RD-80e
DATA FILER
5. PLAYING BACK SONGS
5.1 STARTING THE SYSTEM
After making all the connections, switch on the RD-80e using the [POWER] switch on the
rear panel.
The display will first show the software loading video page:
and then a moving central dash, instructing you to wait for the system to start up.
When the setup procedures are complete, the display will show:
if the floppy disk is not inserted (or inserted but not compatible, see point 5.3.1) or:
i.e. the song selection video page (which from now on we will also call the Main Page),
confirming that the first song saved on the floppy disk has been selected (see Automatic
Sort in point 5.2).
5.2 THE SORT AUTOMATIC
Whenever a floppy disk is inserted in the drive, the RD-80e performs the automatic sort
function; in other words, it arranges the songs in rising alphabetical order (on the basis of
the ASCII code). This means that the first backing track on the disk will be the one with the
name which comes first in alphabetical order, and the last one the one with the last name.
Bear in mind that the name of a file may also consist of numbers, which in the ASCII
alphabet are placed before the letters, so: “2worlds.mid” will be placed before “myway.mid”.
The character placed last in the ASCII alphabetical order is the underscore (_), so files
whose names start with this character will be placed last in the order.
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