The QY300’s built-in floppy disk drive makes high-volume data storage and retrieval easy. It also facilitates data management, allowing you to create a well-organized personal floppy-disk data library.

•The QY300 uses

2DD (double density) 3.5-inch floppy disks.

When formatted a single disk provides a total data capacity of about 713 kilobytes.

•Any new disk you intend to use with the QY300 must be formatted first. The format op- eration is described on page 125.

Direct Save & Load From the Song, Pattern, Phrase, & Chain Modes

The main SONG, PATTERN, PHRASE, and CHAIN mode displays all provide direct access to the disk save and load functions via the [F5] and [F6] keys. The type of data saved or loaded corresponds to the mode you’re in.

ModeData Saved or Loaded

 

 

SONG

Single songs (01 ... 10). When saving you can specify the song

 

number to be saved and the file name under which it will be saved

 

on disk. When loading you specify the song file to be loaded and

 

the song number to which it is to be loaded.

 

 

PATTERN

Single styles (001 ... 100). When saving you can specify the

 

number of the style to be saved and the file name under which it

 

will be saved to disk. When loading you specify the style file to be

 

loaded and the style number to which it is to be loaded.

 

 

PHRASE

Single user phrases (001 ... 100). When saving you can specify the

 

number of the phrase to be saved and the file name under which it

 

will be saved to disk. When loading you specify the phrase file to

 

be loaded and the phrase number to which it is to be loaded.

 

 

CHAIN

All data. All 10 songs, 100 patterns, and 100 user phrases are saved

 

to disk in a single file. You can specify the file name. When load-

 

ing you specify the all-data file to be loaded.

 

 

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