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Saving Files, Copying Files, Deleting Files,
Moving Files, Naming Files, Creating Folders
What Can You Do With
a File?
Consider the example of the two multipad files on the floppy disk.
If you had loaded the second file, when you press [I] to go back
and look at the Multipad screen, you will see that 8BtSoft NPoh
is selected. Whenever a file is (or files are) selected, they
appear in inverse video. To load that file, you would simply
double-click button [B] and the multipad file would be loaded into
the PSR clip board. Actually, there really is no clip board,
but I am using that expression to represent all the files you see
on the MAIN screen that are currently loaded. This includes
the style file, the main, layer, and left
voices, the multipad file and the registration file.
They are all loaded where the keyboard can use them for your performance.
But they are not permanently stored in this performance area --
that is why I have called it a clip board. When you power
off the machine, everything stored in that performance area disappears.
Of course, when you turn your keyboard back on, the style says HeartBeat,
because the PSR-2000 always loads HeartBeat when you start.
Similarly, it puts an empty NewBank in the registration area.
In fact, there is a "default" file that it sticks in all
the main page file locations.
2000 vs 2100, 3000, ... -- Note:
here is one difference between the PSR-2000 and the later PSR keyboards.
In the 2000, the registration file is automatically set to an empty
NewBank file when you power on. On subsequent PSR models, the initial
registration file contains the same entries that were there when
you last shut your keyboard off.
Now, everything loaded into that performance
area can be changed or modified. But, if you want to SAVE
your modifications permanently, you need to save a copy of what
is on the "clipboard" to some more permanent storage area.
Your permanent storage area will be the USER area in your
keyboard or a floppy disk. You save the file by using
the [SAVE] file option. All the file options are shown at
the bottom of each file screen. You see the list of file options
in the Multipad screen shown above. When you select one of
these file options, by pressing the corresponding numbered button
under the option, your screen changes and you are prompted for the
next step. The prompts, and the meaning of each option, are
explained in the table below:
NAME 
This is actually a "rename" option since the file you
are selecting is likely to have a name already. Note that
you can also use this option to check the full name of a file if
the name happens to be larger than will fit on the file display
screen. The PSR uses variable width letters (the "M" takes
up much more space than the "i") so the number of characters that
will display varies. For example, if you use lower case for
file names you can show more characters. "ABCDEFGHIJKL" -- ll characters
-- takes up the same space as "abcdefghijklmn" -- 14 characters.
If the name is too long for the file display screen, a tilde "~"
appears at the end of the name.
To rename a file, follow these steps:
- Press [1B] to select the NAME option.
Note: instead of saying the button Above the number 1 or
the button Below the number 1 at the bottom of the screen,
we will simply refer to [#A] or [#B] to reference the 16 buttons
associated with the numbers below the main screen..
- Press the appropriate lettered button
( [A] - [J] ) to select the file or folder you wish to rename.
- The Input Name screen appears.
It shows the name of the file you picked in a box located above
two rows of characters. You will encounter this name input
box many times, so we provided a separate lesson on How
to Name a File.
- When you have your name entered as you
want, press [8A] to indicate [OK], which will implement
your name change.
CUT 
 The
CUT operation is similar to COPY, which is explained
below. The primary difference is that CUT will not only copy
the file you indicate, it will also delete it from its current location.
For example, if you wanted to move a file from the USER area to
the FLOPPY DISK, you could use the COPY operation to copy the file
and then use the DELETE operation to delete the file from the USER
area. The CUT operation accomplishes this in one step.
If you are conservative, you may want to take the longer approach.
When you are sure you have copied the file successfully to where
you want it to be, you can always go back and delete the original.
The steps for CUT are the same as those for COPY and are explained
in the following paragraphs.
COPY 
Here is an option you will use many times. If you want to
move any of the PRESET files to a floppy disk, you would use the
COPY option to copy that file to a new location -- either
the USER area or the FLOPPY DISK area. Similarly, if you wanted
to copy a file from your floppy disk and store it in the USER area
(you can not, of course, store it in the PRESET area), you would
use the COPY option.
When you select COPY, you are presented with
the COPY option screen and are prompted to "Select files/folders."
Note the plural. You may select more than one file (or folder)
to copy. You select the files by pressing the relevant lettered
button. Every time you select a file, it will be shown in
inverse video so you can see what is selected. If you want
to copy all of the files, just select the ALL option and
every file will be selected. When you are done selecting one
or more files to copy, you press the [7B] key to indicate OK.
Now you must move to the area where you
want to copy the files to. If you were copying from the FLOPPY
disk, you would press [BACK] to move to the USER area. If
you were copying from the PRESET area, you would press [NEXT] to
move to the USER or press [NEXT] again to move to the FLOPPY DISK
area. When you arrive at the file display screen where you
want to copy your file to, you will notice that the PASTE
option is now available. Select PASTE [4B] to paste the file
in the desired location.
