SQ-80 — Musician's Manual
> Press
LOAD. The Display shows the following:
> Start the Tape Deck Playing.
Listen to the Output, or watch
the VU meters, and wait for the
Leader Tone, which precedes
the Data, to begin.
> After
the Leader Tone begins, press ONE SEQ, ALL SEQ or INT BANKS, depending on which
type of data you are loading, This starts the
SQ-80 Loading the Data from the Tape, The Display
will read
*READING DATA FROM TAPE*.
If the Load is successful, the Display will say
*TAPE PROCEDURE COMPLETE*, and then
return you to the appropriate Program or Sequence Select Page.
> When you Load One Sequence
(ONE SEQ) from Tape, that Sequence is placed in the highest-
numbered empty Sequence Memory Location. So if SEQ #60 is not defined, the new Sequence
will be put there when you Load it into the
SQ-80. If location #60 already contains a Sequence,
the new Sequence will be put in Location #59. If locations #59 and 60 contain Sequences, the
new Sequence will be put in Location #58. And so on. If there are no empty Sequence Locations
when you try to Load One Sequence, the Display will read
*NO SEQUENCE LOCATIONS
AVAILABLE*. Erase a Sequence and try again.
ERROR MESSAGES— INT BANKS
If an attempt to Load Internal Program Banks is unsuccessful, one of the following error messages will
appear:
1) *TAPE NOT STARTED ON LEADER TONE* — The Leader Tone must be actually playing
when
you press one of the soft buttons to begin Loading. Try the procedure again. If you are sure
that the tone was playing when you started, then this message probably indicates that the playback
level into the
SQ-80 is too low (so that it cannot detect the tone). Increase the level and try again.
2) *INCORRECT TYPE OF DATA ON TAPE* — The Data was not of the proper type. If you
pressed
INT BANKS while playing back Sequence data, you would get this Error message.
3) *FATAL ERRORS DETECTED—ALL INTERNAL PROGRAMS RESET* This means that
midway through the transfer, the SQ-80 got some bad Data, and had to erase and re-initialize all the
Internal Bank Programs. Usually this means that the level is too high. Reduce the level of the signal
coming into the
SQ-80 and try again.
4) The Display might read *DATA ERROR FROM TAPE WAS FIXED*. This means that the SQ-
80 found one bit of wrong information on the Tape, but was able to correct it. Save the information
to another Tape location.
ERROR MESSAGES— ALL SEQ
If an attempt to Load All Sequencer data is unsuccessful, one of the following error messages will appear:
1) *TAPE NOT STARTED ON LEADER TONE* — The Leader Tone must be actually playing
when you press ALL DATA to begin Loading. Or, the level is too low. Try again with a slightly
higher level.
2) *INCORRECT TYPE OF DATA ON TAPE* — The Data was not Sequence Data.
3) *FATAL ERRORS DETECTED — SEQUENCER MEMORY IS CLEARED*
If the SQ-80
encounters more than one serious Data error after it has already begun replacing the Sequencer
Memory with the Data off the Tape, you will get this message. It means that the Load failed but it
was too late to save the Internal Sequencer Memory. Often this means that the level is too high.
Reduce the level of the signal coming into the
SQ-80 and try again.
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