Korg PA1X User Manual page 81

Storage device
Use this pop-up menu to select one of the available storage
devices.
Device Type
FD Floppy disk
HD Hard disk (optional of the Pa1X)
CD CD (optional)
Open
Opens the selected folder (item whose icon looks like this one:
).
Close
Closes the current folder, returning to the parent ("upper")
folder.
Sync P. (Synchronized Path)
Press this button to see the Song assigned to the selected
Sequencer. This is useful to quickly return to it, after you have
browsed through long directories and dug into different folders.
Select
Selects the highlighted item in the display. If a Song is already
playing, it stops, and the new Song is ready to play. You are
returned to the main page.
Play All
When this button is pressed, all midifiles and MP3 files con-
tained in the current directory are added to a new Jukebox list,
that is automatically assigned to Sequencer 1. The order in
which they are played depends on the current sorting method,
i.e., how the files are shown in the display.
You can use this Jukebox list as any other list of this type (i.e.,
start the playback with SEQ1 PLAY/STOP, jump to the next Song
in the list with SHIFT + >>, edit it in the Jukebox page...).
Note: A Jukebox list can include up to 127 Songs. If your folder con-
tains more items, only the first 127 will be considered.
Hint: If you don't want to lose the list when turning the instrument
off, go to the Jukebox page and save it to disk as a ".JBX" file.
Selecting a Song by its ID number
Each Song in a folder on disk (up to 9,999) has a progressive ID
number assigned. You can see this number before the Song's
name in the Song Select window. You can use this number to
select the Song by composing the corresponding number, speed-
ing up the Song retrieval when you are using an hard disk filled
with midifiles.
While in the Song Select window, press the SELECT button to
open the keypad, and enter the number corresponding to the
Song to be selected.
While in any page of the Song Play mode, press the SELECT but-
ton twice to open the keypad.
Selecting elements
Note: If no Song corresponds to the dialed number, the "Song not
available" message will appear.
Warning: While the directory may contain more than 9999 files,
you can't select Songs outside the 0001-9999 range when using the
numeric keypad.
Song Select page menu
Press the page menu icon to open the menu. Press a command to
select it. Press anywhere in the display to close the menu without
selecting a command.
Export Song List
Select this command to save the current list as a text file to a
floppy disk. This way, you will be able to print a list of Songs, to
see which number matches each Song.
1. While in the Song Select window, select the folder whose
Song list you wish to save as a text file.
2. Select the Export Song List command from the page menu.
3. A dialog box will appear, asking you to select either a floppy
disk or the hard disk.
4. Select an option.
• If you select the floppy disk, insert a floppy disk in the
disk drive, and press OK to confirm.
• If you select the hard disk, just press OK to confirm.
Note: The text file will contain a list of "*.mid", "*.kar", ".mp3" and
"*.jbx" files only. Folders and different kinds of files will not be
included.
When saved, the text file will be named after the selected folder. For
example, a folder named "Dummy" will generate a "Dummy.txt"
file. If a file with the same name already exists on the floppy disk, it
will be overwritten without waiting for any confirmation. A file
containing the list of all valid files contained into the root of the disk
will generate a "Root.txt" file.
The list will include the progressive number assigned to each Song,
file names in MS-DOS format (8.3), the total number of files in the
list.
For the correct display and printing of the list on a personal com-
puter, use a fixed size (i.e., non-proportional) character in your text
editor.
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Song Select window