Using Commercial Sd Cards; Initializing Sd Cards - Roland eBand JS-8 Owner's Manual

Using Commercial SD Cards

Removing SD Cards
1. Press [POWER] to turn off the JS-8.
2. Push SD card inward, and then release your finger.
Remove an SD card only while the JS-8's power is switched off.
Removing an SD card with the JS-8 turned on may result in
corruption of data recorded on the SD card or damage to the
card itself.

Initializing SD Cards

1. Press [MENU]. 1. Press [MENU].
2. Select SYSTEM, and then press [ENTER].
3. Select SD CARD, and then press [ENTER].
4. Select FORMAT, and then press [ENTER].
5. When the message "Are you sure?" appears, press [ENTER].
Initializing the SD card causes the loss of all data on the card.
Song protection settings are also disregarded. Since there is
no way to recover data after initialization, be sure to back up
any important data before initializing.
If you want to copy data from one SD card to another freshly
initialized SD card, back up the first SD card ("Backing Up SD
Cards" (p. 36)), and then recover the backed-up data to the new
SD card ("Recovering Backed Up Data to SD Cards (RECOVERY)"
(p. 37)).
Speci cations for SD Cards Used with the
JS-8
The JS-8 supports SD cards meeting the following specifi-
cations.
• Maximum capacity: 32 GB
• SD/SDHC standard
Memory Con rmed as Functional with
the JS-8
Information on SD cards confirmed to work with the JS-8
can be found on the Roland website.
http://www.roland.com/
• The JS-8 supports SDHC memory cards.
• Some SD card types or SD cards from some manufactur-
ers may not record or play backproperly on the JS-8.
1. Push
2. Release your nger
About the SD card Write/
Protect Function ( Lock)
Write
Protect
The contents of the memory card can be protected by write
protecting it.
To write protect a card, slide the write protect switch on the
side of the memory card to the "LOCK" position. Unlock write
protect to delete data on the card.
SD Card Capacity and Recording Time
The table below shows the relationship between SD card
capacity and the approximate number of JS-8 songs you
can store on the card.
JS-8 Song MP3
1 GB (included card 30 songs
as shipped from the
factory)
1 GB (included card 50 songs
after initialization)
32 GB
1,700 songs 4,000 songs 600 songs
• Figures in the table above are based on a song length of
ve minutes.
• M P3 gures are based on data encoded at 128 kbps.
• W AV gures are based on stereo data with a sampling
rate of 44.1 kHz and quantization bit rate of 16 bits.
• The number of songs you can record may vary accord-
ing to the songs contained.
• Regardless of the amount of free space that is available,
the JS-8 can only store a maximum of 4,000 songs.
Convenient Functions
WAV
120 songs 10 songs
200 songs 20 songs
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