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Appendix D: What's New in the 2.0 "Plus" Upgrade
• Any PCMCIA Type I SRAM Card
• All AMD 'C' series and 'D' series Type I FLASH Cards.
Storing to Specific Sound Card Locations
You now have the option of storing an edited Mix or Program directly to a specific
location in a RAM Sound Card Bank (instead of only being able to transfer the entire
Bank) and vice versa. However, the Sound Card you are storing to must be of the
current S4 Bank format. A Sound Card is formatted whenever an entire S4 Plus Bank
is stored onto it. If you are using an older Sound Card that does not use the current
Bank format, you will not be able to store individual Mixes or Programs onto until you
store an entire S4 Bank onto it first.
If the card is write-protected, or not inserted, or not of the current bank format, the
display will indicate the situation with an error message. If the card is not of the
current Bank format, use the "Save To Card" command first (Store Mode, Page 5).
This however will erase all Programs and Mixes on the card. If these are important to
you, first load them into the User Bank in the S4, and then save them back onto the
card in order to re-format the card using the new format.
Saving Banks to a Sound Card
If you store the entire User Bank onto a RAM Sound Card Bank, the Mixes in the
transferred Bank are automatically reprogrammed to look in the same Sound Card
bank for Programs used in the User Bank. If a Mix uses Programs in the Preset
Banks, these will not be redirected.
Example: Mix 52 in the User Group has Channel 1 assigned to Program 23 in the
User Bank and Channel 2 assigned to Program 14 in the Preset 1 Bank. When the
User Bank is stored onto a Sound Card and the same Mix is recalled from the Sound
Card (Mix 52 in the Sound Card Bank), you will find that Channel 1 has been
reassigned to use Program 23 in the Sound Card Bank while Channel 2's Program
assignment has been left alone (it is still assigned to Program 14 in the Preset 1
Bank).
Note: If you have a RAM Sound Card that is of the old format (cannot store individual
Programs or Mixes), you can bring it up to date by saving the User Bank onto it. Once
this is done, you can store individual Programs or Mixes to any location on the Sound
Card.
Loading Single Programs or Mixes from a Sound Card
The S4 Plus may now 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 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).
Loading Banks from a Sound Card
When you recall a Mix that is on a Sound Card, it will usually be made up of
Programs from the same Sound Card Bank. If you store the entire Sound Card Bank
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