Advanced Use With A Pc 1600 - Peavey Spectrum Bass II Operation Manual

Chapter 6
Use with the PC 1600
Chapter 6 Advanced use with a PC 1600
When using the Bass n with a PC 1600 it is possible to create your own patches. When you create a patch it is loaded
into the edit buffer overwriting whatever is there. You can create a patch by editing an existing patch or by starting
from scratch.
After tweaking a patch that you like, you can save it to one of the 64 RAM locations in the Bass II (patches 0-63).
To do this, select a patch number between 0 and 63 (using the front panel buttons or MIDI), select the "Bass2 Osc
1" patch on the PC1600 (first patch that was downloaded), and press button 16 on the PC1600. Now your new patch
is in memory at your selected location for future use. (It remains even if the unit is powered down). The patch won't
be lost unless you overwrite it with another one later, or re-init the machine. You could lose this hard earned data
if your Bass II gets a spike on the AC line, or by accident if you overwrite it with something else. For this reason,
we suggest that you backup your data to a MIDI storage device (like the Peavey MIDI Streamer or a computer) if
you have custom patches. You can make the Bass II send its 64 RAM patches in the form of a System Exclusive dump
by sending a SysEx dump request (button 15 on the PCl600's "Bass2 Osc 1" patch). If you lose your data, or have
to re-init your Bass n, the data dump can be sent back to the Bass II, and it will restore the patch data automatically.
▼ To download the Bass n creation patches
1. Connect the MIDI Out on the Bass II to the MIDI In on the PC 1600.
2. Make sure the MIDI channel on the Bass II is set to where it will be when you edit with the PC 1600. The SysEx
strings that the PC 1600 sends to the Bass II include this channel, and the Bass II won't respond if they don't
match. If you change the Bass Us MIDI channel in the future, repeat this procedure to match up the two units.
3. Select the starting PC 1600 patch location on the Bass II (its patch number determines the starting destination).
Since there are 24 patches to be downloaded, it is recommended that you start with patch 0 (to load the patches
in locations 0-23) or 26 (to load the patches in locations 26-49).
4. Press and hold the Transpose button, then press the MIDI Mode button to download the patches.
The downloading process will take a little over one minute. When the 3-digit program number comes back
on the display, it's ready. (You may want to watch the PCl600's LCD during the download to make sure
everything's working correctly).
5. Now reconnect the MIDI cables to their original locations. (i.e., connect the MIDI Out on the PC 1600 to the
MIDI In on the Bass EL)
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