Elektron Musical Instruments

im still somewhat of a newb though i abhore that word. maybe i lost 
the tweaks cause i changed patterns? i don't know. no. of course i 
wasnt running the real time record button for hours! i was turning 
the knobs creating different sounds, then assigning(recording-
whatever) them to steps. by exit record mode i assume you mean 
pressing the red record button? not the exit no button? just making 
sure im not missing something. i have to save my new sounds and also 
copy and paste the sequence(pattern- step assignment)? its the 
getting around i'm still a little fuzzy on. could you explain, theres 
kits-which i assume are the sounds and patterns which to me are the 
sequences or the 16/32 steps that play when turned on. but if ive 
loaded a kit via the load kit menu then choose say pattern A 4 and, 
my kit doesnt play back a different kit with the A 4 i loaded plays. 
so thers really two ways to load kits? via the load menu and via 
pattern selection? as far as the plug that was my fault. as i said my 
keyboard knocked it out. i was only posting cause i thought people 
could sypathize with losing hours of work. otherwise i love 
machinedrum. thanks for your reply, susan --- In elektron-
users@yahoogroups.com, Joe <jmelnyk@c...> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 04:07:27AM -0000, vampyrecat13 wrote:
> >    well my daily deletion just occurred! i spent the past hour 
tweakin
> >    sounds on md and my comp. keyboard accidentally tapped the 
power plug
> >    and md lost power and so lost all my tweaks yet again. 
yesterday it
> >    was not saving the SEQUENCE and rememeber save each pattern 
when you
> >    make changes, very frustrating to lose hours of work. i wish 
they
> >    would implement a save prompt into the thing.  also a power 
plug that
> >    stays in better.
> 
> what kind of tweaking were you doing that you hadn't saved your 
pattern
> for hours?  it saves every time you exit record mode. so were you 
just
> running the realtime recorder for hours and hours while tweaking?
> 
> or did you mean that your *kit* tweaks hadn't been saved? this 
would also
> confuse me because kit tweaks aren't dumped when you restart, only 
when
> you change kits (or load a new pattern with a different kit). when
> you're in pattern mode, that is.
> 
> I agree about the plug, though. it would be nice if they had those
> little plastic dealies that you wrap your power cable around; the 
ones
> that are attached to the chasis, adjacent to the A/C socket. but in 
all
> fairness, their plug is nothing out of the ordinary. and if you 
want to
> modify your MD, you could certainly attach something to hold the 
plug in
> place. actually, with no modifications at all you could probably do 
it.
> just find the appropriate screw for the rack-ear holes, screw it 
3/4 of
> the way in and wrap your power cable around it a couple of times. :-
)
> 
> Joe