Section 13 — Storage TS-12 Musician’s Manual
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SAVING System Exclusive Data from an External Device
Using the TS-12’s disk drive for storing data from external devices is a three-step process:
1) First you get the TS-12 ready to receive the data via MIDI;
2) next, you send the data from the external MIDI device to the TS-12; and finally
3) you save the data to a formatted disk with the TS-12’s disk drive.
To Save System Exclusive Data from an External MIDI Device:
• Connect the MIDI Out of the sending device to the MIDI In of the TS-12.
• Insert a formatted double-sided 3.5” disk into the TS-12 disk drive.
• Press the Storage button to select the Storage page.
• Press DISK. The Disk Storage menu appears.
• Press SYS-EX REC.
• The display shows SEQUENCER DATA WILL BE ERASED to warn you that any sequences
and songs currently in memory will be lost. It’s not too late, however, to quit and preserve the
sequencer memory intact. Pressing *NO* at this point will return you to the Storage page
without erasing the sequencer memory, allowing you to save it to disk before proceeding.
• Press *YES* to proceed. The following screen appears:
The TS-12 will now record into its memory any System Exclusive message which it receives. At
the upper right of the display (SIZE=##) you see the size (expressed in disk blocks) of the Sys-Ex
data received so far.
> Pressing SAVE lets you name and save to disk what has been received so far (don’t do that
yet).
> Pressing SEND will retransmit whatever has been received so far (don’t do that yet either).
> Pressing *EXIT* returns you to the Storage Page.
• From the external MIDI device, transmit the System Exclusive data. The display will read
STATUS=RECEIVING.... while the data is being sent.
• When the full message has been received, the display will read STATUS=COMPLETE to
indicate that a complete message was recorded. The display shows how many blocks of data
have been received so far. At this point, assuming there’s enough memory, you can send the
TS-12 another System Exclusive message (from a different instrument, for example) which will
be stored right after the first one. You can save as many different messages as memory
permits in a single Sys-Ex block. Each time, the TS-12 will read STATUS=RECEIVING… and
then return with STATUS=COMPLETE when the complete message has been received. When
the data is later retransmitted, all the messages will be sent out in the order they were
received, with a 100 millisecond pause between each. In this way you could load new data
into all your devices with a single Load command from the TS-12.
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