Saving Gem Songs And Midifiles - GEM genesys ensemble Owner's Manual

Saving GEM Songs and Midifiles

When you save a song that you’ve created on the Genesys
Ensemble, it will normally be saved as a GEM song. The GEM
song format retains all of your editing, plus the 8 song per-
formances that you made to go with your song. If you plan to
only use the songs you create for playback on the Genesys
Ensemble then you only ever need to save them in GEM for-
mat, (using the normal procedure described in the DISK chap-
ter). Sometimes, however, you might want to save your songs
as midifiles so that they can be played on other brands of
keyboards, used on a computer or distributed via the internet.
If you wish to save a song as a midifile, it has to comply with
certain rules. First, it cannot contain more than 16 tracks.
Secondly, the midifile format will only save the sounds, vol-
umes and effect information along with your song. The song
performances and editing functions in EDIT PARTS and PED-
ALS & WHEELS should not be used as these will be disre-
garded when you save your song as a midifile. Once your
song is prepared, go to the DISK menu, select RAM and
locate your song in memory.
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GEM Songs & MIDI Files
Now press SAVE (F2) and then
ENTER. So far, the procedure
we’ve used is exactly the same
as for saving a GEM song. As
we discussed earlier, your song
would normally be saved as a
GEM song at this point.
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