Disk Functions; Loading User Programs From Disk - Roland EXR-46 OR Manuel D'utilisation

The display shows the error message "No Cable" to sig-
nal that USB communication is impossible.
Note: If you do not connect a USB cable within 15 seconds, the
EXR-46 OR returns to its normal mode.
(4) Connect the EXR-46 OR's USB port to a free USB port of
your computer using the supplied cable.
The icon appears and the display shows
"PC<->EXR".
If you prefer to use another cable, choose one with the cor-
rect USB jack types: a "square" one ("type B") for the
EXR-46 OR and probably a "flat" one (type "A") for your com-
puter).
Note: Do not connect the EXR-46 OR to a USB hub. Always con-
nect it directly to your computer.
Note: Never switch off the EXR-46 OR while the "Writing"
message is displayed, because doing so would damage all data in
the EXR-46 OR's Flash area. (See "InitFLSH (Flash initialization)"
(p. 44) if you need to repair the Flash area after an erroneous
operation.)
For all operating systems:
Note: If you press the [USB] button without connecting the USB
cable, the display shows the error message "No Cable" to
signal that USB communication is impossible. Connect a cable to
cause this message to disappear.
(5) Open the "My Computer" window (Windows) and check
whether your computer has found an "EXR_DRV" (or just
"Removable Disk").
(6) Open that drive by double-clicking on its icon.
(7) Open either the "Style", "UserPrg" or "Song" folder.
This depends on whether you want to delete/rename/add
Music Styles or Standard MIDI Files.
(8) Do one of the following:
• Copy the desired Music Styles from the "Style" folder to your
computer's hard disk using drag & drop.
• Copy the desired songs from the "Song" folder to your com-
puter's hard disk using drag & drop.
• Copy the desired User Program sets from the "UserPrg"
folder to your computer's hard disk using drag & drop.
• Copy the desired Music Styles from your computer's hard
disk to the "Style" folder using drag & drop. (See also the
explanation below step (10).)
• Copy the desired songs from your computer's hard disk to
the "Song" folder using drag & drop.
• Copy the desired User Program sets from your computer's
hard disk to the "UserPrg" folder using drag & drop.
• Rename the desired files in the "Style", "UserPrg" or "Song"
folder.
• Delete the files you no longer need.
Note: While the "PC<->EXR" message is displayed, all of the
EXR-46 OR's buttons and keys are blocked.
(9) To disconnect the EXR-46 OR from your computer:
• Macintosh: Drag the "EXR_DRV" (or "Removable Disk") icon
to the trash.
—OR—
• Windows: Click on the removal icon on the task bar. Wait
until a drop-down menu appears and select the entry that
says something to the effect of "Stop USB disk EXR_DRV".
You should now see a window that says something to the
effect of "The USB device XX can now be safely removed
from the system". Click on the [OK] button.
—THEN—
• Disconnect the USB cable from your computer and the
EXR-46 OR.
(10) Press the [USB] button again.
The display shows the "Sure?" message.
(11) Press [YES/+] (the icon disappears).
(Press [NO/–] to remain in USB mode.)
If you copied Music Styles from your computer to the Flash
area, the display now shows "Wait... Converting
Styles" to indicate that files with the extension ".STL"
are converted to the EXR-46 OR's Music Style format
(".STH").
Note that this conversion is only necessary for Music Styles
in the EXR-46 OR's Flash area that do not yet have the ".STH"
extension.
Note: This operation adds a few bytes to every converted Music
Style. In rare circumstances (when the Flash area is nearly full),
this may lead to the impossibility to convert all Styles that still
have the extension ".STL". The EXR-46 OR then displays the
"MemFull" message to signal that the conversion was
aborted before reaching the last ".STL" file. All Styles up to that
point have been converted, though, and can be used.

Disk functions

The EXR-46 OR's Disk functions allow you to save the Recorder
Song in the USER SNG memory to disk, to save and load
your files to and from disk, to delete files on a floppy disk, and
to format disks.
Though you can use 2DD or 2HD floppies, 2HD disks have twice
the capacity of 2DD disks, so use 2HDs whenever you can.
Whenever the disk drive writes data to or reads data from disk,
the Disk icon ( ) flashes in the display. Do not remove
the floppy disk while this icon is displayed as that may
damage both the disk drive and the disk (so that it becomes
unreadable).

Loading User Programs from disk

This load function is called LOAD Upr. It allows you to trans-
fer a set of 200 User Programs (i.e. for all memories) to the
EXR-46 OR's internal memory. This will overwrite the User Pro-
grams that currently reside in the internal memories.
Note: If you wish to use the User Programs in the internal memory
at a later stage, first save them to disk before proceeding. See p. 54.
Note: The User Program set data also contain the TONE button
assignments (page 30). After loading a User Program set, the eight
TONE buttons may therefore select other sounds than before.
(1) Insert a disk into the drive.
(2) Press [DISK] to select the Disk mode.
DISK
The "LOAD Upr" function is already selected, so there is
nothing else you need to do. (Otherwise, use FAMILY [√][®] to
select this parameter.)
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