Saving, Referencing and Loading Samples

Saving, Referencing and Loading Samples – TRITON Classic/ Studio

Samples that are recorded into TRITON Classic or TRITON Studio 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 3.5″ floppy disks/external media via the optional EXB-SCSI expansion (Classic/Studio), to the internal hard drive or CD-RW (Studio). For large quantities of samples larger media is recommended, since disks hold only 1.44 Megs each, and in most cases, multiple disks are required. Be sure to have a number of freshly formatted disks available before you begin…

To save sampling data onto floppy:

1. Insert a formatted floppy disk into the disk drive.
2. Press the DISK button to enter the Disk mode.
3. Touch the “Save” tab at the bottom of the screen.
4. Touch the arrow at the top right hand side of the screen. A menu will appear.
5. Touch “Save Sampling Data”. A new window will appear.
6. Touch the boxed “T” next to “Newfile”. This will allow you to name the sample file as you see fit. When you touch “T”, you will be brought to a screen that looks like typewriter. Give the file a name by touching the various keys on the screen.
7. When you have completed the naming process, touch the “OK” button at the bottom right hand side of the screen. This will bring you back out to the original screen.
8. Touch the box next to “All”, to ensure that it is checked. This will insure that all samples and multisamples will be saved onto the disk(s).
9. Touch “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 TRITON is telling you that it has started to save a sample, but ran out of room on the current disk, and requires another disk 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 disk into the disk drive.
3. Touch “Select other medium”. It will look at the disk, 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 disk. The TRITON 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 is on the first disk. It 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 TRITON.

Loading sample files back into the TRITON:

1. With the first disk of the series in the disk drive, touch the DISK button to enter the Disk mode.
2. Touch the “Load” tab at the bottom of the screen.
3. Touch the file ending in “.KSC”.
4. Touch the arrow at the top right hand side of the screen. A menu will appear.
5. Touch “Load Selected”.
The samples will begin to load successively into the TRITON.
Note: If your files exist on more than one disk (See “Saving a Divided File”), you will need to help TRITON ‘connect’ the divided files. If the remainder of a sample is on a different disk a window will come up stating:

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

1. Insert the disk that contains the rest of the sample into the disk drive.
2. Touch “Where is a (KSFXXXXX) file?” It will look at the disk, and display it’s contents on the screen.
3. Touch “Select” to continue loading the sample.
Repeat this process until all samples on all chained disks are loaded.

For more info on saving and loading sample data and the Programs that use them see the FAQ about the “Load PCG (RAM) and Samples” command.

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