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SQ-80 — Musician's Manual
When you press the Soft button under
TAPE on the STORAGE Page, the following screen appears:
From here you select which of the three available functions you want.
SAVE — Saving Programs and Sequences on Tape
To SAVE SQ-80 Data to Audio Tape
-> Connect the SQ-80's Tape Out Jack to the Input of one channel of your tape recorder (or to both
channels, as described above).
-> Put your Tape Deck in Record/Pause.
-> Select the
STORAGE Page, and select TAPE from the menu there.
-> Press
SAVE. The Display shows the following:
-> Start the Deck Recording.
Press:
 INT
BANKS to save the
forty Internal Programs : or
 ONE SEQ to save the
current
Sequence; or
•
ALL SEQ to save the entire Sequencer memory (all Sequences and Songs)
This starts the Data Transfer. The Display will read *SAVING DATA TO TAPE*. The SQ-
80 will put out an eight second "Leader" tone. During the Leader tone, adjust the Recorder's Input
level. The VU meter readings right at
0 dB seem to work best for home and semi-pro cassette
decks: slightly lower (around
-6) for professional equipment operating at +4 dBm. The Leader
tone is followed by the Data, which takes about 16 seconds for Program data, or up to four minutes
for a fully loaded Sequencer memory.
____> When the Data has been transferred, the Display reads
*TAPE PROCEDURE COMPLETE*,
and the STORAGE Page returns.
____> Stop the Tape Deck, and Verify the Transfer, as described below.
VERIFY — Verifying Program and Sequence Data Saved to Tape
After you have saved Data to Tape, you should Verify the Data on the tape, to make sure that the transfer
was successful. This will save you from finding out later, when you try to Load the data back into the
SQ-80, that a dropout, the wrong recording level or some other problem has garbled your data (very
annoying).
To VERIFY SQ-80 Data Saved to Audio Tape
> Connect the Output of the channel of your tape recorder that contains the Program Data to the
SQ-80's Tape In Jack.
Select the
STORAGE Page, and select TAPE from the menu there.
182 Section 6 — Data Storage