Front Panel - Rodgers MR-200 Owner's Manual

Song Player/Recorder
• You can rearrange your own and someone
else's recordings by selecting different
sounds for the recorded parts and by adding
more parts.
• Your recordings always remain "up-to-date".
So if you decide to buy another instrument,
you can use its sound generator for playing
back your pieces – without recording them
again, but with the sounds of your new
instrument.

Front panel

A Disk drive
This is where you need to insert the floppy
disk that contains the songs you wish to play
back, or where you wish to save a song you
have recorded. You can use 2DD (720k) and
2HD (1.44MB) disks.
The MR-200 "forgets" the data you record or play
back when you switch it off. Be sure to save your
own songs internally or to a floppy disk beforehand.
B [POWER] button
Press this button to switch the MR-200 on
or off. Switching the MR-200 on or off also
means that the external sound module
whose adapter socket you connect to the
MR-200's DC OUT socket will be switched
on or off.
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• A MIDI sequence is a lot smaller than any
(MP3) digital audio file. One floppy disk
can hold at least 20 MIDI files (sometimes a
lot more), while it is barely enough for one
MP3 audio file of the same length.
C BEAT indicator
This LED flashes to indicate the currently
selected tempo: green while the MR-200 is
not running, and red on the first beat/green
on the other beats during playback or
recording. This can be either the tempo you
set, or the tempo of the last Standard MIDI
File you play back.
D [METRONOME] button
Press this button to activate or switch off the
MR-200's metronome. After pressing this
button, you can also change the metro-
nome's time signature.