ALESIS SR-18 Portable Drum Machine - Manual (Page 44)

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ERASING AN ENTIRE SONG
1. The SR18 should be in Song Mode.
2. Use the number buttons, INC / DEC buttons or the
VALUE dial to select the Song to be erased.
3. Press and hold the ERASE button. You will see the
screen shown on the right.
4. While holding down the ERASE button, press REC
(ENTER). The display says SONG ERASED and
erasure is complete.
5. Release the ERASE and REC (ENTER) buttons.
SAVING YOUR SONG
When you are finished putting together your Song, you will need to save it to permanent memory.
Please note that all Song data will be lost if you turn off the SR18 before saving your Song.
1. The SR18 should be in Song Mode.
2. Use the INC / DEC buttons, the number keypad or the
VALUE dial to select the Song which you would like to
save.
3. Press and hold the SAVE / COPY button.
4. Press REC (ENTER) to save the song. The display
will show
SAVE DONE .
5. Release the SAVE / COPY button.
APPEND A SONG
You can use this feature to append all content from the selected Song to the end of another
Song. Appending a Song to an empty destination will create an identical copy of the Song. Note
that you can double the Song sequence by appending a Song to itself.
1. The SR18 should be in Song Mode.
2. Select the Song to be copied to itself with the number buttons, INC / DEC buttons or the VALUE
dial.
3. Press and hold the SAVE / COPY button.
4. While holding the SAVE / COPY button, press the
PAGE UP button. You will see the screen shown on
the right.
5. While continuing to hold the SAVE / COPY button,
enter the same Song number as the one selected in
step (2).
6. Press REC (ENTER) to copy the song to itself.
7. Release the SAVE / COPY and REC (ENTER) buttons.
NAME A SONG (NAME)
1. Press RECORD SETUP. If the Song has been named, the name will show on the top line. If the
Song has not been named, the display says
NO NAME .
2. Enter the name using the PAGE UP/DOWN buttons to select the character to be changed
(selected character is indicated by a cursor underneath it), and the INC/DEC buttons or Value Dial
to select the desired character. Lower case and upper case letters, numbers, punctuation, and
various special-purpose characters are available. You can also enter numbers with the number
buttons.