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Originally Posted by switchbitch

I am working with an akai mpc2000xl sequencer. When Ive finished my songA which Ive created with the virus indigo11 in multi single mode I want to save all the sounds exactly as they are then work on a new songB with different sounds once again in multi single mode. So what I want to know is firstly how to store everthing the way it is then how to recall it if I want to work on the songA again later. I have done everything people are telling me and it does not happen. I just get the same songA arrangement but it plays the sounds from the new songB. Do I have to store all the sounds individually and then dial them back manually later if I want to use? This means I would have to write down the numbers so surely this is not the way to do it. Also If I store the sounds from songA or from anything I do,do they not overwrite the original factory preset or whichever one I choose to store it to? But what if I do not want to lose the preset? This seems stupid. Why is there not an empty memory bank to store stuff?

What you need to do is when you are working on the songA multi is while in multi/single mode make sure you store all the seperate single patches, then to go from multi/single mode to multi mode then save the multi as "songA" in a slot.

Then you can go back to multi/single mode, change to the patches you want for song B, save all the single patches if you tweak them, then go back to multi mode and then save that as "songB" in a different slot.

What you have to be aware of is that the multi mode just saves the patch numbers of the seperate singles in it and if you go and change and save those single patches when using them alone in single mode or in another multi then the new version will be the one loaded when you reload the original multi. So if you wnat to tweak a patch for a different multi you have to save that patch in a different slot with a different name. Also, if you tweak a patch while in multi/single and don't save the single patch you will lose those changes if you load a different multi then go back to the original.

Hopefully that helps.