Roland VS-1680 Service Notes page 12

VS-1680
10. If you wish to save the current song, press [YES]; if not,
then press [NO].
If you have selected a demo song, then press [NO].
11. After the initialization is completed correctly, the VS-1680
restarts automatically, and you are returned to Play
condition.
* Be aware that initializing a drive requires some time. This is
not a malfunction.
For example, when physical formatting is turned on, the time
required to format one Zip disk is approximately 10 minutes.
The progress of initialization will be shown in the display.
Be sure not to turn the power off until initialization is complete.
SAVING PERFORMANCE DATA TO A ZIP DRIVE (Song Copy)
There are two ways to carry out the Song Copy procedure.
Select the method you will use based on the amount of free
space on the destination disk (100 MB for Zip disks).
The amount of memory used on the disk is shown in the display.
Playable: Use this method to copy songs that use
relatively little data onto disks with sufficient
memory to hold them.
If the destination drive or disk already has song
data saved on it, then you can copy additional
songs that will fit within the remaining free
space.
Archive: Use this method to copy songs that are too large
to be saved on a single disk.
The song data is converted into a data format
specifically for saving (archive format), and is
copied onto multiple disks according to the free
space on the disks.
This means that it will not be possible to directly
play back the song data.
If you wish to play back song data copied in
archive format, you will need to reload the
archive data into the current drive using the
appropriate procedure.
Furthermore, song data cannot be copied onto
disks that already have songs recorded on them.
Saving a Song to a Single Disk (Playable)
Save a playable copy of a song on the VS-1680's internal hard
disk to a Zip drive which is set to SCSI ID Number 5.
1. Select the disk containing the source song you want to
copy as the current drive.
2. Press [PLAY(DISPLAY)]
3. Hold down [SHIFT] and press [F1 (SONG)]
The Song menu icon appears in the display.
4. Press [F1 (CP PL)]. If "CP PL" does not appear in [F1],
first press [PAGE] until "CP PL" is displayed, then press
[F1 (CP PL)].
5. Press [<] and [>] to move the cursor to "Source Song."
6. Use the TIME/VALUE dial to move the cursor to the song
you want to copy and press [F3 (MARK)]. By pressing [F2
(ALL)], you can place and remove Markers from all of the
songs.
In addition, you can press [F1 (SelSg)] to display a
directory of the songs.
At this point, after you have placed a Marker at the song
you want, press [F1 (Back)].
7. Press [>] to move the cursor to "Destination Drive."
8. Use the TIME/VALUE dial to select the destination drive
and partition.
You can press [F5 (SelDr)] to display a directory of drives.
At this point, use [ ], [v], [<], and [>] to select the
^
destination drive, and select the destination partition with
the TIME/VALUE dial.
Once you have selected the destination drive, press [F1
(Back)].
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9. If the source and destination drives are different, press [v].
Move the cursor to "Erase All Songs" with the
TIME/VALUE dial.
* Erase All Songs
When this is set to "On," the copy procedure is carried
out after the destination drive is initialized.
If you want to perform the copy procedure leaving songs
already saved in the destination drive as they are, then
set this to "Off."
10. Press [F4 (Exec)].
A message asking if you want to continue appears in the
display.
11. Press [YES].
"STORE Current?" (Store the current song?) appears in
the display.
12. If you wish to save the current song, press [YES]; if not,
then press [NO].
If you have selected a demo song, then press [NO].
13. When copy is completed, the Song menu icon appears in
the display.
Press [PLAY (DISPLAY)].
Return to Play condition.
NOTE: If "Disk Memory Full" Appears in the Display
This indicates that the destination disk has insufficient
free space, or that the number of songs on the disk
has exceeded the maximum number (200 songs) that
can be stored on the disk, and that the copy
procedure was canceled.
However, you can still use the song data copied up to
that point.
To Load Data from Disks
Use the following procedure to take playable songs that have
been copied to Zip disks and load them onto the VS-1680's
hard disk.
Switch the current drive to Zip drive (Drive Select).
Then perform playable copy from Zip drive to the internal hard
disk drive.
* The original song is not overwritten by performing these
procedures if the original song that copied from the internal
hard disk to Zip disk is not erased from the internal hard disk.
In that case, a new song which has the same name as the
original one will be create in an available earliest song
number.
1. Confirm both power of Zip drive and VS-1680 are turned
on.
2. Insert the disk containing the song you want to load into
the Zip drive.
3. Press [PLAY (DISPLAY)].
4. While pressing [SHIFT] press [F6 (UTILITY)]. The utility
menu icon is appeared on the display.
5. Press [F4 (DrSel)]. If "DrSel" does not appear on [F4], first
press [PAGE] to show "DrSel" then press [F4 (DrSel)].
Table of the current connected drive will be shown on the
display.
6. To move cursor, press [ ], [v], [<] or [>]. Select the drive
^
you wish to switch.
To select the partition which you wish to switch, rotate the
TIME/VALUE dial.
At this time, the function buttons works as described below.
[F3 (Info)] : Indicate the drive information.
[F4 (Exec)] : Execute drive select.
[F6 (EXIT)] : Exit from the menu.
7. After select drive/partition press [F4 (Exec)].
8. A confirming message is appeared on the display. Press
[YES].
9. "STORE Current?" (Save the current song?) message is
appeared on the display.
If you wish to save the current song press [YES], if not
press [NO].
When the demo song is selected press [NO].
10. When the current drive is switched song menu icon is
displayed.
Press [PLAY (DISPLAY)].
Return to play condition.
11. Make a playable copy of the song from the Zip disk onto
the VS-1680's hard disk, as described in "Saving a Song to
a Single Disk."
Sep, 1998