Alesis QS8.1, QS7.1 Storing AN Individual Program or MIX, Loading AN Individual Program or MIX

Part 9: Extras

STORING AN INDIVIDUAL PROGRAM OR MIX

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 QS Bank format. A Sound Card is formatted whenever an entire QS 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 QS Bank onto it first.

❿Insert a card into PCMCIA Card slot A on the back of the QS. Alesis recommends that you use card slot A for all RAM card storage operations.

❡Select the Program or Mix you wish to transfer to the card.

①Press [STORE].

➃Use the [BANK] buttons to select a bank location on the card to store to (A1–A4). If the card contains a ROM bank, it will show as Bank 1 and you will be unable to store to it.

➄Use the [00] – [120] and [0] – [9] buttons to select a location in the selected card Bank to save to (000–127 if storing a Program; 00–99 if storing a Mix).

➅Press [STORE] to transfer the data from the QS 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 QS, and then save them back onto the card in order to re-format the card using the new format.

LOADING AN INDIVIDUAL PROGRAM OR MIX

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 frequently the case).

Note: If the Mix or Program you wish to transfer uses samples that reside on a ROM card in slot A or B, you must have the ROM card in that same slot after the transfer in order for that portion of the Program or Mix to sound the same (or at all).

162 QS7.1/QS8.1 Reference Manual