Yamaha A3000 Owner's Manual - Page 66

Saving and Reloading Your Data Saving and Reloading Your Data Like other samplers, the A3000 stores all new data into main memory only, and will lose all of this data when you switch off the power. You must therefore be sure to save all important data to disk before turning the A3000 off. Note that "new data" here refers to all newly recorded samples and sequences, and to all editing changes that you make to your samples and programs. In this example, we will save the data to a 2HD-type floppy disk. Formatting a Floppy Disk Floppy disks must be formatted before they can be used. The format operation sets the disk up so that it can be used for data storage and retrieval. You can format a new disk using the procedure described below, or you can use preformatted disks. Note that the A3000 supports the following two format types only. • MFF2DD (2DD disk type): MS-DOS 9-sector format 720KB • MF2HD (2HD disk type): MS-DOS 18-sector format 1.44MB Important The format operation erases any data already on the disk. Procedure 1. Select DISK mode, DISK function. If necessary, turn Knob 1 to select the Disk page. PLAY EDIT REC DISK UTILITY PROGRAM TRIM / LOOP RECORD SAMPLE MAP / OUT SETUP EASY EDIT FILTER METER PROGRAM SAMPLE SEQUENCE TOTAL EQ PANEL PLAY SEQUENCE EFFECT EG EFFECT VOLUME MASTER SETUP LFO EXT CTRL CONTROL MIDI / CTRL MONITOR DISK SYSTEM IMPORT MIDI w The screen now looks like this. 64 Chapter 2 Trying It Out