User manual ENSONIQ EPS-16 SCSI

[. . . ] SCSI SP-1/ SP-2 Model SP-l/SP-2 - EPS/EPS-16 PLUS SCSI Interface Copyright @ 1990 ENSONIQ@ Corp 155 Great Valley Parkway Malvern, PA 19355 All Rights Reserved This manual is copyrighted and all rights are reserved by ENSONIQ Corp. . This document may not, in whole or in part, be copied. reproduced, translated, or reduced to any electronic medium or machine readable form without prior Mitten consent of ENSONIQ Corp. Is Covered This warranty covers all defects in material and workmanship for thirty days from the date of purchase from an Authorized ENSONIQ Dealer or Repair Station. [. . . ] To access files on other storage devices, you must select a new device using the CHANGE STORAGE DEVICE command. Make sure to press Enter to initiate the command and that the EPS-16 PLUS then briefly displays COMMAND COMPLETED. Now, whenever you press Load and one of the Page buttons, you will be seeing the files for that device. Another important distinction is that while SCSI drives are much faster and more convenient than floppies, they are also very sensitive and fragile. To be safe it is always wise to make sure that you have copies of important files on floppies as well as on your hard drive. If you assume that the hard drive could fail at any time, and take the necessary precaution of making backups of your files, then you will be prepared in case it ever does malfunction and you have to rebuild your drive. Refer to the section on backing up your drive for more information on this topic. EPS-16 Plus SCSI Manual Part 3 - Managing Disk Files File Types When you press the Load button and one of the Page buttons, Instrument, Seq-Song, System-MIDI, or Effects, the EPS-16 PLUS displays any files of the particular type indicated that are available on the currently selected storage device. For example, on the instrument Page, you will see it list of any instruments or Bank Files which are present The following chart shows which pages contain the different file types, and which indicator lights will be illuminated on the display for each type. EPS-16 PLUS File Types: MODE/Page LOAD/Instrument LOAD/Seq. Song LOAD/System. ~I. LOAD/Effects File Types Instruments Banks Sequences Songs Directories Macro Files System Exclusive Data Effect Files Indicators CMD + INST CMD + INST+ BANK LOAD + SEQ CMD +SEQ + SONG LOAD +SYSTEM LOAD + SYSTEM + MACRO LOAD + MIDI LOAD On the original EPS, the four Page buttons used in LOAD mode are Instrument, Seq. Song, MIDI and System. EPS File Types: MODE/Page LOAD/Instrument LOAD/Seq. Song LOAD/MIDI LOAD/System File Numbers File Types Instruments Banks Sequences Songs System Exclusive Data Directories Macro Files Indicators CMD + INST CMD +INST+BANK CMD + SEQ CMD +SEQ + SONG CMD +:MIDI LOAD + SYS1EM LOAD +SYS1EM + MACRO Associated with each file in a given directory is a number indicating its position in that directory. File numbers are not assigned or organized according to file type, but by the order in which they are saved. For example, file #1 may be an Instrument, file #2 may be a sequence, file #3 may be another Instrument, and so on, depending on the order in which they were created. There is a limit of thirty- eight (38) files that can be grouped together at once. When using floppy disks, this number is not as important, since it is rare to be able to fit the maximum number of files on one disk. SCSI drives, however, have the capacity to hold thousands of files, and it becomes desirable to organize the files into distinct groups called Directories. Page 12 Part 3 - Managing Disk Files EPS-16 Plus SCSI Manual Directories What is a Directory?A directory is a group of up to thirty-eight (38) files. These files can be any combination of file types. One possible fIle type is another directory, so you c create a directory within a directory (called a sub-directory). If you do not crea any sub-directories, you will be limited to the thirty-eight files of the Root (or Main) directory. [. . . ] You may choose to reformat the SCSI drive for use with the EPS-16 PLUS. Use caution as this will erase all previously saved data on the SCSI drive. DISK HAS BEEN CHANGED What to do: The disk (or cartridge) has been ejected from the drive since the last time the drive was accessed by the EPS-16 PLUS. Reinsert the disk or cartridge, press Load, then Instrument, and continue. [. . . ]