Akai S900

11
I
PART
5:
THE
DISK
BUTTON
FUNCTIONS
DISK
FUNCTIONS
The disk
drive:
• Loads disk
samples
and
programs
into
the
S900,
and
• Saves
samples
and
programs
stored in
the
S900 to
disk.
The
S900
loses
ail
data
in its
memory
when
power is
turned
off,
so save
your
work
to
disk before
turning
off power.
Also
save
your
work
to
disk
periodically
to
guard
against
power
failures or
unforeseen
problems.
One
additional
function,
format,
converts
standard
disks
into
disks
suitable
for
use with
the S900. Any
new
disk,
or disk
used
previously
with
a diffeent
piece
of
equipment
(e.g.
personal
computer,
other
instrument)
must be
formatted
before
it
can
be
used with
the
S900.
Disks have
a
write-protect
feature that
helps
prevent
accidental
erasure.
There
will
be
a small,
movable
tab
in
one
corner
of the
disk. When
slid
towards
the
outside
of
the
disk,
a hole
will
appear and
you
will not
be able
to record
data on,
or
format,
the
disk. Moving
the
tab
towards the
inside
of the
disk
blocks
the
hole
and defeats
the
write-protect
feature.
PAGE
01
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Selecting
Page
01 displays
"Clear
memory
and
load
entire
disk
(ENT)." To
do
this,
press the
ENT button.
Any
data in
the
S900's
memory
will
be
replaced
with data
from the
disk.
After
loading,
the
LCD wil!
indicate
what
percentage
of the
S900
memory
has
been filled,
and what
percentage
of
the
disk
was
filled.
PAGEQ2
LOAD
PROGRAM,
OR
PROGRAM
AND SAMPLES,
FROM
D!SK
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PROGRAM
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This
page offers
two main choices:
»
Load program
only.
Use
this when
you have
samples
in
memory
that
you want to arrange
into
a
program,
and
already
have
a program
on disk
that would
be
suitable
for the
samples
currently
in S900 memory.
• Load
program
and samples. Use
this
to
make
up
a disk
with
many
different
sounds
by loading
programs
and
samples
from
other disks.
(Example:
Load bass
program
and
samples
from
one disk
and drum program
and
samples
from
another
disk
to make
up
a
"rhythm
section"
disk.)
1
.
Point
arrow at "name."
Turn
CONTROL
to
scan
the
catalog
of
available
programs, or enter
the
name of
the
program
you
want to
load.
2.
Point
arrow
at "PR only"
to load only
the
program
data. Point
arrow
at "PR
&
Sample" to
load the
programed
samples
that
make
up the
program.
3.
After making
your choice,
press ENT.
The
disk
activity
light
wili
turn on
to indicate that loading
is
taking
place.
PAGE
03I LOAD
SAMPLE
FROM
DISK
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SAMPLE
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Use this feature
to fill the
S900 memory
with
many different
sounds
by loading samples from
various disks.
1
.
Point
arrow at "name." Turn
CONTROL
to
scan the catalog
of
available samples, or enter the
name of the
sample you want
to load. If the
LCD says
"none,"
there
are no
samples
on
the
disk.
If
you
switch disks during this
process, press
the
DISK function
button
immediately after the change
to load
the
new
disk sample
catalog.
2. After
selecting a sample, press ENT. The
disk
activity Sight
will
go
on
to indicate
that
loading is taking
place.
PAGE
04
1 ERASE
DISK, THEN
SAVE
S900
M1W0W"T0 DISK
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s a v a
entire
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Selecting Page
04 displays "Clear disk and save
entire
memory
(ENT)." To
do
this,
press
the
ENT button. Caution!
This will
erase whatever had
previously been on the disk,
unless
it was
write-protected. If
the disk
is
write-protected, the
LCD
will notify
you and
advise
you what to do.
After
saving, the
LCD will indicate
what
percentage
of
the
disk
has been filled,
and what percentage of the S900
memory
was
filled.
PAGE
05 ! SAVE PROGRAM, OR
PROGRAM
& SAMPLES,
FROM S900 TO DISK
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SAVE PR
OS
RAM (ENT)
*name
WELCOME
PR only-
Disk
*PR
&
smpls-
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This
page
offers
two main choices:
*
Save
program
only. Use
this when
you
come
up
with
a
par-
ticularly
useful program in the
S900.
Once saved
to
disk,
you
can
subsequently
use
this program with different
sets
of
samples.
•
Save
program
and
samples. Use this to
transfer
a
complete
program, including
the samples
contained in the
program
from
S900 memory
to
disk. To transfer a
program
and
its
sam-
ples from one disk
to
another disk, load
the
program
and
sam-
ples from
one disk in
memory
(Page
02),
then save
to another
disk from
S900
memory.
1
.
Point arrow
at "name." Turn
CONTROL to scan the
catalog
of
available
programs, or
enter the name
of the
program
you
want to save.