Basic Controls
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Waldorf Kyra
If you've made an edit to a RAM Patch and want to quickly
save your change over the existing Patch, simply press the
Store
button four times in a row to update the Patch and
return to the Home page. Be careful when editing ROM
patches (banks H-Z) as it is not possible to store Patches
back in these banks and the Store sequence will default to
A-0. Be sure to select the correct destination Patch in one
of the RAM banks (A-G) during the Store sequence.
Even though you can't store a Patch directly to ROM you
can copy whole Banks of Patches to (and from) ROM using
the Copy Patch Bank function.
Each Part maintains a Patch Edit buffer and Kyra main-
tains a single Multi Edit buffer. As front panel controls are
manipulated, these changes are reflected in the Edit buffer
of the current Part (as shown on the bottom row of the
display). As there is an Edit Buffer per Part, changing the
current Part does not discard the edits you made to the
Part that was selected before but note that changes are not
stored until the store sequence is completed for the spe-
cific Part that was changed.
Storing a Multi does not result in the Patch Edit buffers
being stored; even though you can have all eight Parts with
pending changes it makes sense to store them (or discard
them by recalling the Patch) before you move to the next
Part. If you don't do this, it is easy to lose track of which
Parts you changed and forget to store them. Edit Buffers
(for Parts and Multis) are lost when Kyra is powered
down.
If you edit a Patch that is loaded into more than one Part,
the changes will be reflected in the Edit buffer of all Parts
hosting the Patch. If you want the Patches to be indepen-
dent on each Part, make a copy of the Patch and select it in
to the relevant Part.
Front panel controls are always responsive and any chan-
ges made to a Patch right up until the last stage of the Store
sequence is done will be stored along with the Patch; you
can still make changes (including inadvertent ones) during
the Store Sequence. As Follow Mode is disabled during the
Store sequence, you may not realise you changed some-
thing inadvertently so be careful not to accidentally nudge
any controls. If you do, exit the Store sequence and use
Undo to back out the change before storing the Patch.
Finally, note that it can take a few seconds for Kyra to
commit a Patch or Multi to memory. You can keep playing
and editing other Patches during this time but don't power
Kyra down during this time otherwise you may lose your
changes. This includes changes made by MIDI such as
received SysEx Patch dumps.
