Roland owner manual Cards Handled by the AR-200, Types of Usable Cards, Formatting a Card

Cards Handled by the AR-200

Types of Usable Cards

The AR-200 stores recorded audio and MIDI signals on the card. Additionally, all information other than recorded audio (phrase information) is stored on the card as well. (That is, it is not stored in the AR unit itself.)

This means that you can change the settings simply by swapping cards. For cards used with the AR-200, we recommend Roland’s line of optional PC cards (PM Series):

Roland PC Cards (PM series)

PM-004 (4M bytes)

PM-008 (8M bytes)

PM-016 (16M bytes)

PM-024 (24M bytes)

PM-032 (32M bytes)

PM-040 (40M bytes)

PM-080 (80M bytes)

PM-096 (96M bytes)

PM-184 (184M bytes)

PM-256 (256M bytes)

PM-01G (1G bytes)

You can also use a Smart Media adaptor (the optional SMA-1).

→ This adaptor allows commercially available Smart Media cards to be used with the AR-200.

*SmartMedia is a trademark of Toshiba Corporation.

Card Storage Times and Number of Phrases

Information cannot be stored in memory in the AR unit itself, so be sure to purchase cards separately. There are several types of card capacities available. The amount of information that you can store differs according to card capacity.

Depending on the type of PC card or SmartMedia you are using, it may not be possible to perform recording or playback at the set RDAC-Grade and RDAC-Mode due to data write speed and other factors.

Basic Editing Operations

A maximum of 250 phrases may be created on cards formatted on the AR-200.

*The available recording time for a single card varies according to card capacity and recording settings.

*For a rough guide to maximum recording times with various settings, see the

"Card Audio Recording Time Chart" in the reference materials (p. 53).

Formatting a Card

Depending on the length of stored phrases, it may not be possible to create the set maximum number of phrases.

When you use a new card or a card used previously on a device other than the unit, you must first format (initialize) the card.

*Cards formatted on the AR-3000 can be used just as they are.

*Please refer to p. 18 for information regarding previous models (AR-2000/100/1).

The time required for formatting a card varies with the card type (capacity), but may last from several seconds up to ten or twenty seconds.

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