CREATING A SONG

3M EFFICIENT USE OF MEMORY

The more efficiently you use memory, the more space you’ll have available for storing all those wonderful drum patterns. Consider a song where you have an 8 measure chorus, consisting of 7 identical measures followed by 1 different measure that serves as a “fill”.

The least efficient use of memory would be to treat the entire 8 measure chorus as one long segment.

A much better use of memory would be to treat the 7 identical measures as 7 distinct song steps, followed by an additional song step for the “fill”.

The best use of memory would be to repeat the Identical measure 7 times (this only requires three song steps: begin repeat, the segment number of the measure, and end repeat 7 times), followed by an additional song step for the “fill”.

Remember, the most efficient way to use memory is to repeat segments whenever possible. Song steps take up very little memory space compared to the memory needed to record a segment; any time you can replace segments with song step instructions, you save considerable amounts of memory.

The shorter the segment, the better. If a segment consists of two identical measures, change it into one measure and repeat it twice.

Periodically check the remaining percentage of memory (see Section 2M). If you start getting close to a memory full condition, erase unneeded segments, or program a smaller number of songs. You may save what you already have on disk or on tape via the cassette interface (see Part 5).

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SP-12 specifications

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