PC88 Made Easy
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26. Using SysEx to Store Your Setups
If you start to edit your own Setups, you will want to store them externally, in case
anything happens to your battery backed memory, or you need to create more Setups
than you have room for in the PC88. Since the PC88 does not have its own disk drive,
you must save this info by sending a system exclusive dump to an external device such
as a sequencer or sysex recorder.
You can either dump the entire memory in one shot, or you can dump individual Setups.
To dump the entire memory:
1.
Connect a MIDI cable from the Out of the PC88 to the In of your external device.
2.
Press the Global button, then press the >> button until you see ÒDump all Setups?Ó in
the display.
3.
Start the recording on your external device and press Enter on the PC88. The MIDI
Receive light will blink and the display will show you the Setups being dumped. Once it
is finished, stop recording.
A note for K2000/K2500 users: The sequencer in the K2000/K2500 can only allow
songs up to 64k. A dump of the entire PC88 memory is larger than 64k. So you canÕt use
this method. Instead you must dump individual Setups. If you need to dump all 128
Setups, you can put half of them in one song and half in another.
To dump individual Setups:
1.
Connect a MIDI cable from the Out of the PC88 to the In of your external device.
2.
Call up the Setup you want to Dump. Press the Store button, then press the >> button
twice. The display will now show ÒDump setup ...?Ó.
3.
Start the recording on your external device and press Enter on the PC88. The MIDI
Receive light will blink and the display will tell when the dump is finished. Once it is
finished, stop recording.
To load a dump back into the PC88:
1.
Connect a MIDI cable from the In of the PC88 to the Out of your external device.
2.
Play back the sequence, or initiate the dump playback from your external device.
ThatÕs it. You donÕt have to put the PC88 in any special mode to receive the dump.
When a dump is sent back to the PC88, the information goes to the memory location for
that Setup. It does NOT update the edit buffer. Therefore you have to call up that Setup
after the dump to hear it. For example, letÕs say you have dumped Setup #65 previously
