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Chapter 4

Chapter 4 Recording and Saving the Performance

Using Floppy Disks
	You can use the KR-7/5’s disk drive to save songs to floppy disks and listen to
If you’re using the disk drive
			commercial music files.
		for the first time, be sure to
■ Inserting and Ejecting a Floppy Disk			read the important notes on
			p. 6.
Inserting a floppy disk
1. With the front of the floppy disk facing up, insert the disk in the disk
	drive slot until there is an audible click.
				NOTE
fig.diskdrive.e			Never remove the disk while
			it is being read or written.
			Doing so will scratch the
	Indicator	Eject Button
			magnetic surface of the disk,
			making it unusable. (The
			disk drive indicator will light
			brightly while data is being
		Floppy Disk	read or written. Normally, it
			will be lit dimly or will be
Removing a floppy disk
			dark.)
2. Press the Eject button.
				NOTE
	The end of the floppy disk comes out of the slot. Grasp the edge of the floppy disk		When a floppy disk is
	and gently pull it out.		initialized, all of the data
■ Formatting Floppy Disks (Format)			saved on the disk is erased.
			If you’re formatting a used
	A newly purchased floppy disk, or a floppy disk that has been used by another		floppy disk for reuse, be
	device cannot be used as is. Such floppy disks must be “formatted” (initialized) for		sure to check first to make
			sure the disk doesn’t contain
	use with the KR-7/5.
			any data you don’t want to
	If a floppy disk is in a format that doesn’t match the format of this unit, you won’t be
			lose.
	able to use that floppy disk.

fig.panel4-3

KR-7

First make sure that the protect tab of the floppy disk is in the “Write (write enable)” position.

fig.DiskProtect.e

Rear side of the disk

Write

(can write new data onto disk)

Write Protect Tab	Protect
	(prevents writing to disk)

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