Owner`s manual

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Patch List
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2 Patch List with MP3s for background music during an intermission.
3 Patch List with matrix programs, when you're not necessarily using the player of the
MULTISTATION but need to control your keyboards, MIDI sound modules or effect
devices through MIDI.
Patch lists provide comprehensiveness, because only the program parts that are needed for a specific context are
displayed.
5.1 ...and what does this mean?
To operate the MULTISTATION, it is very important that you understand the concept of the patch list. Please
remember this: a patch list comprises the commands. The data are not contained here; however, a patch list tells the
MULTISTATION where the needed files can be found. A patch list contains only the patches. Consequently, a patch is
nothing more than a program location. The settings and parameters that you need for the corresponding program are
saved in the individual patches of a patch list.
To illustrate this, look at this practical example: You have bought a disk which contains a STANDARD MIDI FILE
(SMF). You would like to play this SMF on the MULTISTATION. To do so, you set up a song title into the patch list
and then save it. (You will learn how to do this in chapter 7.6 - Creating and Saving a new Patch List - on page 40.)
Now, you can shut down the MULTISTATION and take it to the stage.
When you turn the device on and recall the patch list, it will contain the entry of the song name. You can select the
song and click on [Play] to actually play it. Now a small mental barrier that you have to take: This applies as long as
the disk with the song is in the floppy-drive, because in this illustration the patch list has fixed the disk as the storage
location. If you forget the disk, you will not be able to play the song.
Of course, you may choose to proceed like this, and there are definitely musicians who load their MULTISTATION
with disks (since several MIDI songs can be saved on a disk). Nevertheless, it is easier to transfer all MIDI files to the
hard disk, and then only create the patch lists. The hard disk then becomes the storage location for every patch and you
do not have to worry about (forgotten) disks.
Please notice also that it does not matter where the songs are stored physically (on the hard disk, floppy disk, zip or
jazz drive, or even on a CD). You may, for example, store on the hard disk any number of directories (sub-folders), in
the same way you might know from working with a computer. You can save your songs there, maybe sorting them by
titles, music style or even tempo or another criterion. If you have several hard disks connected (this is possible), your
songs might be distributed among all hard disks. The sequence of the songs on the hard disk and their actual storage
location are unimportant for work with the MULTISTATION. It is only in the patch list that you can bring the songs
into a certain sequence and save them into a program. You may also put a song several times into a patch list, and on