Roland R-8M Owner's Manual page 19

QDABOUT THE
R-8M
2-
Memory
Structure
Setup
area
Memory
area
The way
in
which
the
R
-
8M
operates
will
depend on
the settings of
various parameters. Settings for
these parameters arc
stored in
memory. The
memory
of the
R
-
8M
is
divided
into the following
areas;
setup area,
memory
area,
temporary
area,
and
instrument
area.
The
setup area contains parameters
that affect the overall
operation of the
R
-
8M,
such
as
MIDI
message
handling,
memory
protect,
and program change map.
Settings
in
the setup area
are
preserved
even
when
the
power
is
turned
off.
The
internal
memory
area contains
settings for
32
Patches and
16 Feel Patches. Settings
in the
memory
area are preserved even
when
the
power
is
turned
off.
Data
in
a
RAM
card
is also treated as
memory
area
data.
I
Temporary
area
Instrument area
The
temporary
area
is
where
Patch and
Feel Patch
setting are modified.
When
you
select a Patch, the
settings
from
the
memory
area will
be
read
into the
temporary
area.
Senings
in
the temporary
area are
preserved even
when
the
power
is
turned
off.
However,
when
you
select
another Patch or
Feel Patch,
the
settings will
change and
the previous
settings will be
lost.
An
instrument
is
the basic
waveform
data for a
drum
sound. The
R-8M
contains
68
different
instruments
in
the
instrument
area.
Instruments
in
a sound
ROM
card
are also treated as instrument
area data.
The
tone of each instrument can be modified
by sound parameter
settings, but
this
will
not
affect the
waveform
data
itself.
When
you
play the
R
-
8M,
the
sound
will
be produced
according
to the settings of
the setup area and
the current
settings
of
the temporary
area.
When
you
select
a
Patch, the
settings
of
that
Patch
will
be
read
into the
temporary
area.
The same
applies to Feel Patch.
*When we
say
tiiat
the
settings of the
memory
area
are read
into the
temporary
area,
we
mean
that the
settings of the
memory
area
are copied
into the
temporary
area.
It
is
important
to
remember
that
when
you modify Patch
or Feei
Patch
settings,
you
are modifying the
settings of the temporary
area, not of
the
memory
area.
Settings of the temporary
area are stored only temporarily,
and
will change
when
another Patch or Feel
Patch
is selected, so the previous
settings will be
lost.
If
you want
to
keep
the
settings
of
the temporary
area,
you must
use the
Write
operation
to store them
into
the
memory
area
(internal
or
RAM
card).
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