Midi/Util Button; A Midi Echo; B Dump Sysex - Alesis BRC Reference Manual

5.3 MIDI/UTIL BUTTON

The MIDI/UTIL button gives you access to basic MIDI and utility
functions. Each time this button is pressed, the display will cycle
through the 7 pages and their respective functions, described below.

5.3A MIDI Echo

MIDI Echo is a function whereby any information that is received at
the MIDI In port will be echoed to the MIDI Out port. This allows the
merging of information coming into the BRC with the BRC's own
MIDI output. For example, let's say your MIDI sequencer has only one
MIDI In port, but you want to record from your master keyboard and
send it MIDI-Clock information from the BRC at the same time. By
connecting the MIDI-Out of your keyboard into the MIDI-In of the
BRC and the MIDI-Out of the BRC into the MIDI-In of your
sequencer, you can have the best of both worlds. This is because,
when MIDI Echo is turned on, the BRC will merge the incoming
information and send it out combined with its own.
To enable MIDI Echo:
1 Press the MIDI/UTIL button (if one of the MIDI/UTIL pages was
already being displayed, press the MIDI/UTIL button repeatedly
until the MIDI Echo function is reached);
The display should look like this:
1: MIDI Echo O FF
2 Use the UP/DOWN buttons to turn MIDI Echo either on or off.

5.3B Dump Sysex

This process is similar to the SAVE SETUP TO TAPE function (see
section 5.2A). The difference is that the information will be sent via
the MIDI Out port as system-exclusive data. You also have a choice of
either sending out all data, or only a single song's data. The data can
be stored in a MIDI storage device, such as the Alesis DataDisk, or
recorded into a MIDI sequencer.
To load this information back into the BRC, simply send it back into
the MIDI-In port. The BRC will automatically go into receive mode
the moment it begins to see the system-exclusive data. When
receiving the data for one song only, the information will be placed
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