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Saving a Group of Tones to a Memory Card

The Performances, Patches, Rhythm Sets, System and Favorite List settings in internal memory can be saved as a single file onto a memory card.

•Data files contain an entire set of parameter settings for the sound generator. It is not possible to save individual Patches or Performances to a memory card.

•In order to use a memory card, you must first turn off the power, and then insert a memory card into the MEMORY CARD slot as follows.

Insert with the surface with the gold connector facing up

Before a memory card can be used, it must be formatted (p. 189).

1.Make sure that the write protect seal has been removed from the memory card being inserted into the MEMORY CARD slot.

You cannot save data to a memory card to which the write protect seal is still affixed.

2.Press [UTILITY], getting its indicator to start blinking. The UTIL 1 page will appear.

3.Press to call up the UTIL 2 page.

4.Press or to get “3. SAVE” to start blinking, then press [ENTER].

The SAVE page will appear.

	File name
File number	Bank

Chapter 8. Saving Sounds

5.When saving to a new memory card, the data is saved to File Number: 01, Bank: A. Afterwards, up to File Number: 08, the next saved file is assigned automatically to the subsequent Bank B–H.

To overwrite a previously existing file, select the file number of that file.

The Banks A–H assigned here correspond to the Card Group Banks A–H, but in this case you can select Performances, Patches, and Rhythm Sets directly, rather than having to use the Load operation to read files on memory cards into the XV-88 (p. 190).

To change and delete assignments to the Banks A–H, use the CARD INFO page (p. 190).

6.When necessary, change the file name. You can assign the file a name of up to eight characters.

For details on assigning names, refer to “Assigning a Name” (p. 28).

7.Press [ENTER] to execute the save operation.

The number of files that can be saved on a card will depend on the memory capacity of the card itself.

If you attempt to save to a memory card that still has the write protect seal affixed to it, the message “Memory Card Write Protected” appears in the display. First turn off the XV-88’s power, then after peeling off the write protect seal, try saving the data once more.

Load data saved to memory cards back to the XV-88 in the LOAD page (p. 190) or the TRANSFER TO USER page (p. 186).

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