Chapter 7 Use with a Zip Drive

Saving a Song to a Single Disk (Playable)

Here, the procedure for saving a playable copy of a song on the VS-880EX’s internal hard disk to a Zip disk which is set to SCSI ID Number 5 is explained.

The approximate times which can be copied to one Zip disk (100 Mbyte) are as follows (calculated as one track).

Recording

 

Sample Rate

 

Mode

48.0kHz

44.1kHz

32.0kHz

 

 

 

 

MAS

17mins.

18mins.

26mins.

MT1

34mins.

37mins.

52mins.

MT2

46mins.

50mins.

69mins.

LIV

55mins.

60mins.

83mins.

(All times approximate)

1.Select the disk containing the source song you want to copy as the current drive.

2.Press [SONG] several times until “SNG Song Copy ?” appears in the display.

3.Press [YES].

“SNG CpyMode=” appears in the display.

4.Rotate the TIME/VALUE dial. Here, select “Playable.”

CpyMode

Select how the song will be copied.

9.Press [YES].

A message asking if you want to continue appears in the display.

10.If “ALL” is specified as the target in step 6, a con- firmation message will ask you whether you want to initialize the copy destination disk drive. If you wish to initialize the copy destination disk drive and copy the song data, press [YES]. In this case, all song data that had been saved on the copy des- tination disk drive will be lost. If you wish to copy without initializing, press [NO].

11.Press [YES].

“STORE Current?” (Store the current song?) appears in the display.

12.If you wish to save the current song, press [YES]; if not, then press [NO]. If you have selected a demo song, then press [NO].

13.When the Playable Copy procedure is finished, return to Play condition.

If “Disk Memory Full” Appears in the Display

This indicates that the destination disk has insuffi- cient free space, or that the number of songs on the disk has exceeded the maximum number (200 songs) that can be stored on the disk, and that the copy procedure was canceled. However, you can still use the song data copied up to that point.

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Playable:

Playable type.

Archives:

Archives type.

5.Press PARAMETER [ ].

“SNG CpyTarget=” appears in the display.

6.Rotate the TIME/VALUE dial. If you wish to copy the current song, select “1 Song.” To copy all songs from the current drive, select “All.”

7.Press PARAMETER [ ].

“SNG Dest.Drive=” appears in the display.

8.Rotate the TIME/VALUE dial. Select the copy destination disk drive. The internal hard disk will be shown as “IDE,” and external disk drives will be shown as “SC0–SC7.” The number following each disk drive indicates the partition number. For example if you wish to copy to a Zip disk, select “SC5:0.”

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