Roland EM-50 User Manual

Owner's Manual
ing a Song dump or updating the system), and that
recording new material with the option
means that the song in the EM-50/30's internal mem-
ory will be overwritten.
The EM-50 is equipped with a floppy drive that allows
you to save your new song to a 2HD or 2DD floppy
disk. The EM-30 does not have a floppy drive, but it
does allow you to transfer the Song data to an external
data storage device (or computer) via MIDI.
Here, we shall only look at the Song Save function. See
page 57 for the remaining Disk functions.
Note: Make it a habit to save your songs to disk (or via
MIDI) before switching off the EM-50/30, even though
that is unnecessary. Musicians are usually bad at house-
keeping and keep forgetting those seemingly insignificant
details...
Saving your Song to disk (EM-50 only)
1. Insert a blank disk into the drive.
If this is not the first song you save to disk, you may,
of course, use the disk you used for previous songs.
Every floppy contains a sguare tab that allows you to
“close” a little window. With the tab in that position,
you can save data to the disk. Do not forget to write-
enable the disk by closing this little window prior to
inserting the floppy disk.
WRITE
Write Protect tab 4 PROTECT
Formatting a disk
Before being able to save files to a disk, you need to
prepare a floppy disk. You are free to use 2DD or 2HD
disks. Please do not use the cheapest disks available
unless you are absolutely sure that they are reliable. It
would be a pity to lose a great recording because the
disk you saved it to has become unreadable.
If the floppy you are about to use is IBM PC format-
ted, there is no need to format it, though disk access is
faster with EM-50/30 formatted disks. Otherwise pro-
ceed as follows:
(For now, we'll assume that your disk is not yet for-
matted. If it is, skip to step (5)).
2. Use the MENU A V buttons to place the arrow
(4) next to the FORMAT entry (left side).
STYLE
MORPHING
INTRO ORIGINAL VARIATION — ENDING
MARKER A —— 8 D
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The display now responds with:
FORMAT
STYLE
MORPHING
ENTER
'The “ENT” message flashes, indicating that you need
to...
4. Press the [ENTER] button to format you disk.
Note: If you do not want to format your floppy, press
[CANCEL] to return to the previous message (“FOR-
MAT”).
Note: By formatting a disk, you erase all files it contains.
It would be a good idea to first check what it contains (c.g.
on your PC).
The value to the left of the Farmat.rra message now
counts down from “80” to “1” while the disk icon
flashes to indicate that the disk is being accessed.
When the disk is formatted, the message “Complete”
is briefly displayed.
Save operation
OK, so your disk is ready. Now we need to save the
song to it:
5. Use the MENU A V buttons to place the arrow
(44) next to the SAVE entry.
STYLE
MORPHING
CANCEL
uud
INTRO ORIGINAL VARIATION — ENDING
The "ENT" message flashes.
7. Use the MENU A Y buttons to select HUE Spa
and confirm by pressing [ENTER].

Roland EM-50 Specifications

General

Brand	Roland
Model	EM-50
Category	Electronic Keyboard
Language	English