Z1 user patches

street · Post by **street** » Wed Nov 08, 2017 7:52 am

I read in some places there's place for 4096 user presets.

what does it mean? I'll get a PCMCIA card and? how does it work? how do you access them? everything will be loaded at the same time?

michelkeijzers · Post by **michelkeijzers** » Wed Nov 08, 2017 10:49 am

I doubt you can load so many patches simulatenously, however with for example PCG Tools, you can combine programs from various files and create your favorites. Or have multiple files you load when needed.

street · Post by **street** » Wed Nov 08, 2017 5:26 pm

Thank you. is it from experience or a best estimation?
I understood you can load tens of globals on the pcmcia, no load time. I might be wrong.

street · Post by **street** » Wed Nov 08, 2017 11:44 pm

I found some info about this:

The Z1 offers 256 internal slots for single sounds (called programs), arranged in two banks, A and B. Inserting a PC card, it can make two more banks directly accessible via a dedicated button.

The card provides much more space (4MB in total), and can host up to 15 so called card areas. Each card area hosts two banks. A card area switch hidden in the global menu lets the user define which of the 15 card areas is accessible directly from the synths front panel. This means that 512 sound programs are directly accessible (256 internal, one card area), while the card can host 3584 further sounds (14 remaining banks).
This means it is possible to have up to 4096 sounds available in the synth.