Special Cases - Alesis Ion Reference Manual

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Parts and Setups
bank you wish to transmit ("from") and the bank you wish it to come
back as ("to"). Press [store] a second time and the Bank will be sent out
the Ion's MIDI jack.

Special cases

S tore Program mode
There are a few options between the "User:all" and the "Red:000"
choices of the "Send Program to MIDI" page that should be pointed
out. They are called edit:a, edit:b, edit:c, and edit:d. These stand for
the four Program edit buffers in the current Setup.
Of course, these are useful as a "from" location, but they are even more
useful as a "to" location. Herein lies the solution to the problem of
knowing where a Program will arrive when it is sent back to the Ion via
MIDI, and wondering if it will accidentally overwrite something you
wanted to keep. The solution: always select one of the edit buffers as
the "to" location. When the Program comes back, you won't have to go
fishing for it in the middle of a Bank of 127 Programs; it'll be in one of
four non-destructive locations. If you want to narrow it down even
further, always select the same edit buffer, be it edit:a or edit:d, as the
destination. If you're consistent with this, you'll save yourself a lot of
headaches later on.
S tore Setup Mode
The "Send Setup to MIDI" page, discussed immediately below, has an
extra option called "edit" that is equivalent to the edit:a-d options on the
"Send Program to MIDI" page. If you want to keep your options open
when transmitting a single Setup to MIDI, select the "edit" option as the
"to" location. That way it will always be returned to the Setup edit buffer,
where you can place it in a location known at that time to be available.
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