Elektron Musical Instruments

i'm inches away from getting my MD and MnM, so psyched. i've been stuck on the puter 
for the past few years for most of my music work and i've grown very accustomed to 
backing up all my data very regularly. i have backups of my backups. 

does either the MD or MnM have any easy way of backing up data? like say can i take all 
my data for a song and somehow dump it into my computer via MIDI for safe keeping? 
how about my custom patches etc? i don't think i'd be able to sleep at night if i couldn't.

> does either the MD or MnM have any easy way of backing up data? 
like say can i take all 
> my data for a song and somehow dump it into my computer via MIDI 
for safe keeping? 
> how about my custom patches etc? i don't think i'd be able to sleep 
at night if i couldn't.

yes exactly right, they both have these capabilites as you describe. 
they use sysex via midi to accompolish this. you just have to watch 
out for losing the hard copies and for the occasional hard drive 
pooping out on you.
later

--- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, "zebraoner" <zebraoner@y...> wrote:
> > does either the MD or MnM have any easy way of backing up data? 
> like say can i take all 
> > my data for a song and somehow dump it into my computer via MIDI 
> for safe keeping? 
> > how about my custom patches etc? i don't think i'd be able to sleep 
> at night if i couldn't.
> 
> yes exactly right, they both have these capabilites as you describe. 
> they use sysex via midi to accompolish this. you just have to watch 
> out for losing the hard copies and for the occasional hard drive 
> pooping out on you.
> later

Sysex, of course! duh, i didn't even think of that. again, been on the damn computer too 
long. cool.
thanks.

really wish they had some sort of cardslot or a usb port to make archiving data easier.
recording sysex to a sequencer is so 80s..........

Hans

--- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, "tj297" <tj297@y...> wrote:

> --- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, "zebraoner" <zebraoner@y...> wrote:
> > > does either the MD or MnM have any easy way of backing up data? 
> > like say can i take all 
> > > my data for a song and somehow dump it into my computer via MIDI 
> > for safe keeping? 
> > > how about my custom patches etc? i don't think i'd be able to sleep 
> > at night if i couldn't.
> > 
> > yes exactly right, they both have these capabilites as you describe. 
> > they use sysex via midi to accompolish this. you just have to watch 
> > out for losing the hard copies and for the occasional hard drive 
> > pooping out on you.
> > later
> 
> Sysex, of course! duh, i didn't even think of that. again, been on the damn computer too 
> long. cool.
> thanks.

On May 11, 2004, at 1:45 PM, schmackofanz wrote:

> really wish they had some sort of cardslot or a usb port to make 
> archiving data easier.
>  recording sysex to a sequencer is so 80s..........

I don't really find it difficult or a pain, but I record to my computer 
using a small
MIDI recording tool.  it takes about a minute to set up and a minute to 
record and
catalog it.  sure, a cardslot would be better since it's onboard, but 
those things often
take a while to write as well; AND it would drive the cost up even 
more.  plus you'd
still probably want to back up the card.

I don't see the benefit of a USB port built in; I use a MIDI->USB cable 
and it's
effectively the same thing (you still have to cue up the computer to 
capture the
data, as you would with a direct USB connection).

all that said, though, I don't back up as often as I should. I *should* 
do it whenever
I complete a track, but I really only do it when I'm upgrading the OS 
or if my
machine's memory is filling up.

Joe