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Index iii
• 5 Disk ........................................................................ 41
The Disk .............................................................................. 41
File types and extensions .................................................... 41
Access to disk....................................................................42
What is a MIDI File ............................................................... 42
General MIDI (GM) ................................................................ 42
GMX Format ........................................................................ 42
Loading Songs and MidiFiles .............................................. 42
Loading Styles ...................................................................... 43
Loading Performance ............................................................ 43
Loading Sample .................................................................... 43
Loading Song Style .............................................................. 43
Load Operations ................................................................... 44
How to LOAD ........................................................................ 44
Recognizing File from its extension ...................................... 44
Operazioni di salvataggio ...................................................... 45
Save Operations .................................................................. 46
Saving MIDI File .................................................................. 46
Saving Song Styles ............................................................. 46
Delete Operations ................................................................ 46
Formatting a Floppy disk ...................................................... 47
Format 720 Kb ...................................................................... 47
Format 1,44 Mb .................................................................... 47
The Formatting procedure ..................................................... 47
General disk-handling information ....................................... 48
Inserting a Floppy Disk into the drive .................................. 48
Ejecting a Floppy Disk ......................................................... 48
Disk protection ...................................................................... 48
Handling Floppy Disks ......................................................... 48
Back-up copies .................................................................... 49
Cleaning the disk drive head ................................................. 49
Precautions to observe when using WK1 disks with a PC ... 49
• 6 Songs ...................................................................... 50
What is a Song ..................................................................... 50
The Song Performance ........................................................ 50
Selecting a Song ................................................................. 50
How to select a Song ............................................................ 50
Song playback ...................................................................... 50
Cancelling a Song (Clear Function) ...................................... 51
Melody off ............................................................................. 51
Play all Songs ....................................................................... 51
Play a Song with a track in Real Time .................................. 51
Displaying Lyrics ................................................................... 53
• 7 Song Styles ........................................................... 54
Song Style Performance ....................................................... 54
Selecting a Song Style ......................................................... 54
How to select a Song Style .................................................. 54
Play a Song Style in Real Time ............................................ 55
Recording a Song Style ........................................................ 55
Enter Song Style recording mode ......................................... 55
Listen to the Song Style playback ........................................ 56
Clear Song Style (User Song Style) ...................................... 57
How to assigna aname to a Song Style ................................ 57