General Music S2 Turbo, Owner'S Manual

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GENERAL INDEX V
6. PRACTICAL GUIDE ...................................................................... 51
1 PREPARE A WORK DISK WITH THE S SERIES DISK DRIVE .......................................................... 52
2 LOAD THE CONTENTS OF A DISK INTO MEMORY ......................................................................... 53
Load all the instrument’s data from disk ........................................................................................................................... 53
Load a Group of Bank/Songs ............................................................................................................................................ 54
Load a Single Bank/Song .................................................................................................................................................. 54
Load a Setup ...................................................................................................................................................................... 55
3 SAVE THE CONTENTS OF MEMORY TO DISK................................................................................. 57
Save all the instrument’s data to disk ................................................................................................................................ 57
Save all the Bank/Songs in a Group .................................................................................................................................. 58
Save a single Bank/Song ................................................................................................................................................... 58
Save a single Setup ............................................................................................................................................................ 59
4 LOAD AND SAVE A MIDI-FILE ............................................................................................................ 61
Memory format and Midi-files .......................................................................................................................................... 61
Compatibility of the sounds (Midi-files in General Midi/GS standard) ............................................................................ 61
Activation of the General Midi/GS compatibility .............................................................................................................. 61
Load a Midi-file ............................................................................................................................................................. 62
Save a Midi-file ............................................................................................................................................................. 63
5 OVERVIEW OF THE DISKS SUPPLIED WITH THE INSTRUMENT .................................................. 65
“Demo Disk 01” ............................................................................................................................................................. 65
The Bank/Song directory ................................................................................................................................................... 65
The Setup directory ........................................................................................................................................................... 66
Check the Ram-Sounds contained in Demo Disk 01 ......................................................................................................... 67
Load the Bank/Songs and Setups from Demo Disk 01 ...................................................................................................... 67
“Demo Disk 02” ............................................................................................................................................................. 68
Load the new pianoforte from Demo Disk 02 ................................................................................................................... 68
“Freeware Disk” ............................................................................................................................................................ 69
The “Hardcopy” program ................................................................................................................................................. 69
The “Disk_Dir” program .................................................................................................................................................. 69
The “Copy_Prg” program ................................................................................................................................................ 69
6 SONG PLAYBACK / THE SEQUENCER CONTROLS ........................................................................ 70
Load a Song using the standard procedure ....................................................................................................................... 70
Use Preload to load a Song in background ...................................................................................................................... 70
How to select the Song ...................................................................................................................................................... 70
The Sequencer ................................................................................................................................................................... 71
7 CREATE OR MODIFY THE BANK/SONGS ......................................................................................... 72
Cancel Song 1 (Demo) ................................................................................................................................................. 72
Prepare a start-up disk to power up without Song 1 (Demo) ........................................................................................ 72
Record a new Song using the Performances of an existing Bank/Song ...................................................................... 73
Using a Bank/Song already present in memory ................................................................................................................ 73
Using a Bank/Song contained in a disk ............................................................................................................................. 73
Create a new Bank/Song .............................................................................................................................................. 74
Cancel one of the 10 default Bank/Songs present in memory ........................................................................................... 74
Create a completely new Bank/Song ................................................................................................................................. 74
8 EDITING THE PERFORMANCES ....................................................................................................... 75
Create, copy and cancel the tracks .............................................................................................................................. 75
How to cancel tracks ......................................................................................................................................................... 75
How to create tracks ......................................................................................................................................................... 75
Copy a track to another ..................................................................................................................................................... 76