Akai S950 Operator's Manual page 62

DISK LOADING AND SAVING - THE DISK DRIVE
This is a very important part of the Akai 5950 as it allows you to load
sounds for playback and editing. It also enables you to save the fruits of
your labours onto disk. Because the-S950 will lose the contents of its memory
when power is switched off, we cannot stress the importance of saving your
work to disk. Also, it's a good idea to periodically save your work to disk
in the event of accidental power loss or unforeseen problems.
The 5950 allows you to use both double density (DD) and high density (HD)
disks. The basic 5950 without memory expansion allows you to store a complete
memory's worth onto one DD disk. If you have a memory expansion board fitted,
you will either have to spread the memory's contents over 2 or more DD disks.
This is quite an acceptable practice but it can become tedious when you have
to load as many as three disks to fill the 5950's memory. Better still would
be to use HD disks with their extra storage capacity, Of course, the best
method of storing sounds is to use a hard disk drive. Not only would this
allow you to store vast amounts of sounds but loading and saving samples
takes a fraction of the time of a normal floppy disk.
As well as being possible to load any disk from the large 5900 library, it is
also possible to load S1000 disks into the 5950 so that you can use the
fabulous library created for that instrument.
Insert a disk into the disk drive and press the DISK button and the first
page displayed reads as follows:
This page does two things. Firstly, in the top right corner (S####> it shows
whether an S900 or SI000 disk has been inserted and the bottom right hand of
the display shows that disks contents as a percentage-of the Sg50's memory
capacity.
Note 1: If a disk is not Inserted when you press DISK the display will show:
end ail red lights above the mode buttons will flash. To stop this, either
press another-of the mode buttons CI, e. PLAY, EDIT SAMPLE, EDIT PROGRAM or
whatever) or insert a disk end press DISK again.
Note 2: If an 51000 dish is inserted, the memory percentage display may show a
percentage value higher than 100x. This will indicate that the contents of the
disk are larger than the S950's internal memory capacity. You can 1 oed such a
disk but not ell the contents will 1 oed end when the 5950 Is full, the
display will show:
end the red lights above the mode buttons will flash. To exit this, simply
press PLAY where you can select the required programs.
>01 VOLUME #Slct,create Floppy
fHDcontl #Hdrivel
OOPS! Disk not mounted ................
OOPS! Memory sample space is full .....
50
S#x##
Rename Floppy 76%