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While flipping through the great tome known to many as the User Manual for my newly-purchased QS7.1, I discovered a section on SysEx dumps of programs and banks via either a MIDI connection or the serial port on the back of the QS7.1.
Doing a little digging, I found out about and downloaded a free program from Alesis's site called Freeloader, which is apparently designed to provide a way to receive and send SysEx data from a computer's hard drive.
My question is, assuming you use Freeloader to dump a bank from your synthesizer to hard disk, can you later send it back to the synth? There are instructions in the User Manual for transmitting from, but not loading into, the synthesizer. If so, how is it done?
The main reason I am interested in doing this is that, once I start editing/creating Programs, I may eventually want to re-load the original user bank to get at some of the sounds that I may have deleted (I actually downloaded the factory user bank from Alesis' site). Also, this method of storage is far less expensive than using SRAM cards.
While flipping through the great tome known to many as the User Manual for my newly-purchased QS7.1, I discovered a section on SysEx dumps of programs and banks via either a MIDI connection or the serial port on the back of the QS7.1.
Doing a little digging, I found out about and downloaded a free program from Alesis's site called Freeloader, which is apparently designed to provide a way to receive and send SysEx data from a computer's hard drive.
My question is, assuming you use Freeloader to dump a bank from your synthesizer to hard disk, can you later send it back to the synth? There are instructions in the User Manual for transmitting from, but not loading into, the synthesizer. If so, how is it done?
The main reason I am interested in doing this is that, once I start editing/creating Programs, I may eventually want to re-load the original user bank to get at some of the sounds that I may have deleted (I actually downloaded the factory user bank from Alesis' site). Also, this method of storage is far less expensive than using SRAM cards.