Saving Your Song; Naming Your Song (Song Name); Writing Your Song - Roland DR-880 Owner's Manual

Saving your song

If you want to save a song you recorded or
edited, you must "Write" it as a user song.
If you re-select the song or turn off the power before
executing the Write procedure, your song data will be
lost.

Naming your song (Song Name)

You can give your song a name of up to fourteen
characters.
1. In the song edit screen, move the cursor
to the "NAME" icon and press [ENTER].
The song name edit screen appears.
fig.03-100d
2. Move the cursor to the location at which
you want to input a character, and use the
VALUE dial to select the desired
character.
Button operations
[CURSOR]
Move the cursor.
[CURSOR]
Switch from lowercase to
[CURSOR]
uppercase characters.
Switch from uppercase to
[CURSOR]
lowercase characters.
[SHIFT]+
Insert a space at the cursor
location.
[CURSOR]
Delete the character at the cur-
[SHIFT]+
sor location, and shift subse-
[CURSOR]
quent characters to the left.
3. When you've finished inputting the name,
press [EXIT].
4. Then continue to "Writing your song."

Writing your song

1. In the song edit menu screen, move the
cursor to the "WRITE" icon and press
[ENTER].
The song write screen appears.
fig.03-110d
2. Use the VALUE dial to select the user
song number into which you want to write
your song.
3. To write your song into memory, press
[ENTER]. If you decide to cancel, press
[EXIT].
The message "Now writing..." will appear,
and the song will be saved.
When the song have been saved, the message
will disappear.
* Do not turn off the power while the message is displayed.
Your data may be damaged if you do so.
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