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Card Storage RAMifications
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
the User Bank uses a Program that's located in Card Bank 1. If the User Bank 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
S4 Plus, 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 S4, 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.
Saving Programs via MIDI Sys Ex
As an alternative to storing data to a card, the S4 Plus lets you transmit internal data
via MIDI System Exclusive messages. This data can be sent to a storage device, or
recorded into a MIDI sequencer, or sent to another S4 Plus. You have a choice of
sending any single Program in the User bank (00 to 127), or what is in the current
Program Edit buffer, or what is in any of the 16 Mix Edit Program buffers, or the entire
User bank (100 Mixes, 128 Programs, 128 Effects Patches) plus Global data. In the
case of sending data to another S4 Plus, you can send any individual Program to the
same location or any other location in the receiving S4 Plus, including any of its 17
Program Edit buffers.
S4 Plus Reference Manual
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