.
xx
is automatically set to the next upper value of the current highest Piano Song index
Press
“Plus” button. Display shows “
S u r
”.
Press again
“Plus” button to confirm your choice or “Minus” to abort. If confirmed, Song will be saved on SD
with name SONGxx.MID. Display shows
“
E n d
”. If aborted Song is not saved and display shows “
A b o
“
