Casio AP-500 User Manual

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Using an SD Memory Card

Your digital piano’s SD memory card
slot makes it possible for you to store
song data on a commercially
available SD memory card.
The digital piano also can read SMF song data and
CASIO format song data from an SD memory card.

z Supported SD Memory Cards
The maximum supported SD memory card size is 1 GB.
Use of any SD memory card with greater capacity is
not supported.

z Supported Data File Types and SD Memory Card

Operations

*1 If the first two characters of the filename of song

data is not a two-digit number from 01 to 99, the
corresponding letter (according to data type)
shown in the parentheses will be displayed as
the data type indicator.

*2 Song data recorded with the digital piano can be

saved as SMF Format 0 data.

*3 The digital piano will not be able to correctly

play a file that has more than 17 tracks.

z Data File Display

IMPORTANT!

• Use only SD memory cards. Operation is not guaranteed

when any other type of memory card is used.

SD Memory Card and SD Memory Card
Slot Precautions

IMPORTANT!

• Whenever handling an SD memory card, be sure to

observe the instructions and precautions in the user
documentation that comes with it.

• SD memory cards have a write-protect switch that

protects against accidental deletion of data.

• Avoid using an SD memory card in the following types of

areas. Such conditions can corrupt data stored on the
memory card.
• Areas subjected to high temperature, high humidity,

and corrosive gas

• Areas subjected to strong electrostatic charge and

digital noise

• Never touch the contacts of an SD memory card when

loading it or removing it from the digital piano.

• Never remove the SD memory card from the digital piano

or turn off the digital piano while it is reading data from or
writing data to the memory card. Doing so can corrupt the
data on the memory card and damage the SD memory
card slot.

/NO

/YES

TEMPO/SETTING

CARD

PLAY/STOP

SD CARD SLOT

RECORDER

MUSIC LIBRARY

Data File Type

Display

Indicator

*1

File Name

Extension

Supported SD

Memory Card

Operations

SMF Data
(Format 0)

U (v)

.MID

Playback,
transfer to user
area, save to
SD memory
card

*2

SMF Data
(Format 1)

*3

U (v)

.MID

Playback,
transfer to user
area

Song data
converted to
CASIO format
using CASIO
SMF conversion
software
(CASIO format)

C (d)

.CM2

Playback,
transfer to user
area

Song data
recorded on the
digital piano
(CASIO format)

r (q)

.CSR

Transfer to
recorder area,
save to SD
memory card

Data File Type

File Number (01 to 99)

B

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