Saving, Referencing and Loading Samples

Samples that are recorded into TR are not held in memory after the machine is turned off.
This makes it necessary to save the samples onto media. You can save sample data onto a smart
media card, or external SCSI media via the optional EXB-SMPL expansion.

To save sampling data onto smart media:

1. Insert a formatted smart media card into the smart media card bay.
2. Press the Media button to enter the Media mode.
3. Press F2, the “Save” tab at the bottom of the screen.
4. Press the F8 button, “Utility”.
5. Using the cursor buttons, select “Save Sampling Data”.
6. Press the F8 button, “OK”.
7. Press the F5 button, “Name”.
8. Using the “F” function buttons under the screen, you can change the name of “Newfile” to name the
sample file as you see fit. Give the file a name by touching the various buttons under the screen.
9. When you have completed the naming process, press F8 “OK”. This will bring you back out to the
original screen.
10. Using the INC/DEC buttons, or wheel, select “All Multisamples”. This will insure that all samples and
multisamples will be saved onto the media card.
11. Press F8, “OK” to commence saving.

Saving a “Divided File”

Sometimes, when there is more sample information then what will fit on a disk, a window will appear
asking if you wish to make a “Divided File”. The product is telling you that it has started to save a
sample, but ran out of room on the current media, and requires another card to continue saving the
sample it’s working on. If this happens:
1. Press “O.K.”
When the time comes to divide the file, a window will appear. The left side says “Select other
medium”.
2. Insert a new smartmedia card into the slot.
3. Touch “Select other medium”. It will look at the card, and display it’s contents on the screen. It should
be blank.
4. Touch “Select”. The remaining portion of the sample will be saved onto the card. The TR will
then continue saving the next successive sample.

You may repeat this process until all samples are saved. Note, this will not be required with external
SCSI media, because external drives are large enough to do all data in one shot.

We also recommend that you save any PCG data (Programs/Combinations etc.) that you have made
referencing these samples. Save only the needed Bank(s) to keep the file size small, and name the PCG file
the same name as your saved samples for easy reference.

Looking at the files

The most important file on the Smart media card is the name of the file followed by “.KSC”. This is a
Korg Script File. The script file is very helpful, because loading that file creates a ‘chain reaction”
which loads ALL of the samples that have been saved, and puts them back into the right places in the
product.

Loading sample files back:

1. With the smart media card in the bay, press the DISK button to enter the Disk mode.
2. Press the F1 button, the”Load” tab at the bottom of the screen.
3. Using the cursor arrow buttons, select the file you named, ending in “.KSC”.
4. Press the F8 button. A menu will appear.
5. Using the cursor arrow buttons, select “Load Selected”.
6. Press the F8 button,”OK”

The samples will begin to load successively into the product.
Note: In the event that your files exist on more than one card (See “Saving a Divided File”), you will
need to help the product ‘connect’ the divided files. If the remainder of a sample is on a different
media card a window will come up stating:

Where is a (KSFXXXXX) file? (XXXXX = Number of the sample, which varies)

1. Insert the media card that contains the rest of the sample into the media card bay.
2. Using the cursor arrow buttons, select “Where is a (KSFXXXXX) file?” and Press F8, “OK”. It will
look at the card, and display its contents on the screen.
3. Using the cursor arrows, select the word “Select” and press F8 “OK” to continue loading the sample.
Repeat this process until all samples on all chained disks are loaded.

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