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From: "Kevan R.Craft" <[e-mail]>
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Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 12:44:00 +0500
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Hi Pat

Kev here..

On 28-Feb-97, Pat Quinn wrote:
>I work on an i1 that I purchased about 5 months ago
>When it is time to "SAVE" a piece I've been working on (a SNG say) I
>notice that this song which, let's say, I named MYSONG needs to have
>this name  "dialed into" the korg (set). But once this is done, MYSONG
>is the name that is set and subsequent SAVE SNG's has the name MYSONG
>ready and waiting. When I now try this on SAVE MIDI, the korg defaults
>to NEW_SONG.MID. OK. I now set it to MYSONG.MID and save. At least "my"
>experience so far has been, whenever I return to SAVE MIDI, unlike SNG,
>BSG, etc. which will remember what you last set - the SAVE MIDI always
>reverts to NEW_SONG.MID.

When importing a .MID into  a  Korg i-Series Workstation's 16-track SMF
seqencer, it will invariably choose the  actual  file name as its named
and unless you change this, it will retain this name upon saving..

The reason the option "NEW_SONG" is being  used is because there may be
no name embedded within the  SNG/.MID  inputting text  in the song name
field will force the Korg i-Series ROM  software to use that text field
for naming your .SNG and or .MID which is saved to floppy diskette..

>Is there a way to get the korg to know that I have been saving
>MYSONG.MID and would like it to do this one again. I've tried all kinds
>of things: like SAVE SNG (which brings up MYSONG.SNG) then holding
>various button down while I try to transit to SAVE MIDI..... and so
>forth. So far - I still have to reenter M Y S O N G every time.

In Song mode,  press  "Page  +"  button  until  you  are  taken to page
11:UTILITY.. This page contains a "RENAME SONG" feature, you can employ
10 ASCII characters in the text  string, these characters will not only
be embedding your .SNG and or .MID  with  a score name but will also be
used to name the file for saving  to disks.. One word however, although
10 ASCII characters are used embedded within the file, only the first 8
are used to name the file as per  8.3 in MSDOS file name protocol.. The
SNG will retain the complete  10  ASCII characters embedded within the
file but  any  .MID  you  save  will  only  retain  the  first  8 ASCII
characters.. If you save from one of  the song locations as a .MID file
and you've named this as described above,  then port the .MID over to a
computer and then import into this  into a software seqencing program..
Once you've imported the .MID  you'll  see  the  first track within the
sequencer has retained the ASCII text  field  from the file name used..
This is so for both 0 and 1 SMF .MIDs

You can of course name a .SNG and .MID within the "RENAME SONG" feature
whatever you like, similarly whatever  name  you decide to embed within
the .SNG and or .MID doesn't  necessarily  need  to  be as a MSDOS file
name, it could be anything that's  up  to  you the user :-) Once you've
used the "RENAME SONG" feature on page 11:UTILITY from the ROM software
in the Song mode, then the first 8 characters of this ASCII text string
will be used  by  default  to  name  the  file  being  saved  from that
particular song location.. You do have  the  user option to change this
in DISK mode and you  can  name  the  MSDOS  file whatever you want; it
doesn't have to mirror the ASCII  text  string embedded within the .SNG
and or .MID.. You can do  this  for  all  10 song memory locations from
song 0 - 9

>Thanks gang.

>Patrick Quinn
>Portland, OR  USA

Hope this info was what you were looking for?

If you go to Mark Robson's KORG i-Series WEB Site and download his Korg
i-Series composition "Chameleon"  in  Korg  i-Series  .SNG file format,
load this into your i1 into song  0,  then  look  at the top of the LCD
screen and you'll see Mark has named  his  song  at the top part of the
screen using the  alloted  10  ASCII  characters  as  discussed above..
Mark's also used a cute feature  for flipping beyond that song location
to the next and so  on  which  communicates  his name and email address
information in the other song  name  locations.. Like a multi-CD player
after "Chameleon" has played  the  other  songs  play  but just display
Mark's personal details  embedded  within  the  song  text fields, nice
professional touch :-)

        http://www.woden.com/~markr/index.html


Regards



Kev
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