[A6] Re: PCMCIA memory cards

[vespine at netspace.net.au]

Quoting "Mark R. Strijbos" <mark.strijbos at hccnet.nl>:
>IMHO this is a good time to get one (or more) 
I knew I should have bought two! Still, anywhere else you find them they are 
US$120, for 2 MB!! Bloody Hell! You get 256MB USB keys for less then that:-)

Quoting Dave Scrimenti <dscrimenti at adelphia.net>:
> Isn't there a program that lets you save A6 patches on your computer so you
> don't have to deal with these expensive memory cards?

As far as I know, you can save patches with any software that can save midi 
sysex data, I started using midiox but then found jsynthlib which I personally 
like better. Both are freely available on the internet. The only problem is 
that recalling saved patches from one of those programs involves a sysex dump 
back into the A6 and even though I haven't had any problems yet, I've heard 
that occasionally it can fail and you have to muck around with settings and if 
you get a corrupt patch you may have to re-initialise and so on. Needless to 
say it takes some time and all your PC and stuff has to be set up and running, 
with a memory card, on the other hand, you just change banks and off you go, 
it's as easy as recalling patches from the preset banks, that's worth the $70 
in my oppinion.
-&e.


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