Technics KN7000 · Disk and SD cardPrepare a new SD card
SD cards on the KN7000
The KN7000 saves its data to SD cards and loads it back, and plays music files from them. Source: Manual, p. 138 An SD card came with the keyboard. Source: Manual, p. 208
A card holds up to 99 folders of 20 saves. On the card each save is called a song: one save, not one tune. Source: Manual, p. 148
The SD card slot is behind a lid on the strip below the panel, on the right, with the SD player’s buttons. The SD button is at the top of the panel’s right-hand end. Source: Tested on a KN7000
Which cards work
The manual doesn’t give a card size or type. Source: Manual, pp. 138–152
- SDHC cards aren’t recognised. Source: Community report SDHC is the larger kind of SD card, 4 GB and up, marked SDHC on the label. Source: Inferred
- The design limit is 1 GB. Some 2 GB cards work when formatted to 1 GB, and not every 1 GB card works. Source: Community report
- A 1 GB card works; a computer reads it as FAT16. Cards formatted on a computer are untested. Source: Tested on a KN7000
Most SD cards have a small lock switch on one edge. A locked card can’t be written to, so slide the switch away from LOCK before formatting or saving. Source: Inferred
Format the card in the keyboard
Formatting prepares the card for the keyboard. It erases everything on the card. Source: Manual, p. 151
- Open the lid of the SD slot fully. Push the card in until it locks, then close the lid. Nothing works while the lid is open.
- Press SD. The screen shows the SD MENU.
- Choose SD TOOLS.
- Press FORMAT. The screen changes to the format screen for the card.
The manual doesn’t describe the format screen. It doesn’t show it, or say how to confirm or how long formatting takes. Source: Manual, p. 151 These steps stop there until they’ve been tried on a spare card. Source: Inferred
Don’t take the card out or switch off while the SD IN USE light, on the strip by the slot, is on. Source: Manual, p. 139
Then save something to it
Save something to the newly formatted card before copying any files onto it from a computer. The first save also writes the card’s index, the file that holds the names of its folders and songs. Source: Community report
Any save does this: see Save your work to a card or floppy.
Folder and song names can be up to 16 characters. FOLDER RENAME names a folder, on the save screen or in SD TOOLS. Source: Manual, pp. 147–148, 151
The card on a computer
- The keyboard’s saves are in
PRIVATE/TECHNICS/KN7000/on the card. Source: Tested on a KN7000 - Deleting the card’s index file,
KN7000MN.INF, makes every save show as a bare number. Source: Community report - Copying a card’s whole contents onto an empty card works as a backup. Source: Community report
Manual pages
KN7000 owner's manual, pp. 138–139, 147–148, 151, 208.
Corrections: hello@knarrangers.com
Guide D7 · last checked 13 Nov 2026