Using SysEx to Store Your Setups
To dump individual Setups or Programs:
1. Connect a MIDI cable from the Out of the PC2 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 “Dump setup …?”.
3. Start the recording on your external device and press Enter on the PC2. The MIDI Receive light will blink and the display will tell when the dump is finished. Once it is finished, stop recording.
This same method works for Programs. Start in Internal Voices Mode, call up the Program you want, press one of the three Sound Parameter buttons, press Store and then the >> button twice. The display will now show “Dump voice …?”.
To load a dump back into the PC2:
1. Connect a MIDI cable from the In of the PC2 to the Out of your external device.
2. Play back the sequence, or initiate the dump playback from your external device. That’s it. You don’t have to put the PC2 in any special mode to receive the dump.
When a dump is sent back to the PC2, the information goes to the memory location for that Setup. It does NOT update the edit buffer, which is where the current Setup is played from. Therefore you have to call up that object after the dump to hear it. For example, let’s say you have dumped Setup #132 previously and have since edited that Setup and have #132 currently called up. If you dump the Setup back into the PC2 and then play the keyboard, you won’t hear the older version – you have to call up the Setup by typing in 132 and Enter on the keypad, or scrolling away and back to it.
It is always a good idea to test your dumping procedure to make sure everything worked correctly, before making massive changes. You wouldn’t want to delete several months of work only to find out the sysex dump wasn’t correctly recorded. A simple way to test to make some easy change and save it, then send the dump back to make sure it is received correctly. For example, you can dump the Setup, then change one letter in the Setup name and save that change. Then dump the Setup back to see if the name changes back to the original. Don’t forget that you have to call up the Setup after dumping it back in.
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