9: Midi Transfer And Storage Operations; Saving The User Bank To An External Card; Loading A Bank From An External Card - Alesis QS6 Reference Manual

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AVING THE SER
The entire contents of the QS6's User memory (100 Mixes and 128 Programs) can be
stored to an Alesis QuadraCard RAM card inserted into the Sound Card slot on the
QS6. Depending on the amount of RAM a particular card has, up to 8 complete banks
can be stored onto it. The QuadraCard is a type of PCMCIA SRAM or FlashRAM card;
it has 256K of memory and will store 4 complete banks. A 512K PCMCIA card can
store 8 banks. When saving data to a card that contains a ROM (READ-ONLY) bank,
the ROM data is found in bank 1; this means you cannot save anything into bank 1.
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Insert a card into the Sound Card slot on the back of the QS6.
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Press [STORE].
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Press [
This selects the "SAVE TO CARD" option. The display will look like this:
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Use the [CONTROLLER A] slider to select a bank location on the card to store to
(1–8).
If the card contains a ROM bank, it will be bank 1. Therefore, you will only be
able to save into bank locations 2–8.
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Press [STORE] to transfer the user bank data from the QS6 onto the card.
If the display reads "CARD IS WRITE PROTECTED.", switch the write-protect switch
on the card to off and repeat the procedure.
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The QS6 can read data directly from a card by using the [
overwrite the User bank with a Card bank, use this procedure:
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Insert the card into the card slot on the back panel.
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Press [STORE].
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Press [
This selects the "LOAD FROM CARD" option. The display will look like this:
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Use the [CONTROLLER A] slider to select the bank on the card you wish to load
(1–8).
QS6 Reference Manual
MIDI Transfer and Storage Operations: Chapter 9
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SAVE TO CARD 1?
(Press STORE)
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PAGE] once to select Page 7 of the Store function.
LOAD FRM CARD 1?
(Press STORE)
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