Bank Stick Formatting?

MIDIbox SID
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As I recall when I inititially installed my bank stick it took a while to format and I think it had 64 pre programmed patches notice I said “I think”… Anyway I think I need to reformat it since I cannot save any patches to it… I go to the Save menu and all I get is the following…

E#  do!

E—

I followed the guideline on the stereo sid “First steps” but am unale to save… When I scroll thru the the patches I get the default Lead Patch and all the rest are blank… Oh BTW the Stereo SID rocks… I have not been able to mess with it much since I am a stay at home dad with my 11 month old son so time is a rarity for me…

2

You have to press the button under the “do!”

Maybe this should be renamed “Doh!”  ;D

3

You have to press the button under the “do!”

Maybe this should be renamed “Doh!”  ;D

Try’d that and nothing…

This is what happens…

When pushing the 1st button E001 will flash with an underscore under the 2nd “0”… When I turn the encoder I get E— with an underscore under the 2nd “-”… SHould I not be able to dial in the bank# with the encoder?

4

Oops…

You are in the Ensemble menu and therefore saving an Ensemble, not the patch itself.

Saving a patch is via the “SAV” menu at the far right in the main menu… i.e. “OSC FIL LFO ENV … SAV”

5

right, and the described behaviour is typical when no “suitable” bankstick is found. So you probably have only one bankstick connected - for saving ensembles, you need a separate additional bankstick.

S

6

Oops…

You are in the Ensemble menu and therefore saving an Ensemble, not the patch itself.

Saving a patch is via the “SAV” menu at the far right in the main menu… i.e. “OSC FIL LFO ENV … SAV”

How do I get out of the Ensemble menu? I am going into the main menu and entering SAV…

Here is the sequence of what I am doing…

E001|A004 Ld  Chn. 1

1***|<empty>

Hit the first button get the following…

Ensemble: E001*

SID CLK FIL INS EXT SAV

Now I press the button under SAV and get the following…

E#  do!

E001

Hit the button (2nd button) under do! get the following

–Save Ensemble–

Then it flash’s back to…

E#  do!

E001

Obviously I am not doing something right… I have a bankstik plugged in that will hold 64 patches that are all empty so it must be working…

Thanks…

7

Hit the first button get the following…

Instead, hit the second to tenth button to get to the main menu.

8

Instead, hit the second to tenth button to get to the main menu.

Thanks again Wilba… That did it…