Alesis MMT-8 manual Tape

Models: MMT-8

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21 TAPE

21 TAPE

The TAPE button is used to access the tape interface features of the MMT-8. This allows the user to save and retrieve sequence data with an ordinary cassette recorder. Pressing and holding the TAPE button results in the following display:

Pressing the RECORD button initiates the save to tape. Both buttons can now be released, since this operation may take over two minutes, during which the display will read:

The display shows the current part or song being output. This display will advance until all data is output. Pressing the STOP/CONTINUE button will abort the operation. Before pressing RECORD, the page up and page down buttons can be used to access the other five tape pages. They are as follows:

In all five of these pages, pressing RECORD initiates the operation. The verify function is used to ensure that the data just recorded to tape is good. LOAD ALL PARTS & SONGS FROM TAPE loads the entire sequence memory with the data on tape. LOAD ONE PART FROM TAPE and LOAD ONE SONG FROM TAPE allow a single part or song to be loaded from a tape. The keypad can be used to select the desired number. For operations involving output to tape, after pressing RECORD the display will change to the following:

When the initial tone on the tape is detected, the display shows (depending on the page shown when RECORD was pressed):

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Alesis MMT-8 manual Tape