The Sirius and MIDI
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Data-Dumping - Storing your Data!
How to Data-Dump:
Very, very important!
As a safety measure you should regularly 'data-Dump' (data-save) the sounds,
patterns and songs you created in the Sirius to an external sequencer or MIDI-file-player. You will do
yourself and your carefully composed pieces a great favour. Even professionals in the heat of the mo-
ment can delete or overwrite sounds, patterns and sometimes even whole songs! A Data-Dump is
also required when the memory of the Sirius is full and you want to store your work permanently
onto an external device.
The Data-Dump-functions are located in the Write-menu of the Sirius from page 8 onwards. The
Sirius offers four different forms of Data-Dump:
The Momentum-Data-Dump sends all currently set Parameters of the Sirius. Even the parameters
that are not stored yet. These are: the sound setting, bank and number; all system parameters from
the System menu, common-parameters (pad-allocation, sequencer-tempo, groove-settings, effects-
settings, Vocoder-settings, Arpeggiator-settings) and Mix settings. You could call the Momentum-
Data-Dump a 'snapshot' of the current status of the device.
The Sound data-Dump stores the maximum no. of 480 Sirius sounds which have been stored in the
User-bank, the settings of the Percussion-sets and the Arpeggiator-motions.
The Song-data-Dump contains all stored User-motifs, User-patterns (P0-P99), Mix-parameters and
songs. A finished stored song contains the sequence of the song, the Sequencer-tempo, the Groove-
settings, the effects settings of FX-1 and FX-2, the Vocoder-settings and the Arpeggiator-Settings.
When you select All-data-Dump, a Sound- and a Song-data-Dump will be sent immediately one af-
ter the other.
In the following section we will explain to you step by step how you can Data-Dump Sirius data onto
a computer using Cubase. This procedure should be much the same for all good-quality sequencing
software, as the principle is the same.
Should you not have any sequencer-software installed on your computer you might want to use a
special Back-up programme. These programmes are mainly (as shareware and freeware) available
free of charge. One of those programmes is for example “Dumpster” for the PC which you can get
from our home page on the Internet.
When performing a Data-Dump always make sure that the MIDI-Out socket of the Sirius is con-
nected to the MIDI-IN socket of your computer or MIDI-inferface. Only then can the data of the
Sirius get to your computer.
1. Momentum-Data-Dump (Write-menu, page 9):
2. Sound-Data-Dump (Write-menu, page 10):
3. Song-data-Dump (Write-menu, page 11):
4. All-Data-Dump (Write-menu, page 12):
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