Losing work on VF-80 after turning the power off

[pinballwizard]

I've been mixing some songs lately and have found that sometimes that when I get all my tracks panned right, get the right volume levels and add effects and then bounce the tracks together I will turn off the VF-80 only to find out later when I turn it back on that , while the tracks are still bounced together, all the panning, volume, EQ, and effects have gone back to default. I have no idea why this is happening, but I think it has something to do with turning the power off when I have that certain song/program up that particular song will lose information, sorta like when you turn off your computer without saving. I have reason to believe this because i have three songs/programs, lets call them Songs A,B, and C. I have turned off both Song A and Song C while they were still up and have consequentially lost everything. For some reason I haven't turned it off while viewing Song B because i go back to A or C again before turning it off. If anyone else has this problem or has an idea please let me know. I am trying to record a whole album of material and I'm only 3 songs in. If I am going to lose my work regardless, I'm just gonna record on my friend's computer.

[billisa]

Originally Posted by pinballwizard

I've been mixing some songs lately and have found that sometimes that when I get all my tracks panned right, get the right volume levels and add effects and then bounce the tracks together I will turn off the VF-80 only to find out later when I turn it back on that , while the tracks are still bounced together, all the panning, volume, EQ, and effects have gone back to default. I have no idea why this is happening, but I think it has something to do with turning the power off when I have that certain song/program up that particular song will lose information, sorta like when you turn off your computer without saving. I have reason to believe this because i have three songs/programs, lets call them Songs A,B, and C. I have turned off both Song A and Song C while they were still up and have consequentially lost everything. For some reason I haven't turned it off while viewing Song B because i go back to A or C again before turning it off. If anyone else has this problem or has an idea please let me know. I am trying to record a whole album of material and I'm only 3 songs in. If I am going to lose my work regardless, I'm just gonna record on my friend's computer.

If you're losing whole songs, or anything BUT settings, something is very wrong.

Settings like EQ, Pan etc have to be saved (I forget on the VF80 how to do this, but it's easy).

But if you're recording, and stop, then turn off the machine, when you turn it on it should return to the beginning of the last song you were working on, without any loss of anything (except unsaved settings). If you're losing what you've recorded, something is totally amiss.

In 5 years of using both the VF80/160, I've never lost a second of music. That's the way the machine is designed. Any less indicates a serious malfunction.