Card Storage Ramifications - Alesis QS6 Reference Manual

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You also have the option of storing a Mix or Program directly to a specific location in
a RAM Sound Card Bank (instead of transferring the entire Bank) and vice versa.
However, the Sound Card you are storing to must be of the current QS6 Bank format.
A Sound Card is formatted whenever an entire QS6 Bank is stored onto it. If you are
using an older QuadraSynth Sound Card that does not use the current Bank format,
you will not be able to store individual Mixes or Programs onto it until you store an
entire QS6 Bank onto it first.
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Insert a card into the Sound Card slot on the back of the QS6.
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Select the Program or Mix you wish to transfer to the card.
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Press [STORE].
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Use the [s VALUE] and [VALUE t] buttons 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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Use the Group buttons ([00/PIANO], [10/CHROMATIC], [20/ORGAN], etc.) and
the [0] – [9] buttons to select a location in the selected card Bank to save to (00–
127 if storing a Program; 00–99 if storing a Mix).
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Press [STORE] to transfer the data from the QS6 onto the card.
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 (see previous page) to
save the entire User Bank to the card. This however will erase all Programs and
Mixes in the selected card Bank. If these are important to you, first load them into the
User Bank in the QS6, and then save them back onto the card in order to re-format
the card using the new format.
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You can 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
(as described above) 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).
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MIDI Transfer and Storage Operations: Chapter 9
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