9 - Disk Menu

Bank Utilities

Bank

The Bank is a set of up to 1000 presets which can be loaded into and saved to disk from internal memory (RAM). When you save to disk, that collection of presets, samples and sequences is a bank. Banks can be constructed as large as the memory in your Emulator will allow (64 MB or 128 MB).

Bank Utilities

The Bank Utilities menu contains several additional functions. Pressing the Utils function key (F1) from the bank browser enables a second row of function keys.

Delete: Allows you to delete an unwanted bank.

Name: Allows you to name or rename the selected bank.

Find: Allows you to search the disk for a particular bank.

Delete

This utility allows you to delete an entire bank.

v To Delete a Bank:

1.From the Bank Browser, select the bank you wish to delete using the cursor keys, INC/DEC keys or the Data Entry Control.

2.Press the Utilities function key (F1).

3.Press the Delete function key (F3). A pop-up window appears asking you if you want to delete the bank.

4.Press OK (F6) to delete the bank or Cancel (F1) to cancel the operation.

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Name

Name

This utility allows you to rename a bank.

v To Name a Bank:

1.From the Bank Browser, select the bank you wish to rename using the cursor keys, INC/DEC keys or the Data Entry Control.

2.Press the Utilities function key (F1).

3.Press the Name function key (F4). A pop-up window appears prompting you to name the bank.

4.Change the name of the bank. Letters can be selected using the numeric pad Data Entry Control, INC/DEC keys and cursor keys, or using an ASCII keyboard.

5.Press OK (F6) to confirm the new name or Cancel (F1) to cancel the operation.

Find…

This utility searches your disk library for a particular pattern of letters and numbers (a search string). If it finds the string anywhere in the name, the bank will be selected. Use the Find utility again to find additional matching items.

v To Find:

1.From the Bank Browser, press the Utilities function key (F1).

2.Press the Find function key (F6). The screen shown below appears.

3.Select the type of item (folder, bank, preset, sample or sequence) you wish to search for. If you have an idea of where the item is located, you can narrow the search by inputting additional data on the drive, folder or bank. Selecting “All” tells EOS to search everything.

4.Press the String function key (F4), and enter the search string. Letters can be selected using the numeric pad, Data Entry Control, INC/DEC keys and cursor keys, or using an ASCII keyboard.

5.Press the Search function key (F6) to search for the item or Cancel (F1) to cancel the operation.

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Load Bank

_ A “Memory Full” error will occur if you try to merge two banks which together contain more than 50 sequences.

O Hot Tip! To save all the samples in a bank in EIIIx, WAVE or AIFF format, press and hold the decimal point key while you press the Save function key. The display will offer you the option to save in these alternate formats. Press the function key under your choice of formats, then press OK.

Note that the preset information is NOT transferred, only the samples.

Load Bank

A bank can be loaded from the bank browser.

v To Load a Bank:

1.From the Bank Browser, select the bank you wish to load using the cursor keys, INC/DEC keys or the Data Entry Control.

2.Press the Load function key (F4). Loading a bank overwrites the bank currently in memory unless you choose to Merge the banks.

3.Press Yes to overwrite the current bank or Cancel to cancel the operation.

4.Press Merge to add the new bank to the current bank in memory.

5.A pop-up dialog box appears, prompting you to select the starting destination preset. Use the Data Entry Control, INC/DEC keys or the numeric pad to select the starting destination preset. As the new bank is merged, its presets will “fill in” any empty presets after this preset.

Save Bank

A bank can be saved to disk from the bank browser.

v To Save a Bank:

1.From the Bank Browser, press the Save function key (F5). The following screen appears:

2. Choose a location for the bank using the Data Entry Control, the INC/DEC keys or the numeric keypad. You may change the current drive or folder by using the up/down cursor keys to select the drive or folder. Press OK to load the bank or Cancel to cancel the operation. If you pressed “OK” the bank will be saved and the main preset selection screen appears. If you are about to overwrite an existing bank, the display will warn you.

•If the bank contains SoundSprinted presets (presets in locations 990999), the display will ask you if you want to save the SoundSprint presets along with the bank.

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View

View

The display can be changed to a list format instead of the normal iconbased format.

v To Change the Display View:

1.From the Bank Browser, press the View function key (F3). The screen will change to a list format.

2.Pressing the View function key again toggles the view back to icon view.

Info…

Information on the selected bank can be displayed.

v To Get Bank Info:

1.From the Bank Browser, press the Info… function key (F6). A pop up window appears with the vital statistics of the selected bank.

2.Press OK to return to the bank browser.

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