How to save Chords from the Pad buttons?

kikedeolivos · Post by **kikedeolivos** » Wed Aug 12, 2009 8:58 pm

Every time I create a chord set on the 4 buttons, save ALL, turn off the M50, turn it ON, load from the SD card, the chords I created are gone: any ideas?

Thanks

Run · Post by **Run** » Wed Aug 12, 2009 10:56 pm

Hi, when you register chords in a program or combi (edit) with the chords buttons, I think you have to write it into the M50 memory . If you load from SD card after turning the unit on, you may loose these parameters unless you have saved these registered prog or combi with their related chords.

kanthos · Post by **kanthos** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 12:52 am

To put it a bit more clearly, it sounds like you're not saving the chord settings into memory on the Korg before you write data from the Korg to the SD card.

To put it another way, say you make a change to the combi in A-000; for example, you change the sound used for timbre 1. As soon as you've changed the sound, go to a new combi, and go back to A-000. Do you expect A-000 to be the version before you changed it, or the version after?

It's the version before you made your change, because the M50 doesn't automatically save your changes as you make them. You wouldn't want this anyway; it'd be too easy to screw up a preset with no way to get it back to how it used to be unless you'd happened to back it up.

What you want to do instead is save your changes before you switch combis.

Also, out of curiosity, why are you writing to the SD card? You probably don't want to be doing that often, unless you're using sequences; I just do it periodically so that I have a backup of my programs and combis.

mocando · Post by **mocando** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 1:58 am

Exactly, save your chord changes with either selecting save combination from the drop down menu, or pressing the save/write button on the sequencer. They will stay put ever if you turn off the M50.

And as Kanthos said, I also use the SD for backups every once in a while. I have every month saved on the BACKUP folder inside the SD. I also put the SD in the PC and backup the SD every time I copy a new downloaded combi, or a midi file from the Internet.

kikedeolivos · Post by **kikedeolivos** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 4:15 am

That's exactly what I'm doing.

Once in the combi and when the recordings are made with the chord buttons, I write (save) the combination.

If I turn off the keyboard, then on and call that Combi, the Chords on the pads are all wrong.