EPS-16 PLUS Musician's Manual
Section 11 — Storage Functions
This prompt is informing you that an instrument or song saved as part of the bank
is on a different disk than the disk currently in the drive. When this occurs:
• Eject the current disk in the disk drive and replace it with the disk that matches
the Disk Label ID requested by the EPS-16 PLUS (you are writing these names
on your disks, aren't you?). For more information on Disk Label identification
see Section 2 — System Control
• Press Enter. The EPS-16 PLUS will resume loading until completed, or until
the point when it needs another disk.
• When it has done loading the instruments, the EPS-16 PLUS will load the song
(if any) and then set up any copied instruments included in the bank.
Saving the Contents of Memory as a Bank
Saving a bank is like taking a "snapshot" of the contents of the EPS-16 PLUS
memory. When you later load a bank the EPS-16 PLUS "looks" at that snapshot
and tries to recreate what was in memory when the bank was saved. You can use
banks to automatically load a new group of instruments and/or a new song.
Banks are valuable for this reason: EPS-16 PLUS songs and sequences have no
way of knowing which instruments are loaded into various Instrument•Track
locations. Suppose, for example, you record a track with a piano instrument, but
then load a kazoo sample into the instrument location where the piano was. The
track will now play on the kazoo. By using banks you can avoid this sort of
thing.
It's easy to save the contents of the EPS-16 PLUS memory as a bank. Just bear
in mind that any instruments in the internal memory, as well as the song, must be
saved separately before they can be saved as a bank.
• Save any instruments in memory to disk using the SAVE INSTRUMENT
command on the COMMAND/Instrument page.
• Save the song to disk (if you want a song as part of the bank) using the SAVE
SONG + ALL SEQS command on the COMMAND/Seq•Song page.
• Press Command, then Instrument.
• Press the Left or Right Arrow button until the display reads SAVE BANK.
• Press Enter•Yes. The display shows:
The display shows the current name with a cursor (underline) beneath the first
character. If you want to give the bank a new name, do so at this time. Use the
Data Entry Slider or the Up/Down Arrow buttons to change the
underlined character, then press the Left or Right Arrow button to move the
underline. Repeat until the display shows the name you want. (If you are
updating an existing bank, don't rename the bank; just press Enter•Yes and
then press Enter•Yes once more in response to the question DELETE OLD
VERSION?)
• Press Enter•Yes.
It's not necessary for the instruments and song to be saved on the same disk as
the bank. Each instrument, the song and the bank can be saved on separate disks.
Disk Storage
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