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Chapter 4 Recording and Saving the Performance

■Saving Your Songs on Floppy Disk

A recorded performance is discarded when you switch off the power, or choose another song. The process of storing data such as recorded performances on floppy disk is called “saving.” It’s a good idea to store important songs on floppy disk.

Before using a new floppy disk or a floppy disk used on another device, it must be formatted on the KF-90. Take a look at “Formatting Floppy Disks (Format)” (p. 109).

1. Make sure the write-protect tab on the floppy disk is positioned at “WRITE” (write enabled).

For details, refer to p. 110.

2. With the label of the floppy disk facing upward, insert it into the disk drive until it clicks into position.

3. Press the [Song/Disk] button.

A Song/Disk screen appears.

4. Touch <Disk> on the screen.

A Song Disk Menu screen appears.

5. Touch <Save>.

The following screen will appear.

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NOTE

Depending on the playback

instrument, some notes

may drop out or sound

different.

NOTE

Some commercially available music files cannot be saved because they are copyrighted.

If not handled with care, a floppy disk can get cracked, or the data on it can get corrupted, making playback impossible. We recommend saving your songs on two different floppy disks. By putting away for safekeeping an additional copy of a floppy disk on which your songs are saved, you can feel safer.

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Touch <Exit> to go back to the Song Disk Menu screen.

6. Touch to scroll the cursor sideways, and enter the name of the song by using the Value [-] [+] buttons or the dial to choose the letters.

Assign a name to the song to be saved.

Touch <A-a-0-!> at the bottom of the screen to change the type of script. Each touch of <A-a-0-!> cycles the type of characters through “English (upper case),” “English (lower case),” “numerals,” “symbols,” then back to “English (upper case).”

Touching <_> inserts a blank space at the cursor location.

NOTE

Inserting a floppy disk containing one or more saved songs into another device (such as a computer) with the floppy disk’s protect tab left in the “write” position may, depending on the device, render the songs on that floppy disk permanently unplayable (refer to the cautions on p. 6).

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