How do you use your SD card?

MIDIbox SEQ
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Interested in how MIDIboxers use their memory. The main reason for asking is if interior SD cards are okay, or whether it’s really needed to have a card on the rear or front panel.

Thanks for participating.

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(other midiboxes)

rackmount-frontpanel

desktop-backpanel

  • i remove sd-card often to backup songs/sets to the Laptop… to often to screw up the the chassies.

  • i dont use usb to  backup sd-card content nor anything else with.

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I have a computerless synth corner built around the MBSEQv4, so the SD card needs to be removable to change the hw settings for example.

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Same here, for me it is very useful to be able to quickly remove the cards and e.g. swap them between my two MBSEQs to exchange data without the need of a computer, but also for the mbloopa (yes, still in use :-)), where one can extract the saved MIDI tracks. Also, i prefer the backup procedure to put SD cards into a card reader and perform a full partition backup to using the file explorer in MIOS Studio (which is great, but not ideal for that usecase).

Of course, all would also be possible also with inaccessible SD-cards using a computer, but I actually moved the windows machine away lately, as i don’t use it anymore (at the moment) - dawless fun :-).

Many greets!
Peter

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I agree, I do not use my gear that much lately, but physical access to the SD card is crucial for me.