Transferring All Scenes - Tascam 688 Midistudio Owner's Manual

Transferring All Scenes
[ SAVING ALL SCfNES TO DATA TAPE
When you've invested a lot of time in 99 scenes, you don't
want them to disappear by accident or design. The TAPE
SAVE feature of the 688 allows you to take all the scene
data in the 688's memory banks and save it onto standard
cassette tape. It serves as a backup copy. or long-term
storage area.
If you have a MIDI data filer or MIDI devices that have
System Exclusive record capability and want to save
scenes to those. see the paragraphs with the corre-
sponding headino,
1. Insert a blank cassette into the tape well.
2. Press the RECORD FUNCTION switch for Track 8. The
light will begin to blink.
3. Press PLAY and RECORD. The record lights will turn
solid.
4. Tum the SYNC switch to the SCENE DATA position.
5. Press the SAVE/LOAD key until "SAVE" appears under
the scene number display. Thoro will be a pause; you
will see signal on the GRP 8 meter. The scene number
will then begin to count upwards from 01 to 99; this
takes a few minutes.
6.
When the saving is complete, the tape will automati-
cally stop. Take the cassette out of the well and store it
in a safe place. You may want to punch out the record
protect tabs of the cassette so the data cannot be
accidentally erased.
[LOADING ALL SCENES FROM DATA TAPE
This is the procedure to follow when you want to replace
the entire memory contents of the 688 with what's on a
data tapa. There's no safe way to replace only some of
the scene data and not others.
1. Insert the data cassette into the tape well.
2. Cue up the tape. Listen to track 8; you'll hear a solid
tone then a warbling tone. The warbling tone Is the
beginning of the data; cue the tape up a few seconds
before that begins.
3. Tum the SYNC switch to the SCENE DATA J)O$ition.
4. Press the SAVE/LOAD key until "LOAD" appears
under the
scene
number display.
5. Press PLAY. When the warbling tone starts, the scene
number will begin to count upwards from 01 to
99;
this
takes a few minutes.
6.
When loading is complete. the tape will automatically
stop. You
wilt
find that the scene contents are now
what was stored on tape.
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SAVING ALL SCENES TO MIDI DATA FILER OR
PROPERLY EQUIPPED MIDI DEVICE
1. Connect the 68S's MIDI OUT to your MIDI filer's MIDI
IN.
2. Press SCENE/MIDI CH so the MIDI CH Indicator is
showing. If the two.digit display says "of", press UP or
DOWN until the display reads "on" or any of the 16
MIDI channels. Get your MIDI data filer ready to re-
ceive System Exclusive data. following the procedure
in its manual.
3. Tum the SYNC switch to the SCENE DATA position.
4. Press the LOAD/SAVE key until "LOAD" appears
under the Beene number display.
5. Hold the STORE/COPY key and pre.. the LOAD/SAVE
key again; "LOAD" will change to "SAVE". There will be
a pause as the scene data is sent out
(8S
MIDI exclusive
messagesl to the MIDI filer.
6. When savIng is through, "SAVe" will switch back to
"LOAD". Operate the filer to save the received data a.
per instructions in the manual for your filer.
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LOADING ALL SCENE DATA FROM MIDI ALER
1. Connect the 688's MIDI IN to the MIDI filer's MIDI OUT.
2. Set the MIDI channel of the 688 to match the deta
filer's send channel, and have the filer enter Bulk Out
Ready mode.
3. Tum the SYNC switch to the SCENE DATA position.
4. Press
the
LOAD/SAVE key until "LOAD" appears
under the scene number display.
5. Have the filter start sending out the scene data. The
scene number will begIn to count upwards from 01 to
99; this takes
8
few seconds.
6. When loading is through, the scene number "99" will
blink. You will find that the scene contents are now
what was 610red on MIDI filer.
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RESTORING FACTORY PRESETS
CAUTION: If you have customized any ecenea, 01 thru
99, they will 8U be erased 88 you restore the praseta, If
you want, save them first on
tape
or MIDI filer a. per
instructions above.
If you want to restore all the factory prneta 01-12, hold
CLEAR and tum the power on. You'll find ell 01-12
pre-
lets recovered at once. You cannot restore individual
presets.