Charlie Lab Megabeat One, Руководство пользователя

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1. INTRODUCTION
We wish to compliment you on your new Megabeat One.
Megabeat One is a “Hard Disk Midi Player”, i.e. a Standard Midi File Player,
in 0 and 1 format, based on hard disk.
Unlike the normal Midi File reproducer, which use the floppy disk as a
support (i.e. from which they read and play the Midi File at the same time),
Megabeat One uses an internal hard disk.
Even those who are not expert on informatics acknowledge the advantage
of using a player based on hard disk instead of one based on the traditional floppy
disks:
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greater capacity (the hard disk of Megabeat One can contain the equivalent
of about 600 floppy disks, each one of 720 kbyte, a total of about 5000 songs);
◆ quicker song access (i.e. minimum waiting time before the beginning of a
song, also in case of the Midi File type 1);
◆ greater reliability (concerning both duration and protection from any
reading/writing errors);
◆
possibility of containing the whole repertoire in a single Megabeat
One(without looking every time among dozens of floppy disks for the one
containing the desired song);
◆ possibility of organizing the repertoire in different song lists without any
number limitation: in fact using a normal reader based on floppy disk to create a
list of songs, which have to be reproduced in sequence, it is necessary to copy all
the songs on the same floppy disk (this operation needs a lot of time and often it is
impossible to do it without the support of a computer).
Moreover, Megabeat One’s hard disk comes with a lot of songs prepared by
the most important recording studios.
In addition to all the advantages which have just been listed, Megabeat One
is characterized by other extremely interesting features such as:
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the wide LCD back-lighted display;
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