I’m getting “MnM Anxiety”: you have 2 or 3 parts sounding good but the fear is mounting that you’ll overwrite a good pattern or alter a working machine and can’t get it back.
Yesterday I changed the output bus of a machine, pressed Enter and it set the machine parameters to the defaults. Not amusing, but I could put the settings back quickly. Its like a survival horror game, you want to save every few seconds in case you die.
What do you do to safely save work in case you have a tourettes moment and lose something good?
When loading a new machine (sid, beatbox, reverb etc) if you press function + enter you won’t revert to default and it will save your current parameter settings. Just an FYI.
As for tips for not losing your stuff, just be mindful at all times. If you’ve had too many drinks or whatever, sober up.
Save to new kits and other patterns. I usually cycle through 4-8 kit versions when working on one kit (not on the MnM at the moment but anyways). Save to new, save to new, once it reaches about 8 versions, overwrite the first. These little stars help identifying candidates to be overwritten. I don’t care so much about patterns, but you could just use say patterns 13-16 in each bank for the purpose of storing intermediate versions.
You can basically save one kit per pattern with the MNM and MDUW, so if paranoia gets the best of you, just save everything separately as different kits linked to patterns. Really not an issue with the +Drive.
I usually try to use one kit for every four patterns (trying to keep some consistency with the OT parts), and change up patterns and use p-locks to add variation as I progress. I tend to save religiously as I go, having lost great things to the ether before. I also just accept that I’m going to lose things along the path of creation, and that goes doubly so for the first six months that I use anything from Elektron . Breathe deep and start again.
Yes, all good ideas. Although the word “backup” needs definition. There is no backup really, but there is +Drive and sysex copying with C6 and those can both go wrong (see below). You can also save the pattern to a new slot and save the kit to a new slot too. This seems like the best for me. I am reserving H row for work in progress and kits 113-128 for the matching kits now.
I’ve had to deal with loss in the past:-
Used C6 to capture the entire MnM and saved the file, then found it didn’t restore everything. Check the count of kits and patterns after receiving sysex!
Used +drive on a MD-UW and loaded a bank, then realised I hadn’t saved the current bank first. Whole year of noodles gone.
Bump the steps keys while in record mode. Come on, eternal damnation for that?
. Breathe deep and start again.
