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

On Sunday, March 24, 2002, at 03:34 PM, rob99brown wrote:

> Indeed!  Still cant work it out.  Pressing pattern mode does not
> help, though going from pattern to song back to pattern seems to do
> the trick.
>
> Now I'm having the opposite problem though, trying to save a preset,
> the machine keeps prompting me to save a pattern!

I'm not exactly sure what is going on for you, but when you press the 
Save button and even if the screen defaults to Save Pattern you can 
always scroll to the Save Preset item and do that. The screen just pops 
to the item within the Save menu that the system thinks is the 'most 
likely' thing you meant to save. But nothing is stopping you from saving 
anything else if you choose it manually.

If the Pattern is 'dirty' (i.e. needs saving) it will show an * in the 
name. Note that many things that you do mark the sequence as dirty 
because most everything you do is potentially saved as MIDI events in 
the sequence. If you are just playing and don't intend on 'recording' 
the changes, just don't save even though technically the sequence is 
'dirty'.

If you are getting the Save Preset screen when  you the Save button and 
you don't think you edited the Preset it is probably because you have 
Knobs Preset Quick Edit feature turned on, which means that whenever you 
move a Knob it is editing the Initial Controller Amounts of the Preset. 
You can turn that off if that is not what you want. It is a feature 
designed for people that want to tweak the sound using the knobs and 
then save the changes quickly as a snapshot of the 'current modulations' 
of the current preset.

Scott