Yamaha PSR-550 Owner's Manual - Page 57

Disk Operations Built into the PSR-550 is a disk drive. Simply insert a floppy disk and you've got access to a wide variety of convenient functions, such as recording and playback of User songs (page 78), as well as saving and loading of User styles (page 96), User pads (page 92) and Registration Memory data (page 54). You can save any number of User styles, pads and registration data to floppy disks, create your own song libraries or find many other ways to make playing and using the PSR-550 more efficient. q The PSR-550 is capable of playing back songs contained on the included data disk, as well as commercially available song data in the following formats, indicated by the corresponding logos (page 9): You can play back song files collected on these disks using the voices defined in the GM standard. You can play back songs using the XG format, an extension of the GM standardthat allows for much higher sound quality. You can play back song files collected on these disks using the voices defined in Yamaha's DOC format. q The PSR-550 is compatible with style data contained on the included data disk, as well as commercially available disk styles in the following format, indicated by the corresponding logo (page 9): You can load and play with the style files collected on these disks. q You can record your own performances to User songs and play them back (page 78). User Song Record (Direct save) Playback (Direct read) Floppy Disk Maximum of 60 files can be saved. q The PSR-550 features special User style, User pad and Registration Memory functions. The data recorded with these functions can also be saved to disk individually or in any combination. Likewise, data (files) saved to disks can be loaded individually or in any combination to the PSR-550. User Style User Pad Registration Memory Save Save or load individually or gathered together Load Floppy Disk Up to 32 All type files (page 61) can be recorded on a 2HD disk. Up to 13 All type files can be recorded on a 2DD disk. User data compatible with the PSR-550 is indicated in the chart below. q Data that can be Saved or Loaded with the PSR-550 Data Type Extension Save User song (Standard MIDI format0) .MID - User style (Style file format) .USR O User pad .USR O Registration Memory .USR O Load - O O O q Other disk functions include: • Format page 60 • Song Copy page 64 • Delete page 67 • Refer to page 9 for more details on the logos. • It may not be possible to record the full 60 files to a disk, depending on the length of the recorded files. • The maximum number of files may vary according to the type and volume of the saved files (page 61). • When saving data, use a floppy disk formatted on the PSR-550. • The three letters following the file name (after the period) are referred to as a file "extension". The extension indicates the type of file. • Since the user songs are directly recorded to the disk as you play during recording and read from the disk during playback, the Save/ Load functions are not available. The Copy and Delete File operations related to the user songs can be executed. 57 55