Operation

To erase A and B that remain from the first take, and recover disk space

Execute the Optimize Track command on track 1 from the beginning to the end of the song. When this is exe- cuted, only the audio data of the 1st take Intro, 2nd take A’, 2nd take B’, and 1st take Break will be kept. This means that the 1st take A and 1st take B data will no longer occupy disk space.

 

Intro

 

A

 

B

 

Break

 

 

 

 

A'

 

B'

 

 

 

IN

 

 

“OptimizeTrack”

OUT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Intro Break

A' B'

Example 3: You recorded A and B on track 1 as the first take. As the second take, you overwrite-recorded the Intro, A’, B’, and Break.

AB

USB

What is USB?

USB stands for Universal Serial Bus, and is an interface for transferring data between a computer and peripheral devices.

USB peripheral devices such as hard disks or CD-R/RW drives cannot be connected to the D1200.

The D1200 has a [USB] connector which you can connect directly to your computer, and save data to your computer from the USB drive area of the D1200’s internal hard disk. Using the USB drive, the following types of data can be saved to your computer or loaded from your computer.

Song data

This is data for each track, as well as data such as pan and effect settings. Since this data is in the D1200’s own unique format, it cannot be played or edited on your computer or any device other than the D1200. In order to play this data, you must restore it to the D1200.

1st take

1st take

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2nd take

 

Intro

 

A'

 

B'

 

Break

In this case, the first take A and B remain “beneath” A’ and B’, but since the audio data of take 1 is not used at all once you finished recording take 2, there is no need to execute the optimize command.

Deleting the Undo data

Even if you use the drive space efficiently as described above (examples 1, 2, 3), the old data will be kept on the drive for use by the Undo function.

If you want to delete this Undo data, you can restart the D1200. When the D1200 is restarted, all Undo data will be deleted, and the unused drive space will be recov- ered.

Sharing event data

If you use the Copy Track operation to copy track data to another track (e.g., virtual track) or another song, this audio data will be shared, so that the drive capacity will not decrease. However if you execute the Optimize Track operation on the copy-destination or copy-source track, new audio data will be created, and this will mean that a greater amount of drive capacity will be used than before the operation was executed.

In the case of example 2, if you copy the first take to another track before you record the second time, executing the Optimize Track operation will not delete the “A” and “B” regions of the first take, and audio data for the “Intro” and “Break” regions will be newly created, meaning that a greater amount of drive capacity will be used.

Effect user data

This is the data that has been stored in the effect program user area.

Since this data is in the D1200’s own unique format, it cannot be edited on your computer.

In order to use this effect data, you must restore it to the D1200.

WAV files: WAV format audio files

This is audio track data that was copied to the clipboard.

1. Saving data to your computer

Do not format the D1200’s hard disk from your compu- ter. The hard disk may be formatted only by the D1200 itself.

In order to use the D1200 with Windows 98, you must install a device driver. For details on obtaining and installing the device driver, refer to the Korg website (www.korg.com).

The computer screen will differ depending on your sys- tem. The screens shown here are for Windows XP.

Windows users (Windows Me/2000 or later)

1Use a USB cable to connect the D1200 to your computer. Connect the USB cable from your computer to the D1200’s [USB] connector. Make sure that the connector is oriented correctly, and press it all the way in.

Before you make connections, turn on your computer and start up the operating system.

2Access the “USB Mode” screen.

In the [SYSTEM/USB] “DiskUtil” tab page, select “USB Mode” and press the [ENTER] key.

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