Saving Your Sequence To Disk - Yamaha SY99 Owner's Manual

You may be so pleased with the fruits of your recording efforts that you would like to keep it on hand for
playback in the future. Since all data is cleared from the SY99's sequencer memory when the power is
turned off, you will want to save your song on a floppy disk.
In fact, it is a good idea to save your work periodically during the recording process, to prevent the
accidental loss of valuable data should power to the SY99 be cut off for some reason.
Enter disk utility mode
Format a new disk
Select the type of data to
be saved
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Saving your sequence to disk

Press UTILITY to enter utility mode, make sure that a floppy disk of the correct
type (3.5" 2DD) is inserted into the disk drive, and press F4 (Disk) to select
disk utility mode.
Before a disk can be used it must be formatted to accept SY99 data. If the disk
currently inserted into the disk drive has never before been used to store SY99
data, you must format it. Formatting the disk will erase all the data on the disk.
Be careful not to accidentally format a disk which contains valuable data.
If the currently inserted disk has already been formatted, skip to the next
step.
To format the disk, select 04:Format Disk (JUMP #818). The following dis-
play will appear.
To execute the formatting operation press F8 (Go). You will be asked "Are you
sure". If you are, press YES.
While the disk is being formatted the display will show "xx% Formatted".
When the number reaches 100% the display will show "*** Completed ! ***".
Press EXIT to return to the Disk Utility job directory.
Select 03:Save To Disk and press ENTER. The disk drive will operate briefly,
and the following display will appear.