Save Song Window - Korg pa 500 User Manual

198 Sequencer operating mode

Save Song window

Save Song window
The recorded Song is contained in RAM, and is lost when turn-
ing the instrument off. The Song is also lost when you over-
write it in Record mode, or if you confirm the warning
message when switching to the Style Play or Song Play mode.
You must save to a card any Song you wish to preserve.
This window appears when you select the "Save Song" command
from the page menu.
Press EXIT to exit from this page and go back to the main page
of the Sequencer operating mode without saving the Song.
Song path
Storage device
Song path
This line shows the path of the location where you are saving the
Song.
Directory
This is the list of the selected device's content.
File status
Type of the File or folder
file or folder name
Use the scrollbar to scroll the list items.
As an alternative, you can select one of the items, and use the
TEMPO/VALUE dial to scroll.
Directory
File size
Modification
date
Storage device
Use this pop-up menu to re-select the card and deselect every-
thing.
Device Type
CARD Secure Digital (SD) or MultiMedia (MMC) memory
card.
The actual name (label) of the device may appear within square
brackets ([]).
Open
Opens the selected folder (item whose icon looks like this:
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 Sequencer. This
is useful to quickly return to it, after you have browsed through
long directories and "dug" into different folders.
Save
Press this button to open the Save Song dialog box, and save the
Song to the current directory.
• If no file has been selected in the display, prior to pressing Save,
the "NewSong" default name will be automatically assigned to
the Song.
Note: If a file is selected, just touch the card name to deselect it.
• If a file has been selected in the display, prior to pressing Save,
the name of the selected file will be automatically assigned to the
Song.
In any of the above situations, press the
to edit the Song name.
Warning: If a file with the same name is already in the current
directory, a message will warn you. If you confirm, the existing file
will be overwritten. Select a file before saving only if you want to
overwrite it (i.e., in case you are saving changes to an existing file).
Empty measure at the beginning of the
Standard MIDI File
When saving a Song as an SMF, an empty measure is automati-
cally inserted to the beginning of the Song. This measure con-
tains various Song initialization parameters.
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(Text Edit) button