Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

When you’re in combo mode, there are 2 kinds of changes you can make, if you look at it with this distinction in mind. You can make changes to the combo level features to each part \u2013 tempo, transpose, mode (how many voices per part), clock div, etc. But you can also then go and make changes to the sounds \u2013 filter cutoff for the sound in part 1, or vca level for the sound in part 2, etc. These are the changes that you normally save when you save a program in program mode. Some of the basic sequencer parameters are found on both levels \u2013 temp/clock division of the sequencer, for instance.

Ok \u2013 So, suppose you\u2019ve started to work this way.....I discovered this when I wanted to mess around with an identical program/sequence in 2 of the parts, and then start making changes to various parameters.

Well, you\u2019ve made a bunch of changes and it sounds really good, or really bad (I sometimes like to save some of my most profoundly bad stuff in case I ever get employed by the CIA), and you want to save some of the program edits and sequencer changes. Well, you can\u2019t do it. There is no way. The combo level stuff will save with the combo, but there is no way to save the stuff that changes the sound itself, or anything to do with specific steps of the sequencer, any modulations, etc...But don\u2019t make the mistake of saving the combo, or you will lose everything right there, except for the combo stuff \u2013 the programs you will save will be the originals, not the edited versions.

It\u2019s also a mistake when you\u2019re working this way to change any of several parameters that give basic information about the structure of that combo part. If you decide to use 2 voices in channel 2, for instance, rather than 1, that will reinitialize all of the programs in all of the parts to their settings when they were first loaded into the combo part. Same with calling up another sound for part 4.

These issues effect your enjoyment only to the degree to which you want to edit and save your work in combo mode.




\u201cHI,

I am thinking of getting a PEK and this thread is worrying me slightly.

Can I check I have this correct in my head.

If I have a combo with 4 different programs, I fiddle with the knobs to set everythng up as I like, then I cannot save this work?

Also If I load a different program I loose all my changes?

Have I got this correct?

Thanks

Andy\u201d



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