Roland TD-50 - Backing up Drum Kit to an SD Card (1 KIT SAVE); Loading Kit Backup Data from an SD Card (1 KIT LOAD)

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Settings
Backing Up Drum Kit to an SD Card (1 KIT SAVE)
Here’s how settings of an individual drum kit stored in the TD-50
can be backed up to an SD card (up to 999 drum kits).
1. Insert an SD card into the TD-50 (p. 8).
2. Press the [SD CARD] button.
3. Press the PAGE [UP] [DOWN] button to access page 2 (SD
CARD BACKUP 1KIT).
4. Press the [F1] (1KIT SAVE) button.
The SD CARD SAVE <1KIT> screen appears.
User sample icon
(shown only if a drum kit that uses
user samples (p. 27) is selected)
5. Make backup settings.
Parameter Explanation
With User Sample
Select whether the user samples assigned to
the drum kit are also backed up.
User Select the drum kit that you want to back up.
SD Card Select the backup number.
* If you back up user samples as well, it may take several minutes
to save the data depending on the size of the user samples. If
you do not back up user samples, loading the kit backup data
will not correctly reproduce the drum kit if you have deleted
user samples from the TD-50 after making the backup or if you
have renumbered them.
6. Press the [F5] (SAVE) button.
A conrmation message appears.
If you decide to cancel, select “CANCEL” and press the [ENTER] button.
7. Select “OK” and press the [ENTER] button.
The kit backup data is saved on the SD card.
Loading Kit Backup Data from an SD Card
(1 KIT LOAD)
Here’s how kit backup data that was saved on an SD card can be
loaded into the TD-50.
1. Insert an SD card into the TD-50 (p. 8).
2. Press the [SD CARD] button.
3. Press the PAGE [UP] [DOWN] button to access page 2 (SD
CARD BACKUP 1KIT).
4. Press the [F2] (1KIT LOAD) button.
The SD CARD LOAD <1KIT> screen appears.
User sample icon
(shown only if a drum kit that uses
user samples (p. 27) is selected)
5. Make load settings.
Parameter Explanation
With User Sample
Select whether the user samples saved together
with the drum kit are loaded.
SD Card Select the backup number.
User Select the load-destination drum kit.
* When you load user samples, new user samples are created
even if the same user samples already exist. The newly created
user samples are automatically assigned to the loaded drum kit.
* In order to load user samples, there must be sucient free space
for the user samples.
* If you are loading the kit backup data that does not include user
samples, you can’t select the “With User Sample” check box.
6. Press the [F5] (LOAD) button.
A conrmation message appears.
If you decide to cancel, select “CANCEL” and press the [ENTER] button.
7. Select “OK” and press the [ENTER] button.
The kit backup data is loaded from the SD card.
SD card folder structure
EXPORT folder
Recorded data that was exported is saved here.
IMPORT folder
If there are audio les that you want to import as user
samples, save them in this folder.
TD-50 folder
Roland folder
The TD-50’s song and backup data is saved here.
Backup folder
Backup data is saved here.
SONG folder
Recorded song data is
saved here.
Kit folder
Drum kit backup data is
saved here.