Roland EM-55 owner manual Disk functions, Loading User Programs from disk, Saving files to disk

Disk functions

17. Disk functions

The EM-55’s Disk functions allow you to save the Recorder Song in the internal Song RAM memory to disk, to save and load your User Programs to and from disk, to format floppy disks, to delete files on a floppy disk, and to copy disks.

Though you can use 2DD or 2HD floppies, 2HD disks have twice the capacity of 2DD disks, so use 2HDs whenever you can.

Whenever the disk drive writes data to or reads data on disk, the Disk icon ( ) flashes in the display. Do not remove the floppy disk while this icon is displayed as that may damage both the disk drive and the disk (so that it becomes unreadable).

Loading User Programs from disk

This load function is called LOAD UPr. It allows you to transfer a set of 64 User Programs (i.e. for all memories) to the EM-55’s internal memory. This will overwrite the User Programs that currently reside in the internal memories.

Note: If you wish to use the User Programs in the internal memory at a later stage, first save them to disk before proceeding. See p. 52.

(1)Insert a disk into the drive.

(2)Press [DISK] to select the Disk mode.

Note: Press [DISK] if you do not want to load the selected file after all.

If you pressed [EXECUTE], the display now shows the message “Loading”. Once the data have been loaded, the “Complete” message briefly appears.

(5)Press [MUSICAL GAME], [TONE], [STYLE], or [FUNCTION] to select another mode.

Possible error messages

No Disk You forgot to insert a floppy disk into the drive.

The “LOAD UPr” function is already selected, so there is nothing else you need to do.

(3)Wait until the VALUE message starts flashing, then use the [TEMPO/DATA] dial to select the file whose contents you wish to load (example: “USPR_000”).

(4)Press the [EXECUTE] button (next to [DISK]) to load the selected file.

Saving files to disk

The EM-55 provides the following Save functions:

SAVE UPr: Use this function to save the con- tents of the internal User Program memories (all 64 of them) to a floppy disk.

SAVE Sng: This allows you to save the Song in the internal memory to a floppy disk. A Song saved to disk becomes a Standard MIDI File. .

Note: There is no LOAD Sng function. All you need to do to transfer the Song data back to the internal Song memory is play back the Standard MIDI File in question.

(1)Insert a disk into the drive.

Every floppy contains a square tab that allows you to “close” a little window. With the tab in that position, you can save data to the disk. Do not forget to write-enable the disk by closing this little window prior to inserting the floppy disk.

No Files	The disk you insert contains no User
	Program data.
Disk Err	The disk is probably damaged and
	cannot be used.
File Err	The file you selected is damaged and
	cannot be loaded.

(2)Press [DISK] and use the [TEMPO/DATA] dial to select “SAVE Sng” or “SAVE UPr”.

(3)Wait until the VALUE message starts flashing, then use [TEMPO/DATA] dial to move the flashing cursor to the character position you want to change (the “O” in the illustration below).

VALUE	SONG¶	_001	120
			TEMPO

(4)Enter the character with [A/B], the numeric keypad, and [VARIATION].

You may have to press the same button sev- eral times.

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