Elektron Musical Instruments

wow. good. glad i swallowed my pride and asked. i did not realize you 
can press the red and black button and its realtime record. i was 
just pressing the red and switching with the knob and pressing steps. 
i will experiment with this after i finish this reply. that anwsers 
my question in regard to saving the step assignment. thanks again, 
i'm a little clearer on it. hopefully with practice i can avoid 
losing my sounds ever again:) susan--- In elektron-
users@yahoogroups.com, Joe <jmelnyk@c...> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 01:29:48PM -0000, vampyrecat13 wrote:
> >    by exit record mode i assume you mean
> >    pressing the white stop button? not the exit no button? just 
making
> >    sure im not missing something.
> 
> no. there's two ways to enter record mode: either press the red
> record/copy button and use step programming or press the red and 
black
> (play/clear) button together and enter realtime programming. to exit
> either one, you have to press the red button again (actually, to 
fully
> exit realtime record mode, you have to press it twice). at which 
point,
> your pattern changes are recorded.
> 
> > i have to save my new sounds and also
> >    copy and paste the sequence(pattern- step assignment)?
> 
> I'm not sure what you're describing. but by "save new sounds" you 
mean
> saving the kit I assume. and yes, you have to do that when you 
change
> kit sounds. *however* as I said before, if you don't change kits 
between
> a restart, your tweaked (but unsaved) kit will still be the active 
kit.
> and if you change patterns without saving, you can still use the 
undo
> kit (first kit in the list) to recover the old tweaked-but-unsaved 
kit.
> 
> >    its the
> >    getting around i'm still a little fuzzy on. could you explain, 
theres
> >    kits-which i assume are the sounds and patterns
> 
> patterns and kits are two different things altogether. kits are the
> sounds themselves. patterns are the sequences of kit sounds. kits
> correspond to entries 1 through 64 of the kit menu; patterns 
correspond
> to entries A1-A16, B1-B16, ..., H1-H16 of the "pattern selection" 
menu.
> 
> >    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.
> 
> if you're in extended mode, this will happen. in extended mode, 
kits are
> associated with patterns. in classic mode, you can play any pattern 
with
> any kit you choose.
> 
> >    so thers really two ways to load kits? via the load menu and 
via
> >    pattern selection?
> 
> sort of. I wouldn't look at it as two ways to load kits, though. the
> first method loads a kit, the second one loads a pattern. if you're 
in
> extended mode, then loading that pattern will also load the kit
> associated with that pattern.
> 
> >    as far as the plug that was my fault. as i said my
> >    keyboard knocked it out.
> 
> I've done it before too. I was just commenting on the issue of 
changing
> the MD to fix this problem; it's been discussed in here before.
> 
> >    i was only posting cause i thought people
> >    could sypathize with losing hours of work. otherwise i love
> >    machinedrum.
> 
> I agree on both counts! yes, I have lost work on it too and it 
*really*
> sucks; but I do love it very much.
> 
> sorry if it seems like I'm criticizing you; I'm not. I was just 
confused
> about exactly what you were describing and how your data loss could 
have
> occurred. because to me, it seems like the data may very well have 
been
> there when you restarted, you just might have been unsure of how to
> access.
> 
> >    thanks for your reply, susan
> no problem!
> 
> take care,
> Joe.