Editing Programs: Part 8
TO AUDITION PROGRAMS BEFORE STORING
To look for available memory locations to permanently store your Program into, you can move between Program Mode and Mix Mode without losing your changes. This is because Program Mode uses a Program edit buffer, and Mix Mode uses its own Mix edit buffer along with 16 additional Program edit buffers. These buffers are retained when moving between Program Mode and Mix Mode, making it easy to search for a suitable location to store your newly created Program. Example: While in Program Edit mode, go to Mix Mode and scroll through the Program list on one of the Channels; while editing a Program from within Mix Mode, go to Program Mode to scroll through the Program list.
The way to tell the difference between a program edited in Program Mode and one edited from Mix Mode is by looking at the display: in Program Edit Mode, “PROG EDIT” appears in the
✪You will lose your changes if you remain in the same mode and recall a different Mix/Program by pressing the [0] – [9] or [00] – [120] buttons.
To audition Programs before overwriting them with [STORE] …when editing a Program in Program Mode:
❿While in Program Edit mode, press [MIX].
This selects Mix Play Mode, retaining your edits to the Program in an edit buffer.
❡Use the [
BANK] and [BANK 
] buttons to select Preset Bank 4; then press
[00] and [0] to select the “GM Multi“ Mix 00. This is a good “generic” Mix for our auditioning purposes.
①Press both [PAGE] buttons simultaneously to select Channel 1.
➃Use the [
BANK] and [BANK 
] buttons select the User Bank (or a Card bank).
➄Use the [0] – [9] or [00] – [120] buttons to go through the Programs in the selected Bank until you find one you wish to overwrite with the new edited Program. Take a note of the number.
➅Press [PROGRAM] to enter Program Play Mode.
This recalls the edit buffer in Program Mode, which still contains your edited Program.
➆Press [STORE].
The display will show you the “Save Program” screen, with the current bank and number of the Program you are editing on the botttom line (unless you started from a Preset program).
♠Use a combination of the [CONTROLLER D] slider, the [BANK] buttons, the [VALUE] buttons, and the 23 [SELECTION] buttons to select the Program Number you noted in step 5.
❻Press [STORE] again.
The Program is now stored.
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