Generalmusic 271221 Owner's Manual page 108

side of the display.
Following any of the above SAVE operations, after pressing EN-
TER, the right side of the display will show you what it finds on
the disk. At the top, you will see the MS-DOS icon. This is what
is known as the "root directory" of the disk and can ONLY be
used for saving Midi Files (SMF). Move the cursor to the dotted
line at the bottom of the list and press SAVE, (F3), followed by
ENTER.
You will be prompted to enter a BLOCK name.
Press ENTER when done and your new BLOCK will be created
on the disk.
Understanding BLOCKS
Whenever you save Equinox information onto a Floppy disk,
Hard Disk or any other type of storage media, the information
must be stored in something called a BLOCK. During any save
operation, before you can complete the procedure, you must first
tell the machine which BLOCK you want to save the information
into. In the majority of cases, you will probably decide to create
a new BLOCK and store your data there, (as we did in the previ-
ous example).
So what exactly is a BLOCK ?. The easiest way to think of a
BLOCK is as a replica of a RAMFILE. To use the simplest possi-
ble example, we could save everything in the instrument's mem-
ory, (Save All RAMFILE ), into a single BLOCK . When we want
to re-load this information in the future, we simply load the entire
BLOCK back into the RAMFILE, (the instrument's memory).
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