EPS-16 PLUS Musician's Manual
Section 1 — Getting Started
• Subject disks to strong magnetic fields. Exposure to magnetic energy can
permanently damage the information on the disk. Keep disks away from
speaker cabinets, tape decks, power cables, airline x-ray equipment, power
amplifiers, TV sets, and any other sources of magnetic energy.
• Eject the disk while the drive is operating (the Disk Drive light is on).
Disk Memory vs. Internal Memory
The instruments, banks, sequences, and effects which the EPS-16 PLUS plays
are stored on double-sided 3.5" micro-floppy disks. Each disk will hold 800
kilobytes of data, which translates into 400k Sample-words, or about 1600
Blocks. (A Block is a handy unit which the EPS-16 PLUS uses to measure
Internal and Disk memory — 1 Block=256 samples; 4 Blocks=lk samples.)
Sounds and sequences must be loaded into the internal memory of the EPS-16
PLUS from the disk before they can be played. Once it's loaded into memory, an
EPS-16 PLUS sound or sequence is completely independent of the copy on the
disk — you can do anything you want to it without harming the version on the
disk, unless you intentionally save the changes. You should feel free to
experiment as much as you like with the instrument, layer, and Wavesample
parameters of any sound that came with the EPS-16 PLUS. As long as you have
it safely on the disk you can just reload it and start over if your experiments go
awry.
Important: The data in the EPS-16 PLUS' internal RAM Memory is not retained when the
power is turned off. Anything in memory, whether instruments, banks, or
sequencer data, must be saved to disk before you switch the power off or it will
be gone forever.
Internal Memory
As it comes out of the box the EPS-16 PLUS contains 2 megabyte or 1024K
words of internal memory (A word is one single sample, or 16 bits.). That
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enough for 34.4 seconds of sampling at a 30 KHz sample rate, or about 320,000
notes of sequencer memory.
This internal memory is shared by samples and the sequencer. The memory is
distributed dynamically between instruments and sequences, which means that
the more sounds you have in memory, the less sequencer memory you have, and
vice-versa.
FLASHBANK
The optional memory expansion FB-1 or FB-2 FLASHBANKs. FLASHBANK
is a semi-permanent storage medium for EPS-16 PLUS instrument files. Any
instruments saved to the FLASHBANK can be instantly loaded and will occupy
NO blocks of internal memory, though it will take an Instrument/Track slot when
loaded Another nice feature of the FLASHBANK is that instruments that are
saved to it will remain in memory even when the EPS-16 PLUS is powered
down. What this means is that as soon as you power up, the instruments in the
FLASHBANK are ready to use.
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