DDK-7 Owner’s Manual 175
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Rhythm Program
Selecting Rhythm from an External Media
You can load rhythms from a USB flash memory, or other external media and edit and
save them as User Rhythms. Data that can be loaded includes not only that of the
DDK-7, but also all Style File Format files.
Insert the media which contains the desired pattern into the USB
TO DEVICE terminal.
Press the [PROGRAM] button on the panel.
Press [FILE] at the top right in the display.
If you open the FILE Page while the rhythm is playing, the rhythm will
automatically be stopped.
Press the [SELECT] button to select the desired pattern file.
The method for selecting a file is the same as that in the M.D.R. section.
See page 104 for more information.
Press [EXECUTE] or press the highlighted, selected button again
to load the pattern.
To edit the loaded pattern, go to the INPUT Page (page 157), then save your
created pattern(s) as a User Rhythm (page 172).
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About file types that can be loaded to the DDK-7

This DDK-7 is compatible with Style File Format data. The
Style File Format (SFF) is Yamaha’s original style data
format, which uses a unique conversion system to provide
high-quality automatic accompaniment based on a wide
range of chord types. In this format, each rhythm pattern (called a “style”) is made
up of fifteen sections (Intro 1 – 3, Main A – D, Fill In A – D, Break, Ending 1 – 3)
as rhythm pattern variations. Each of these fifteen sections in turn has eight
different parts, made up of MIDI sequence data.
You can load any patterns (styles) which have been created by an SFF-compatible
instrument. Instruments compatible with SFF have the Style File Logo on the
panel.
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