Midi - Access Virus Rack XL User Manual

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CHAPTER 12
Tips, Tricks& Words Of Wisdom
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MIDI

MIDI DUMP RX
The Virus lets you audition sound banks that are
available as MIDI dumps on a sequencer indi-
vidually rather than loading them directly to the
banks of the Virus, where they would delete that
the sounds that you have stored there.
Set the MIDI DUMP RX parameter to FORCE
TO EDIT BUFFER With this option, sounds that
would otherwise be loaded directly to a sound
bank via MIDI are instead loaded to the Edit
buffer. The name of the given sound is shown in
the display and can be played straightaway.
When additional sounds are sent via MIDI, the
sounds that were sent previously are overwrit-
ten in the Edit buffer. If you set the tempo of the
sequencer that is sending sounds to a very
slow speed, you can load individual sounds and
store them to the desired memory slot by
pressing the STORE button.
The two FORCE TO BANK A and "Force To
Bank B" options send an incoming sound dump
to the respective bank irrespective of which
bank the sounds were originally stored in.
The VERIFY option compares a MIDI dump to
the memory content of the Virus. It checks if a
dump was recorded properly on the sequencer
and if it can be played back correctly. Load data
from the sequencer into the Virus while "Verify"
is enabled. The Virus' display will indicate if the
device is actually receiving data and it will call
your attention to any transmission errors that
may occur. Data stored in the Virus remains un-
affected by this operation.
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EXPRESSION CONTROLLER
The Virus is able to handle Expression Control-
ler (Controller #11) commands. Expression is a
volume controller similar to Channel Volume
that can be used independently as a volume
control or to create gate effects (Controller #7).
It is also reset by Controller Reset (double click
on POWER and STORE). The default setting is
127.
BANK/PROGRAM CHANGE VIA SYSEX
A bank or program change can be initiated via a
SysEx command. These commands are inde-
pendent of MIDI channels as well as all other
SysEx parameter changes. SysEx program