Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

On Nov 19, 2009, at 13:37, bobsvitilla wrote:

> I read somewhere about arps not surviving when some sort of function was performed but I don't quite remember what it was. Something to do with, if the machine locks up and you have to perform something to get it working again the user arps are gone. Are you saying the XL-1 looses its user created arps every time you power down or just if it locks up.

i tested arp editing on a Mo'Phatt which worked as expected.
but there is something that makes me wonder...i can edit an arp pattern, switch to another arp pattern and load the previous edited arp pattern again just fine. this suggests that the memory management of the device goes beyond just managing ane preset/arp slot for every channel (in which case every item would be overwritten whenever you change a preset or arp on a channel).
also, it doesnt matter which arp pattern i edit (0..99), they all dont survive the reboot. this (and the fact that i can edit presets just fine) suggests that there is a seperate flash memory for the user arp patterns which (in my case) fails to do write operations.

anyone has another idea/more info/the same problem?

> Is there any way to back up user arps to a computer?

sure, you can use any "sysex to file" tool (midiox (win), sysex librarion (mac)) to get a backup.
)an