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Loading Operations
Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2007 10:33 pm
by kenackr
I think I have read all the pertinent sections in both the User Guide and the Parameter Guide that deal with disk operations. Specifically, I don't seem able to find how to NOT load LAC-1 and MOD-7 automatically upon startup.
I can't find anything that shows how to move these files out of the load sequence.
Thanks for any help you can share.
Ken
Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 12:30 am
by MrT-Man
Out of curiosity, why would you want to not load them? Simply for faster boot time? It's not going to free up any of the ram, the way that not loading the EX1, EX2, EX3 samples does.
Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 5:25 am
by Mike Conway
Are you trying to free the banks up? You could go to GLOBAL - BASIC, then hit the dropdown menu and change them to HD-1 banks or choose EXi and it should initialize the bank. (The DVD touches on this.)
You can also load another bank from one of your old ALL or Program files and replace the bank.
Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 7:45 am
by MartinHines
You can't. Those instruments (software, not samples) are automatically loaded at startup. The same is true for the HD-1 engine, CX-3 and STR-1.
As Mike C. states above, if you want to free up/erase Program or Combi banks that is possible.
You can read about the impact of loading samples (PCM memory) in the Operation Guide pg. 36 (it doesn't yet include information about EXs3 Brass & Woodwinds (700 MB), but the impact is listed on Korg USA's website (OASYS info)
- EXs-1 and 2 are now loaded into RAM using a new, lossless compression technique. This yields a modest reduction in size: EXs-1 now uses 284 MB instead of 313 MB, and EXs-2 uses 464 MB instead of 503 MB. With 2 GB installed and both EXs loaded, this increases the available user sampling RAM by about 68 MB. You’ll notice that this is much milder than the dramatic size reductions of mp3, or the PCM compression sometimes found in other synthesizers. There is a strong advantage over these other methods, however: the OASYS compression is completely lossless, and causes absolutely no degradation in audio quality whatsoever.
Note: This compression applies only to EXs samples, and not to RAM samples.
Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 4:31 pm
by kenackr
I got the impression one could do this from a response that Dan made to my "what to do when banks are full?" thread as follows:
"For projects, I tend to copy all sounds to my own banks; I keep User-A as an HD-1 bank, and User-B as an EXi bank. I can then load anything into any of the other banks, with no fear of overwriting anything that I've been using or editing. "
I apparently misunderstood this to mean he had emptied the remaining user banks (at least LAC & MOD-7).
Mike, thanks for the tip on initializing the user banks.
I had also been looking for a way to initialize programs but only one at a time. Do you know of a way to do that?
Ken
Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 5:45 pm
by Daz
kenackr wrote:Initialize programs but only one at a time. Do you know of a way to do that?
The Oasys doesn't provide a way of doing this directly; instead just load an individual init program from disk (from a suitable PCG file) or copy an initialized program from another Program bank.
It's another one of Korg's "anti-programmer" features
Daz.
Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 6:24 pm
by danatkorg
Daz wrote:kenackr wrote:Initialize programs but only one at a time. Do you know of a way to do that?
The Oasys doesn't provide a way of doing this directly; instead just load an individual init program from disk (from a suitable PCG file) or copy an initialized program from another Program bank.
It's another one of Korg's "anti-programmer" features
Daz.
You can initialize any of the USER banks by setting the user bank type. This function might be better named as "initialize bank," since that's exactly what it does: it creates a blank set of HD-1 or EXi Programs.
- Dan