General Music S2 Turbo, Owner'S Manual

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Overview of the data and the memorising
facilities (floppy disk and R
AM
-disk)
As in any computer, the Music Processor is an elabora-
tor of data, which consist of Sounds, Songs and any
other element or parameter used during the elaboration
or execution.
The data can be utilised for the purpose of elaboration
for playing, or they can be memorised for future use.
The “physical environment” which houses the data dur-
ing the course of an elaboration or execution is the
RAM, or the instrument’s operative memory. The S
Series RAM is divided into two parts:
a) O
PERATIVE
-R
AM
, which is exploited by the micro-
processor for every single operation, and which
contains the Sounds, the Songs, the Performances
and any other data necessary to make the instru-
ment work;
b)
S
AMPLE
-R
AM
, which, while the instrument is on,
contains the Samples loaded together with one or
more Sounds or via the Sample Translator.
RAM is volatile: all the data it contains will be irretriev-
ably lost when the instrument is turned off. Therefore,
before turning off the instrument, this kind of data must
be saved in devices capable of conserving the data intact
for future use. These devices are the Floppy Disk and
the Ram-disk.
The floppy disk is the classic diskette which is inserted
in the instrument’s disk drive, and it serves to store your
data and to exchange it with other people or other
instruments.
The Ram-disk is a fixed internal device of the Music
Processor, which serves to memorise all data at high
speed. This device is an optional item which can be
fitted upon request in all the S Series instruments, but it
is highly advisable to install it to speed up the opera-
tions.
The exchange of data takes place in the direction Disks
<—> R
AM
:
floppy disk RAM-disk
Operative-RAM
Sample-RAM
The data are organised in memory and in the disks
according to the type and order of hierarchy.
The structure of the disk data is as follows:
SETUPs GROUPs
General
Sound Library
Effects Libraries
Clipboard 10 Groups
10x10 Bank/Songs
10x10X10 Performances
FLOPPY DISK & RAM-DISK
USER PROGRAMs
The structure of the data in memory is as follows:
SETUPs GROUPs
General
Sound Library
Effects Libraries
Clipboard 1 Group
10 Bank/Songs
10X10 Performances
RAM
USER PROGRAMs
The data between memory and disk is completely ex-
changeable. The only data that can be read by the floppy
disk and not saved are the User Programs.
The data
Setups Basic settings of the instrument. These include
the General setups, the Sound Library, the Effects
Libraries (reverbs/modulations), Clipboard (edit page
“clips”).
Ram and disks are able to store only one Setup of the
same type (only one Sound Library, only one Gen-
eral Setup...).
Groups Bank/Song groups. Only one Bank/Song group
can be loaded at a time from disks containing up to 10
Bank/Songs.
User Programs Programs which provide the instru-
ment with new functions.
I
NTERNAL MEMORY AND DISKS
Overview of the instrument