Roland XV-88 owner manual Temporary Memory, Non-Rewritable Memory

Temporary Memory

Temporary Area

This area holds data for the Performance, Patch, and Rhythm Set you select using the front panel buttons.

When you play the keyboard or play back an external sequence, sound is produced based on data in the temporary area. When you modify a Performance, Patch, or Rhythm Set, you are modifying the data that has been called into the temporary area instead of the data in memory.

Settings in the temporary area are temporary, and will be lost when the power is turned off or when you select another Performance/Patch/Rhythm Set. To keep the settings you have modified, you must write them into rewritable memory.

Rewritable Memory

System Memory

System memory stores system parameter settings that determine how the XV-88 functions. Any time you make changes in the system parameters, such changes are automatically stored in system memory (you don’t need to perform a save). These settings are non-volatile, so they are retained even while the power is turned off.

User Memory

User memory is where you normally store the data you need. User memory is capable of storing the data for 64 Performances, 128 Patches, and four Rhythm Sets.

Memory Card (SmartMedia)

Memory cards are read/write cards that allow you to save the Patch, Performance, Rhythm Set, System and Favorite List settings stored in the internal memory as one file (Save), and return them as needed to the XV-88 (Load). You can use memory cards to store data for which there is no room in internal user memory, or data which you wish to use on another XV-88.

Memory cards are not included. They are available from your retailer.

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Non-Rewritable Memory

Preset Memory

Data in Preset memory (Patch: PR-A–F, H, Performance: PR-

A, B, Rhythm Set: PR-A–F, H) cannot be rewritten. However, you can call up settings from preset memory into the temporary area, modify them and then store the modified data in rewritable memory (except PR-H).

Wave Expansion Boards (optional: SR-JV80/SRX Series)

The XV-88 can be equipped with up to four Wave Expansion Boards (two SR-JV80 Series, two SRX Series). Wave Expansion Boards contain Wave data, as well as Patches and Rhythm Sets that use this Wave data, which can be called directly into the temporary area and played.

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