Let's summarize these steps to copy a file
from the FLOPPY DISK to the USER area.
- With the file display showing the file
you want to copy, select COPY [3B].
- Select the file that you want to copy
by pressing the appropriate lettered button.
- Press OK [7B] to indicate that you are
done selecting files.
- Press [BACK] to move to the USER tab.
- Press PASTE [4B] to paste your file in
its new location. You will see a message that the operation
is being executed and warning you not to turn off your computer
until its is done pasting the file.
- The file now shows up on the list of files
in your USER area.
PASTE 
If you have chosen to copy or cut a file,
the PASTE option will become active when you move to a memory area
where the file can be pasted. Simply select PASTE to complete
the copy or cut operation. Note: you will obviously never
see PASTE available when you are looking in the PRESET area.
DELETE 
You may delete a single file or multiple files. Like
the cut and copy options, after you select DELETE, you are prompted
to select the files that you want to delete. You can choose
to delete ALL the files by selecting the ALL option.
When you have selected all the files you want deleted, press
OK [7B]. You will be prompted to confirm that you wish
to delete the file. Press [F] "YES" to confirm the delete;
press [G] to choose "NO" -- do not delete the file.
If you had selected multiple files to delete,
the warning message for the first file would give you four options:
[F] YES, {G} YES to ALL, [H] NO, or [I] CANCEL. If you select
[G], all the files will be deleted. Be careful here, there
may have been a file highlighted that you were not aware of; and,
if so, it, too, would be deleted. If you are not sure, you
can always select [F] YES to delete the first file and then review
each file name, in turn, to make sure you are deleting the correct
files.
SAVE 
SAVE is used when you
have loaded a file to use in a performance and, perhaps modified
some of the parameters, and now want to save that file in a permanent
location. For example, if you load a preset style and then make
modifications to the style instruments or volumes, you can not save
your changes back into the PRESET area, you must save these changes
either to the USER area or to a FLOPPY DISK. If you modify
the one-touch settings to a style and want to save these new settings,
they will be saved in the style itself, but this can only happen
if you can save the style and you can only save that style to the
USER or FLOPPY DISK areas.
When you choose to save, the current name,
if any, will be shown in the name box. You can modify that
name as desired. Review the lesson on How
to Name Files if you need help.
This is a very important operation if you
are trying to save a registration file. Many users are confused
by this. You use the [MEMORY] button plus the registration
buttons to save your setups in any of the 8 registration buttons.
These, together, make up a single registration file. But they
will all be lost if you turn power to your machine off. You
must SAVE this registration file (in the USER area or on a FLOPPY
DISK) and give it a unique name. Every time you turn on your
PSR-2000, the registration file is set to NewBank -- which is completely
empty. To load a registration file that you created, you must
access the REGISTRATION BANK screen and select the appropriate file
-- which you SAVED when you created it.
NEW 
Just like a floppy disk can have "folders", so, too, can the PSR-2100.
In fact, if you load a floppy disk that has folders, those folders
will be visible from your PSR screen. You can use folders
to help organize your data, although using a folder means you have
to open the folder before you can see the files in it. If
you have 50 files, you could store them all at the root level
and you would find that the PSR file system shows this as 5 pages
of files (10 files per page). To see all the files you
would use the [1A] to [5A] buttons to select among the 5 pages.
You could alternatively group your files
into 5 folders of 10 files each. Your PSR display would
show the 5 folders, but you would have to select a particular folder
and open it to see the 10 files stored there. Whether using
folders is preferable or not is an individual choice.
UP 
If you do have folders, then the last choice,
UP, becomes available. As soon as you select a folder,
you will see the UP option. This lets you move UP from the
folder you selected to its parent folder. You may have a folder
within a folder within a folder. So, if you have "nested"
folders, you will need UP to take you "up" the
hierarchy to get to the top-level folder.
EDIT
If you are looking at the REGISTRATION BANK
or the Multipad file screens, you will see an EDIT option.
EDIT is used when a file has individual components that you may
want to name. In the case of the registration files, each
of the 8 registration buttons can be given a unique name.
Similarly, each of the four multipad settings can have a unique
name.
DEMO
If you are looking at the VOICE file screen,
you will see an additional DEMO option. By selecting
the DEMO option, you can hear a short musical demonstration of what
that instrumental voice sounds like. You may wonder how, if
you download a voice file from the Internet and put it in your PSR,
there could be a demo of that voice. If you remember in our
lesson on demonstrations
, there are demos for all the voices in the PSR. A voice file
contains, basically, parameter modifications to one of the preset
voices available in the PSR-2100. You create new voices by
modifying the preset voices. Thus, when you want to demo the
"new" voice, it simply uses the musical demo that was stored for
the original preset voice upon which the new voice is built.
Well, that covers all the File Operations.
You should now be an expert in using the PSR file system!
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