How to backup your +Drive Sound library in one file

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#1

I just discovered this and tested it by formatting my drive then loading everything back from C6.

1 . Go to Sound Manager (Function + Sound)
2. Tap the first trig two times and all the trigs will light up.
3. Press the right arrow and choose ‘Select All’
4. you will get a message ‘#### sounds selected’
5. Scroll to bottom of same menu and choose send sysex. (make sure C6 is recieving before you do this)
6. Save your file. your +Drive sound library is now backed up.

strange that this is not in the manual or update notes.

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#2

Nice find. :slight_smile:

#3

Yeah it’s one of those things that a lot of people don’t use but they should.
I bet 99% of the users on here don’t know this is even possible, because when others were asking about this no one had an answer.

#4

Excellent, thanks!

#5

This should be made sticky on the forum ,

#6

Thank you for this!

#7

thanxx mate, that helps a lot.
anyone know here how to backup all patterns incl. all?

#8

I think you need to backup “All Project”.
Patterns should be a part of current project AFAIR.

#9

ok i will try this. thanxx and have a nice sunday;)

#10

Did they remove this function (nothing happens for me when i tap the trigger like described.)

Anyone know if it’s possible to somehow backup the +drive sounds by some other means (i have overbridge)… thanks.

#11

The behavior has changed a little. if you go into sound manager and all the LED’s are lit (1-16) the everything is already selected. if just one is lit then hit it and all should light up. then follow the same procedure.

just tested, works as expected

#12

thanks, it seems to work.

#13

This is so helpful thanks, had my a4 for a month now feel fairly comfortable with it apart from the library hierarchy just find it really confusing hopefully in Overbridge this will be easier, I wish each bank of sounds had a header. is this possible?

#14

Oh lord. Thanks for this! I was totally just doing All Sounds in the project not realizing I hadn’t backed up all 1609 sounds on my A4. Hahaha. I wonder if restoring them would restore to the same banks and slots as they came from.

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#15

This is great thanks but how do I now copy all of this to my second A4?

#16

I have the same question as @amnesia and @slicetwo - how would one go about restoring or uploading to a new/clean A4. There is no “receive sysex” in the sound manager menu…

Edit: found it, it’s in global–>sysexdump–>sysexreceive–>+drivesound