Saving Performance Data On A Zip Disk (Song Copy); Saving On A Single Disk (Playable) - Roland VXpanded VS-880 Owner's Manual

Chapter 6 Use with a Zip drive
Saving performance data
on a Zip disk (Song Copy)
The VS-880 allows you to copy song data to another disk
drive. By connecting a magneto-optical disk drive or a
removable hard disk drive (hereafter referred to as remov-
able disk drives) to the VS-880 and copying song data to
that disk, you can backup song data.
The VS-880 also allows you to backup song data to a DAT
recorder. However when the time required to perform the
backup and questions of reliability are considered, it is bet-
ter to use a removable disk drive. Roland recommends that
you use this method to make your backups.
If you are using a removable disk drive as a place to backup
song data, you may use a slower drive that is not suitable
for song recording or playback.

Saving on a single disk (Playable)

Normally you will use this method to copy song data. With
this method, even if song data already exists in the copy
destination disk drive, the newly copied song will be added
to the data.
1. When copying song data to an external disk drive, con-
nect the disk drive as explained in "Connecting a disk
drive" (p.130).
2. Press [SONG], use PARAMETER [
the "SNG Song Copy" display, and press [YES].
If you have connected a removable disk drive, the dis-
play will indicate ÒSNG CpyMode=.Ó Use the
TIME/VALUE dial to set this to ÒPlayable.Ó
3. Press PARAMETER [
CpyTarget=" display, and use the TIME/VALUE dial to
select the song that you wish to copy.
If you wish to copy the currently selected song, select
Ò1 Song.Ó To copy all songs from the current drive,
select ÒAll.Ó
CONDITION MARKER#
INPUT TRACK
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] to get the "SNG
TIME TIME
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0
4
1 1 2 2
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48
AUX MASTER
4. Press PARAMETER [
Dest.Drive=" display, and use the TIME/VALUE dial to
select the copy destination disk drive.
The internal hard disk will be shown as ÒIDE,Ó and
external disk drives will be shown as ÒSC0ÐSC7.Ó The
number following each disk drive indicates the parti-
tion number.
CONDITION MARKER#
INPUT TRACK
5. Press [YES], and "SNG Copy to
(" : " indicates the disk drive and partition number
of the copy destination). If it is OK to copy the data,
press [YES] twice. To cancel the operation, press [NO].
If ÒALLÓ is specified as the target, a confirmation mes-
sage will ask you whether you want to initialize the
copy destination disk drive. If you wish to initialize the
copy destination disk drive and copy the song data,
press [YES]. In this case, all song data that had been
saved on the copy destination disk drive will be lost. If
you wish to copy without initializing, press [NO].
When the copy operation is successfully completed,
you will return to Play condition.
< If the display indicates "Disk Memory Full" >
If this message appears during copying, the copy opera-
tion has been halted either because the disk drive has
insufficient free space, or the copy destination disk drive
would contain more than 200 songs (the maximum num-
ber of songs). However any song data which has been
completely copied before this message appeared will still
be usable.
Playable
Normally you will use this method to copy song data. If
song data is copied using this method, you can specify the
copy destination disk drive as the current drive, and direct-
ly perform operations such playback or undoing a record-
ing.
] to get the "SNG
TIME TIME
dB
0
4
1 1 2 2
24
48
AUX MASTER
: " will appear