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Op 12-3-2011 20:14, Jerome St-Pierre schreef:

> But I still have another stupid question. I don't understand how removing
> the battery could affect the patches? Aren't they saved on some kind of hard
> drive? Or are they really kept loaded in memory with the battery?

A hard drive? We're talking about a few kilobytes, at most, of data. 
Even in 1997, when the AN1x first came out, a hard disc would have a 
capacity of several gigabytes, which is in a totally different league.

(1 kilobyte: 1024 bytes; 1 megabyte: 1024 kilobytes; 1 gigabyte: 1024 
megabytes.)

So yes, it's just a little bit of memory backed up by a battery. Today, 
I saw the 'low battery' warning for the first time. Have had the AN1x 
since 1998...

- Peter