User Guide

PC2 Made Easy

33. Using SysEx to Store Your Setups

If you start to create your own Setups, Programs, and Effects, you will want to store

them externally, in case anything happens to your battery backed memory, or you need

to create more Setups than you have room for in the PC2. Since the PC2 does not have

its own disk drive, you must save this info by sending a system exclusive dump to an

external device such as a sequencer or sysex recorder.

You can either dump the entire User memory in one shot, or you can dump individual

Setups or Programs. (None of the presets are dumped, only what you edit and saave

yourself.)

To dump the entire memory:

1. Connect a MIDI cable from the Out of the PC2 to the In of your external device.

2. Press the Global button, then press the >> button until you see ÒDump all objects?Ó in

the display.

3. Start the recording on your external device and press Enter on the PC2. The MIDI

Receive light will blink and the display will show you the Setups being dumped. Once it

is finished, stop recording.

A note for K2000/K2500/K2600 users: The sequencer in the K2000/K2500/K2600 can

only allow songs up to 64k. A dump of the entire PC2 memory is larger than 64k. So you

canÕt use this method. Instead you must dump individual objects.

To dump individual Setups or Programs:

1. Connect a MIDI cable from the Out of the PC2 to the In of your external device.

2. Call up the Setup you want to Dump. Press the Store button, then press the >> button

twice. The display will now show ÒDump setup ...?Ó.

3. Start the recording on your external device and press Enter on the PC2. The MIDI

Receive light will blink and the display will tell when the dump is finished. Once it is

finished, stop recording.

This same method works for Programs. Start in Internal Voices Mode, call up the

Program you want, press one of the three Sound Parameter buttons, press Store and

then the >> button twice. The display will now show ÒDump voice ...?Ó.

To load a dump back into the PC2:

1. Connect a MIDI cable from the In of the PC2 to the Out of your external device.