Alesis QS8.1, QS7.1 manual More about Sram Cards, Sram Cards and MIX Mode

Part 9: Extras

MORE ABOUT SRAM CARDS

As mentioned before, all card bank storage/retrieval should be carried out in slot A. This assures that when the bank is loaded back into the User bank from the card, the Programs and Mixes within the User bank will be able to find the samples and Programs which originally resided on a card in the A or B slot. This is particularly important for Sounds (samples) which point to the A slot. If the banks are stored to slot B and then reloaded, Programs which used to look to the A slot will look to the B slot for their samples.

Note: If this is done by accident, the SRAM card can be taken out of slot B, placed in slot A, and the bank in question can be loaded into the User bank. This will properly point the Sounds to both the A and B slot.

SRAM CARDS AND MIX MODE

When a Mix is created using Card programs, it counts the number of banks on slot A's card before assigning a number to the first bank on slot B's card. If you remove Card A and then call up the Mix in question, each MIDI channel within the Mix which originally pointed to a Card bank will have its Program Bank number altered by the number of banks which were on Card A. In this example, the Mix will automatically add that number to the Card Program banks within the Mix and point all of those Programs to the wrong place. In other words, if Card A had one bank on it and is removed after the Mix is stored, a Channel within a Mix which used to point to Card A-1 will point to Card B-1, B-1 will point to B-2, and so on.

Likewise, if you plug a Card into slot A when none had been there at the time you stored the Mix, the Card banks within the Mix will be decremented by the same number of banks that exist on the Card you plugged into slot A. If a single-banked ROM card is plugged into slot A in this scenario, then within the Mix Bank B-1 would become A-1, B-2 would become B-1, and so on.

If you plug a Card into Slot A which has more banks than the Card which used to be there, this effect will be even more pronounced. For example, plugging an SRAM Card which has 4 banks into slot A when a ROM card with one bank had been there before will throw the Card Bank indicators off by 3 banks.

Note: this does not affect channels within the Mix which had been pointing to User or Preset Program banks.

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