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Presets and Patterns not saving!

Presets and Patterns not saving!

2001-12-18 by erik_magrini@Baxter.com

I was working on a new pattern last night and I ran into an issue with the 
XL-7 not saving Patterns or Presets, even though it said it had!  This was 
the first time I've used OS 1.18 while writing a track, but I don't know 
if that has anythign to do with it.  Anyway, I was working on a Pattern 
and while doing so I created about 5 new Presets.  Each time I saved the 
Presets individually before making the next one, and the Pattern was 
playing back fine.  After working for a couple of hours, a friend stopped 
by so I made sure all the Presets were saved again, then saved the Pattern 
and powered off.  When I powered back on later that night, my pattern 
wasn't sounding anything like it was when I powered off, in fact 
everything that I had done during my last session was gone!  I could see 
it if I forgot to save the Pattern, or maybe one Preset, but I lost all 5 
Presets (and all my new Pattern data), none of them were where I saved 
them (or anywhere in the USER Preset section, I checked thoroughly).  Is 
this just me?  Was I in the Twilight Zone or something?  Has anyone else 
had this happen?  I worked on it again and all was well when it was 
powered off that time, weird.

Also, when I was spinning this weekend at a party, I brought the XL-7 out 
to throw into my set too.  Occasionally, using the data wheel (when set to 
Tempo Edit mode) caused the tempo to increment in values of 100, not 1! 
Obviously this caused havoc with my sound, when my pattern would jump from 
136 to 236 to 36 to 336 while I was trying to keep the XL synced to the 
tables.  It didn't happen but a few times and behaved normally the rest of 
the time, but it was enough to keep from bringing it into the mix again 
after it did this a few times!  Is there a button combination I missed in 
the manual that does this?  I wasn't spinning the wheel fast, just 
incrementing it one click.  I still think we need the tempo to be 
displayed in fractions of a whole number, no one needs a 1000BPM 
range.....

Sigh, I hope my XL-7 isn't bad somehow, maybe I should reload the new OS 
again?

rEalm