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Quick question about my XP-30, think you can help?

At the moment, I'm too broke to go out and buy a DAT or something to record my beats off my MPC. So, for now I have to just save the sequences and songs I make on a floppy (too broke for a zip drive too) until I get the needed materials. Since I'm also yet to get a memory card for my Roland, problem is, I'm wondering, when I save "Performance" data on my XP-30, I don't know how to load it back up; or is it supposed to do that itself? One more thing about that, is there a way I can save more than one peroformance setting to my internal memory at a time to be recalled?

Re: Quick question about my XP-30, think you can help?

Reply #1 –
Is it just me? or is this forum rapidly diverging from its intended purpose? I see more and more queries about general midi, soundcards, keyboards, recording etc... and less about NoteWorthy.

Certainly there may be a pool of expertise in the readership, but I'm rather surprised at the tolerance of NoteWorthy for the increasing traffic unrelated to the NoteWorthy product (indeed, some even about competing products). What's an XP-30 and how does it relate to this forum? Why don't you ask in a forum hosted by the manufacturers of the product?

On the one hand, it may not be appropriate to blow away anyone who deviates from the straight and narrow. Some excursions (or "ratholes") are inevitable and acceptable, especially if they have some tangible link to NoteWorthy, but I really don't read this forum to learn the ideosyncrasies of J-random XP-30's (what ever that may be!)

Nothing against Lyrikal! Please don't take it personally, your question just happened to be the last straw - "do I have to read yet ANOTHER thread on something completely unrelated to NoteWorthy"?

Re: Quick question about my XP-30, think you can help?

Reply #2 –
John, we try to maintain a "everything in moderation" philosphy on this. Nobody wants to use a forum where most of the discussion is about posts that were deleted, or other posts that weren't but should have been (at least, I hope not). This one isn't near as far off topic as some non-music hardware/software questions, so I don't see the harm in giving it the freedom to develop into something. The title is clear enough as to the nature of the thread. Something productive might come of these discussions. If you don't have, and don't care about, an XP-30, then maybe just ignore posts to this topic.

Now, if the whole forum starts turning into an XP-30 support channel, we will adopt a different stance on this. AN XP-30 is obviously not our product, and I suspect only a small percentage of our customers actually use an XP-30.

Re: Quick question about my XP-30, think you can help?

Reply #3 –
I am familiar with the XP50 and XP80, not the XP30, but I hope this will be of help.

If you save your performance data as part of your sequence, it should indeed automatically re-load whwen you play the sequence. As for saving performance data pro se, you can either write it to one of your user performances. Another easy way of doing it - and this works for individual patches or for the whole user memory - is to save the patch data as "sysex" in a sequence, using the "utilities" facility - even if you don't record a song to go with it - and then recall it simply by pressing the start button on your sequencer. I hope this is not too confusing.

By the way, for me, this question was by no means "off topic", as I find that by far the easiest way of scoring music on NWC is to make a midi file using my XP, then simply importing it to NWC; the quantising feature on XP is such that there is rarely too much "tidying up" to do as a result.
 

Re: Quick question about my XP-30, think you can help?

Reply #4 –
I was getting confused about when you said something
about saving patch data as "sysex". I have no idea
what you meant. Could you please go a little deeper
into detail for me. Maybe I'm completly wrong, which I
really hope I'm not, but it seems as if you were
trying to explain to me a way to save info on my
floppy that could play the whole song back, keyboard
sounds and all, when I load it back up on my MPC
sequencer. True or untrue? Holla back at me.......

You cna e-mail me directly also at lyrikal_inq@yahoo.com