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Overview
Temporary memory
Temporary area
The scene, tone, and sequence data selected 
by the buttons on the panel and so forth are 
temporarily stored here.
When you’re playing, the sound plays 
according to the settings in the temporary 
area. Also, when you edit scene, tone, or 
sequence data, this does not directly change 
the data in memory, but rather loads it into 
the temporary area to be changed.
The settings in this area are temporary, and 
are lost when the power is turned o or other 
settings are recalled. If you want to keep the 
settings in the temporary area, save them to 
a user memory or to a USB ash drive.
Writable memory
System memory
The overall system settings of the XPS-60 are 
stored here. To store the system parameters, 
you must save the system settings (p. 33).
User memory
This is the memory that’s used to store data 
internally on this unit. Use the save (write) 
operation to store data to this area.
 ¹ Save a scene (p. 32)
 ¹ Save a tone (p. 33)
 ¹ Save a drum kit (p. 33)
Expansion memory
This memory area is used to store the World 
Expansion data.
USB ash drive
 ¹ You can back up the user memory data 
and system parameter settings together 
here (p. 53).
 ¹ You can also import SVZ/EXZ and WAV 
les to the XPS-60, and export this data 
from the XPS-60 (p. 50).
Read-only memory
Preset memory
The data in the preset memory cannot be 
overwritten.
However, you can edit the settings that you 
recalled to the temporary area. These settings 
can then be saved to user memory.
Memories
The locations where scenes, tones and other settings are stored are called “memories”.
Functionally speaking, there are three types of memory: temporary memory, writable memory (user memory, system memory and USB ash 
drive), and read-only memory (preset memory).
USB ash drive (root directory)
User memory
System 
memory
System
settings
XPS-60
User scenes
User tones
User drum kits
Preset memory
Preset tones
Preset drum kits
Preset rhythm patterns
Preset rhythm groups
Preset arpeggio styles
User rhythm groups
Step sequencer
Sample 
memory
Expansion 
memory
User User 
samplessamples
Wave Wave 
datadata
XPS-60 folder
Temporary area (temporary memory)
SelectSelect SaveSaveSelectSelect
ROLAND folder
WAV les
IMPORT folder
BackupBackupRestoreRestore
SOUND folder
SVZ les
ImportImport ImportImport
EXZ les
Preset scenes
Preset chord memories
ImportImport
ExportExport
BACKUP folder
Backup