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UNLOCK DISK
If ‘virtual’ samples are loaded from a removable disk medium such as Jaz, Zip, Syquest, MO, etc.,
the disk becomes locked and you are unable to eject it from the drive’s own front panel without first
unlocking it in the DISK UTILITIES/DISK LIST page:
This is because it is impossible to play ‘virtual’ samples without the disk being present. If the disk
were to be ejected leaving just the ‘noses’ of the samples in memory, they would not play correctly.
If you want to eject the disk, the ‘virtual’ samples first need to be deleted from memory.
Any disk that has ‘virtual’ samples loaded will be shown as locked with a small padlock icon
alongside it. Pressing UNLOCK DISK will pop-up a prompt informing you to delete the ‘virtual’
samples from disk so that the disk can be ejected safely:
You should press OK and, in EDIT SAMPLE, identify the ‘virtual’ samples in memory and delete
them. Once all the ‘virtual’ samples from the selected disk are deleted, you can eject the disk as
usual from its own front panel.
**** NOTE REGARDING USING VIRTUAL SAMPLES WITH REMOVABLE DRIVES ****
Many removable drives have an automatic ‘sleep’ action where the unit spins down into a
‘dormant’ phase if unused for some time. However, this is very inconvenient when trying to
play ‘virtual’ samples from such a disk because if the disk is asleep when you try to play the
sample, playback will fail because it will take a long time for the disk to ‘wake up’ and play the
sample(s).
Therefore, when ‘virtual’ samples are loaded, the S6000 overrides the drive’s ‘sleep’ function
so that the disk is always ready to play from disk instantly.
As such, it is not advisable to have ‘virtual’ samples loaded from a removable drive in the
sampler for too long as this may mean that the drive will never have a chance to ‘sleep’ and so
may run the risk of overheating.
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