Technics sx-PR804/M SMF Load, On the Load page 1/3 display, press SMF button, Composer Load

Part VI Disk Drive

SMF LOAD

Load data which was saved in the “Standard MIDI File” (SMF) format.

1.On the LOAD (PAGE 1/3) display, press the

SMF button.

•The display looks similar to the following.

•For disks which contain SMF files only, this display ap- pears automatically when LOAD is selected on the DISK MENU display.

2.Use the buttons below the display to select

the filename you wish to load.

•If the number of files is 10 or more, you can use the PREV and NEXT buttons to go back or advance 10 files at a time.

•If you press the TECH button, the display changes to the LOAD display for Technics files.

•You can use the INFO button to switch the displayed data. DISK: Disk name

SONG: Song name

3.Use the TO SONG button to select the number to load to (this instrument’s SEQUENCER

song number).

•Songs to load are specified one at a time.

•The song name to load to is shown below the TO SONG button.

5.Press the LOAD button.

•The LOAD operation begins.

•When the operation has been successfully completed, “COMPLETED!” is shown on the display.

•If you press the START/STOP button, playback of the loaded data begins.

•During the LOAD operation, data that cannot be processed by this instrument is ignored.

COMPOSER LOAD

Load COMPOSER data only from a disk.

1.In the RHYTHM GROUP section, press and hold the LOAD (MEMORY) button for a few seconds.

		RHYTHM GROUP
8&16	ROCK & POP	BALLAD	JAZZ & SWING	MOVIE &	METRONOME
BEAT				SHOW
SOUL &	GOSPEL &	COUNTRY &	MARCH &	LATIN &	MEMORY
DISCO	BLUES	WESTERN	WALTZ	WORLD

LOAD

• The display looks similar to the following.

Disk Drive

4.Use the LOAD AS button to specify the load

method.

Select from the following.

GM/GM2 → GM2:

Activate the GM2 initialized settings, and load GM/GM2 data.

NX → NX:

Active the NX SOUND settings, and load NX data. GM/GM2 → NX:

Activate the NX SOUND initialized settings, and load GM/GM2 data.

PREV. TEC → NX:

Activate the NX SOUND initialized settings, and load SMF data that was saved in the TECHNICS mode on a previous model. (The volume balance and octave settings may differ from the saved settings.)

•If you select the setting which is different from that in which the song was stored, the sounds, octaves, and arrangement of percussion instrument sounds, etc. will be different.

2.Select the name of the file you wish to load.

3.Press the LOAD button.

•Data is loaded to this instrument’s COMPOSER memory (MEMORY).

About LOAD AS

<→GM2>

The SMF data you load is played back in PARTS 1-16, al- lowing you to play the RIGHT 1, RIGHT 2 and LEFT parts on the keyboard in time with the recording.

•Your keyboard performance is not output as MIDI data.

If you wish your keyboard performance to be output as MIDI data, select <PR → Ext. Sequencer> in MIDI PRE- SETS. (Refer to page 132.)

<→NX>

The SMF data you load is played back matching the part settings and MIDI settings that were in effect when the data was saved.

•SMF data that was saved on models that are not NX-com- patible is played back in parts RIGHT 1, RIGHT 2, LEFT, and PART 4-16.

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