Selecting Rhythm From An External Media - Yamaha DDK-7 Owner's Manual

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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
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TO DEVICE terminal.
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Press the [PROGRAM] button on the panel.
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Press the [RHYTHM] or [NEW RHYTHM] in the display.
Press [FILE] at the top right in the display.
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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.
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The method for selecting a file is the same as that in the M.D.R. section. See
page 113 for more information.
Press the [LOAD] button, selected button again to load the
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pattern.
To edit the loaded pattern, go to the INPUT Page (page 164), then save your
created pattern(s) as a User Rhythm (page 179).
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.