Roland Vs-880 important safety instructions When the data cannot be Saved on a single disk Archive

Chapter 6 Use with a Zip drive

■When the data cannot be

saved on a single disk (Archive)

●Archive

Use this method when you are using a removable disk drive and several disks will be required to copy the specified song data.

When song data is copied using this method, the song data will be converted into a data format specifically for saving (archive format). This means that it will not be possible to directly playback etc. the song data by specifying the saving destination disk drive as the current drive. If you wish to use the song data which was copied, you will need to load the archive data into the current drive using the appropriate procedure.

< Optimize >

Even when overdubbing and punch-in recording are repeated, the original data that was rewritten (the unwanted data) will remain on the disk. By erasing this unwanted data from the disk, you can decrease the size occupied by the song.

If the song will not fit on a single disk, try using Optimize (p.113). In some cases this will make the song data com- pact enough to be saved on a single disk.

Procedure for saving on multiple disks (Store In)

Use this method when using a removable disk drive and two or more disks are required in order to copy the speci- fied song data.

In order to use song data which has been copied with this method, you must use the procedure of the following page to load the archived song data from the removable disk back into the current drive.

< Disk handling >

When using this operation to copy song data, the disk will be initialized to hold archive-type song data. This means that this operation can be executed using even a disk which has not been initialized by the VS-880. However be aware that if you use this operation to copy data to a disk which already contains song data, all of the previously saved song data will be lost.

A disk on which song data has been archived cannot be selected as the current drive in the way that a disk con- taining conventional song data can be. If you attempt to select an archive disk as the current drive, it will be recog- nized as an un-initialized disk drive.

This section explains the procedure for copying song data to a Zip drive (SCSI ID number 5) as an external disk drive.

1.Connect the Zip drive as explained in “Using an exter- nal disk drive” (p.130).

2.Press [SONG], use PARAMETER [ ][ ] to get the “SNG Song Copy” display, and press [YES].

3.The display will indicate “SNG CpyMode=,” so use the TIME/VALUE dial to set this to “Archive.”

4.Press PARAMETER [ ] to get the “SNG ArcTarget=” display, and use the TIME/VALUE dial to select the song that you wish to copy.

If you wish to copy the currently selected song, select Ò1 Song.Ó To copy all songs from the current drive, select ÒAll.Ó

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5.Press PARAMETER [ ] to get the “SNG Arc.Drive=” display, and use the TIME/VALUE dial to select the copy destination disk drive.

Here we will copy the data to a Zip drive, so select ÒSC5:U.Ó

For this operation, you will be able to select only removable disk drives which are connected to the SCSI connector. It is not possible to select the current drive (the internal hard disk) as the copy destination drive.

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6.Press PARAMETER [ ] to get the “SNG Arc.Func=” display, and use the TIME/VALUE dial to select “Stow In.”

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