Edit environment. (See diagram at the bottom of this page). When you press GLOBAL or DISK, an edit environ- ment overlaps the current operating mode. Press EXIT to go back to the current operating mode.

An edit environment is made up of a menu and a series of edit pages. Use the MENU and PAGE buttons to browse across the various edit pages.

Selecting windows. When you press one of the STYLE or PROGRAM/PERFORMANCE buttons, you open a selecting window. This window closes after selecting one of the items in it, or after pressing EXIT.

If the DISPLAY HOLD LED is light up, the window doesn’t close after selecting an item. Press EXIT to close the window, and go back to the underlying page.

MESSAGE WINDOWS

Sometimes, a message appears in the display, warning about an error or a wrong operation:

Not a Standard

MIDI File

Press ENTER or EXIT to exit one of these windows.

Other messages ask for an answer, as in the “Are you sure” window below:

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Message windows

Realtime/Keyboard track (Upper 1-3, Lower).

Drum track (Style track view).

Percussion track (Style track view).

Grouped Drum and Percussion tracks.

Bass track (Style track view).

Grouped accompaniment tracks. This symbol indicates the five grouped accompaniment tracks (Acc1-5).

Accompaniment tracks (Style track view).

Sequencer tracks.

Selected track or parameter. When this symbol

appears, you can execute any available opera- tion on the selected item.

(no icon) The track is in mute, and can’t play on the key- board.

GRAYED-OUT NON-AVAILABLE PARAMETERS

Currently non-available parameters are now shown in “gray” in the display, i.e. with a “ghost” texture. Here is an example of a grayed-out parameter, compared to a normal parameter:

Press ENTER/YES for Yes, or EXIT/NO for No.

SYMBOLS AND ICONS

Text in solid black

Text in gray

Many icons and symbols, on the custom display, show the status of a parameter or the display content.

Edit environment

 

 

 

Disk Menu

Disk:Load

 

Load

Format

 

NEWNAME.SET

Save

New Dir

 

LIVE.SET

 

Copy

Rename

 

ETHNICA.SET

Erase

Utilities

FD

LOAD OPEN

CLOSE

Menu

 

Edit pages

 

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