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MIDI Transfer and Storage Operations: Chapter 9
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You can load a single Mix or Program from a Sound Card into the User Bank, instead
of having to load the entire Bank from the Sound Card. To do this, select the Mix or
Program in the Sound Card Bank that you wish to copy, then use the Store Function
(as described above) to designate a location you wish to store to in the User Bank.
Note: When storing a Mix from a Sound Card into the User Bank, the individual
Programs used by the Mix will not be moved into the User Program Bank. Once you
store a Mix from a Sound Card into the User Bank, it will still look for its Programs in
the Sound Card Bank, if that is where it was programmed to look for them in the first
place (which is almost always the case).
C ARD S TORAGE RAM IFICATIONS
Whenever you transfer an internal Bank to a RAM card, the result is that all Mixes in
the transferred Bank are changed so that they now access the Programs on the card
bank to which the User bank was saved (since they reside there, now), instead of the
Programs from the original internal Bank. And, when a Card Bank is transferred to an
internal Bank location, the opposite happens – all Programs within a Mix which had
previously accessed card bank 1 (the ROM card) now point to the User bank.
However, a problem can arise when you have one or more Mixes in the Bank you are
transferring which use Programs already on the Card. Example: Let's say Mix 00 in
Preset Bank 1 uses a Program that’s located in Card Bank 1. If the Preset Bank 1 is
transferred to the Card Bank 1, the result will be that Mix 00 in Card Bank 1 now uses
only Programs from Card Bank 1. If later you transfer the entire Bank back into the
QS, you will find that Mix 00 no longer uses the Program on the Card as it was
originally programmed to.
Here’s a few ways to avoid this problem. First, always transfer to a Card Bank that
does not include any Programs used by the Mixes in the Bank you are transferring
from. In other words, if we transferred the Bank into Card Bank 2, we would not have
a problem, since the Mix would still be using the Program in Card Bank 1. When this
Bank is transferred back to the QS, the Mix will still use the Program in Card Bank 1.
Another way to avoid this problem is to transfer the Bank to a Card Bank, and then
immediately store the individual Mix onto the Card by itself. When a Mix is stored
individually to a Card, it is not modified in any way ; i.e. if it used Programs in the
internal Banks, it will still use them even though the Mix and its Programs are in two
different locations (the Mix is on the Card but the Programs it uses are stored in the
internal Banks).
Finally, you could avoid this situation by always making sure your Mixes use only
Programs located in the same Bank it is stored in. This could mean individually
storing some Programs from a RAM Card into one of the internal Banks. Although
this is very limiting, it makes things much simpler in the long run.
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