ENSONIQ SQ-80 - Page 170

SQ-80 — Musician's Manual
> DISK IS WRITE-PROTECTED — The plastic Write-Protect tab in the lower-left corner o
f
the disk must be closed (so you can't see through the hole) before anything can be written to the
disk. Close the Write-Protect tab and try again.
> DISK CONTROLLER ERROR - CONSULT MANUAL — If this message appears during
any disk procedure, it might indicate a hardware problem with the SQ-80's Disk Drive controller
chip. Try a different disk; if the message persists, consult an authorized ENSONIQ Service
Center.
SAVE — Saving Data to Disk
There are two ways to save data to the SQ-80's Disk Drive.
1) You can Save the data to an empty or unused file on the disk, or
2) You can "write over" an existing file, replacing it with the new data.
This second option (called Updating a File) lets you easily save changes you make to a Program or
Sequencer Bank during a work session. We will cover Saving new files first, and then discuss Updating
old Files.
SAVE
NEW FILE — Saving New Files to Disk
When you press SAVE from the Disk Storage Menu, the Display shows:
Press SAVE NEW FILE, the Display shows the following:
-> SYS-EX — Lets you receive via MIDI, and save to disk, System Exclusive messages from othe
r
devices. The MIDI Sys-Ex Storage procedure is covered in depth in the next section. Here we
will concern ourselves with saving SQ-80 data.
-> ONE (SEQ) — Lets you save the Current Sequence to disk. When One Sequence is saved, no
matter how much or how little memory it uses, it will occupy one of the ten availa
b
le Sequencer/
Sys-Ex Blocks on the disk (see Disk Capacity above). This is necessary because it is possible
for one Sequence to be up to 64k long. This is not a particularly efficient means of storing
Sequencer data. It is most useful for temporarily storing single Sequences from different sessions
prior to combining (loading) them into one Sequencer Bank.
158 Section 6 — Data Storage