Basic Operation - Korg DSS-1 Owner's Manual

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Basic O peration-
1 This lets you select sound patches from the disk
and play them.
■ The internal memory of the DSS-1 can hold up to 32
sound patch programs at once. During play, you se­
lect from among these 32 sounds, changing from one
to another as you like.
Before play, you must load a set of 32 sound patch
programs from disk into memory. Each of these sets
is called a "system."
■ One floppy disk can hold four "system s" of 32
sounds each. (That means that you can have 4 x 32
= 128 patches per disk.)
To load data from disk to internal memory, you must
choose which one of these four systems to load.
■ "G E T S Y S T E M " is the name of the procedure that
you use to select and load one of these four systems
from a particular disk to internal memory.
"P R O G R A M S E L E C T " is the name of the procedure
used to select and use one of the 32 sound patch pro­
grams from the system that is currently in memory,
■ Therefore, to play a sound that is on disk, you first
choose the disk, then you choose a system and get it
(load it) from disk to internal memory. Finally you se­
lect a program from among the 32 in the loaded sys­
tem.
2 M odes used for G E T S Y S T E M and P R O G R A M
S E L E C T
■ The G E T S Y S T E M procedure can be performed
when the DSS-1 is in the S Y S T E M mode. When the
S Y S T E M mode is selected, the S Y S T E M key L E D il­
luminates.
(When the DSS-1 power is turned on, the S Y S T E M
mode is selected automatically as the default mode.)
■ The P R O G R A M S E L E C T procedure is performed in
the P L A Y mode. The DSS-1 is in the P L A Y mode
when none of the mode selector key L E D s are on.
To switch to the play mode, press the mode selector
key which is currently selected, so that its L E D goes
out. (The play mode is selected when the eight
modes listed on the front panel are all cancelled.)
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G E T S Y S T E M : Lets you choose one ot the four systems on a disk
and load it to memory,
D SS-1 M EM O R Y :
P R O G R A M S E L E C T : Lets you select one of the 32 patches
(tone color programs) from memory.
• When S Y S T E M mode Is selected.
S Y S T E M
• When play mode is selected.
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