If you hold down both cursor keys while you power it up, it will boot to a diagnostic menu. The last few options initialize the box. I name my modified patches with the pattern number and sometimes use my own category prefix (the bit before the : can be edited).
I stopped moving patches since the above sorts them and the (other) sequencer loads them. CS will to, of course.
Google Tarekith and Command Station for a list of among other things, power on function keys.
I've never successfully transferred a MIDI song from one device to another with a good musical result. I figure the songs sound a little like the sequencer that made them.
Scott
Thanks for your efforts.
I played back and recorded some of the patterns (as mid files) in Cubase, going to try to see what's wrong.
I also created some new files from an empty slot - named without unusual characters from the get go - and nothing out of the ordinary. The emu loader won't recognize it as a valid midi file either. I will try to record the midi file back from Cubase into the MP7 in an empty slot and see if that makes a difference.
Cubase can explode the midi file into channels, so hopefully the MP7 will accept (record) the file just fine to use for backup purposes.
Off topic sort of - - I started off just saving user presets with the same altered name only in a user slot. Quickly realized that this was a mess and I was unable to determine which User preset slots were used in a pattern and which are old/ unused. I figure I will start out with some sort of Naming system where I use first characters to reconize a saved preset in a Pattern. Is there a way to clear/ initialize all user presets? Probably a lot of the problem here is that the Command Station was filled with user presets already with no name changes so it was hard to tell what is used where.