Files And Folders - Roland MV-8800 Workshop

Files and Folders

Everything you do on the MV-8800 gets saved on its hard drive as a "file. " (On
computers, these are also called "documents. " ) Each sample is a file, each
project is a file, each patch, and so on. As you can imagine, it's easy to wind
up with dozens, hundreds, even thousands, of files on a hard drive.
To help keep all of these bazillion files organized—and to allow you to
find what you're looking for when you want to load something into the
MV-8800—files are stored in groups of files called "folders. "
Each folder has a sensible name that tells you what's inside it,
and has a folder icon to the left of its name onscreen to make it
easy for you to tell a folder from a file.
The folder idea comes from computer desktops, which are modeled
on real-world office desktops. The idea is that when you want to put
away a bunch of documents, you put them in folders, just like in a
real office.
Sometimes a folder contains a bunch of other folders that contain similar
files, as we'll see. Keeping the folders themselves organized makes the job
of finding things much easier.
The main idea is that folders help you organize things in such a way that you
don't have to remember where anything is—you can just go looking, and
the folder names guide you to the file you want.
CD-ROMs and floppy disks may also use folders for keeping their files
organized. Getting around on them is exactly the same as getting
around on your MV-8800's hard drive.
Let's say you're looking for a synth patch to load from the
MV-8800's hard drive. You'd start by looking at a list of the hard drive's main
folders. Whaddya know? There's a folder there called "PATCHES. "
Folder
Open up the PATCHES folder, and there's a SYNTH folder.
icon
Open that up, and there you are: a list of synth patches.
The name
of the folder
you're now
looking inside.