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beedoola · Joined: 28 May 2011 Posts: 7

I borrowed a friends EM-1. I've never used it so I downloaded the manual. I'm trying to delete songs so I can start from scratch but it is driving me nuts because its not working (or obviously more likely; I'm not doing it right!!!).

The manual says to hit the song button, hold the shift button, press button 13 once so it blinks and then hit it again. I do that and nothing seems to happen and when I press play, the song keeps playing as before.

What am I doing wrong?

Ted3000 · Platinum Member Joined: 06 Jul 2013 Posts: 625

When you say "song", do you really mean "pattern?"

robosardine · Posted: Thu Aug 01, 2013 12:59 am Post subject:

You will need to turn off the 'memory protect' in the global settings or as Ted3000 is asking above are you maybe erasing a song then playing a pattern and perhaps confusing the two?

Butterman · Joined: 22 Mar 2017 Posts: 1 Location: the 514

Apologies if I am literaly barging into the discussion without any proper introductions nor more pleasant first posts to this board, but I needed to get this going up again:

[quote="robosardine"]You will need to turn off the 'memory protect' in the global settings or as Ted3000 is asking above are you maybe erasing a song then playing a pattern and perhaps confusing the two?[/quote]

It may appear to be a bug in the EM-1. After all, I have spent literally a 60 minute chunk of time also attempting to erase songs in the memory, but to no avail.

Global mode protection was turned OFF.

In song mode: YES.

It would appear that the instruction manual is lacking a crutial part of the information, because as bedoolaa wrote: "The manual says to hit the song button, hold the shift button, press button 13 once so it blinks and then hit it again. I do that and nothing seems to happen and when I press play, the song keeps playing as before."

If anyone has any informtion reguarding how to actually erase songs in the EM-1, please share your knowledge!