MIDI Transfer and Storage Operations: Chapter 9
Card Storage RAMifications
Whenever you transfer an internal Bank to a RAM card, the result is that all Mixes in the transferred Bank are changed so that they now access the Programs on the card bank to which the User bank was saved (since they reside there, now), instead of the Programs from the original internal Bank. And, when a Card Bank is transferred to an internal Bank location, the opposite happens – all Programs within a Mix which had previously accessed card bank 1 (the ROM card) now point to the User bank.
However, a problem can arise when you have one or more Mixes in the Bank you are transferring which use Programs already on the Card. Example: Let's say Mix 00 in the User Bank uses a Program that’s located in Card Bank 1. If the User Bank is transferred to the Card Bank 1, the result will be that Mix 00 in Card Bank 1 now uses only Programs from Card Bank 1. If later you transfer the entire Bank back into the QuadraSynth Plus, you will find that Mix 00 no longer uses the Program on the Card as it was originally programmed to.
Here’s a few ways to avoid this problem. First, always transfer to a Card Bank that does not include any Programs used by the Mixes in the Bank you are transferring from. In other words, if we transferred the Bank into Card Bank 2, we would not have a problem, since the Mix would still be using the Program in Card Bank 1. When this Bank is transferred back to the QuadraSynth, the Mix will still use the Program in Card Bank 1.
Another way to avoid this problem is to transfer the Bank to a Card Bank, and then immediately store the individual Mix onto the Card by itself. When a Mix is stored individually to a Card, it is not modified in any way ; i.e. if it used Programs in the internal Banks, it will still use them even though the Mix and its Programs are in two different locations (the Mix is on the Card but the Programs it uses are stored in the internal Banks).
Finally, you could avoid this situation by always making sure your Mixes use only Programs located in the same Bank it is stored in. This could mean individually storing some Programs from a RAM Card into one of the internal Banks. Although this is very limiting, it makes things much simpler in the long run.
Saving Programs via MIDI Sys Ex
As an alternative to storing data to a card, the QuadraSynth Plus lets you transmit internal data via MIDI System Exclusive messages. This data can be sent to a storage device, or recorded into a MIDI sequencer, or sent to another QuadraSynth Plus or S4. You have a choice of sending any single Program in the User bank (00 to 127), or what is in the current Program Edit buffer, or what is in any of the 16 Mix Edit Program buffers, or the entire User bank (100 Mixes, 128 Programs, 128 Effects Patches) plus Global data. In the case of sending data to another QuadraSynth Plus, you can send any individual Program to the same location or any other location in the receiving QuadraSynth Plus, including any of its 17 Program Edit buffers.
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