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The Floppy Disk Drive
STORING W-5000 DATA ON DISK
REGISTRATIONS
As explained in Chapter 5, General Presets, all the panel settings that define the sound of the instrument can
be collected together into a 'registration' and assigned to a General Preset piston ([1]-[8]) for instant recall.
There are two banks of these presets, selectable via the [MEMORY] button. One final registration can be
assigned to the [CANCEL] button giving a total of 17 registrations.
When there is no disk in the drive, these seventeen registrations are all you have access to. They are stored in
various 'files' in the internal, non-volatile memory, so that they will be available whenever the W-5000 is
turned on. When you save a registration (by holding the [SET] button and pressing one of the numbered
buttons or the [CANCEL] button), one of these files in the non-volatile memory is overwritten with new
data.
If you insert a disk into the drive, the W-5000's storage space for registrations is vastly expanded. Each set of
sixteen piston registrations (two banks of eight) constitutes a 'folder', which means that the internal, non-
volatile memory consists of a single folder. A floppy disk, however, can contain eight such folders, for a
total of 128 registrations.
SAVING A FOLDER
The easiest way to create a folder on a disk is to copy the entire folder from the internal, non-volatile
memory. With a disk in the drive, simply hold both [SET] and [MEMORY], and press one of the numbered
pistons ([1]-[8]). This causes all sixteen registrations assigned to the buttons to be written to the disk folder.
This process may take half a minute or so and the [SET] LED goes out when it is complete. Once you've
done this, the folder you've stored becomes the 'current folder'. This means that whenever you store an
individual piston registration (by holding [SET] and pressing a button ([1]-[8])) it is written to the folder on
the floppy disk (not to internal memory). (This takes a few seconds, unlike writing to the internal folder
which is nearly instantaneous.)
LOADING A FOLDER
Once you have a disk that contains one or more folders, you can load an entire folder in a single operation.
Simply hold [MEMORY] and press one of the numbered pistons ([1]-[8]). This causes all sixteen registration
files to be loaded from that disk folder and assigned to the General Preset buttons. It also makes the folder
the 'current folder' for all subsequent [SET] operations. If you attempt this operation and the disk doesn't
contain the specified folder (or there is no disk in the drive), the W-5000 will inform you.
ACCESSING THE INTERNAL FOLDER
The functions for loading and saving an entire folder also apply to the internal folder, using the [CANCEL]
button instead of a numbered button. That is, you can store all your registrations in the internal folder (and
select the internal folder) by holding [SET] and [MEMORY] and pressing [CANCEL]; and you can load all
of your registrations from the internal folder by holding [MEMORY] and pressing [CANCEL].
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