Save all?

krusty4president · 2015-02-19T06:07:29.000Z

Hi. I am working on a live set and am semi-noob on the A4. What still puzzles me a lot is saving. I cant get a real grip on how to save all and get back to exactly the same state again.
Right now I have the kit, all tracks and effects and patterns the way i want it. Now i would like to save all this and next week be able to load all up exactly as this again.
Many times before i thought i saved nothing sounds the same.

krusty4president · 2015-02-19T07:33:32.000Z

Throwing out a question here, would my best bet be to save the entire project and the go for a new project when I need to get back to the exact same state of patterns, sounds kits tracks fx and so on?

4.33 · 2015-02-19T07:53:05.000Z

No. A project is too slow to load live. You need to organize your work by using banks, using 1 bank for 1-4 songs. After you save - you can tweak it all live as you want and always reload to the saved state quickly, be it a pattern, sound or kit.

tsoun · 2015-02-19T08:20:13.000Z

I just asked almost the same question here:

How to store a song performance on A4? Analog Keys/Four

Hi all, how do you store your song performance on Analog Four? What I would like to have is that I have a song that I can perform and isn’t destroyed in any way later on (while editing sounds or so) and I could store it on the machine to be performed any time. I have got into conclusion that I should make a new project for each song? I hope I’m totally wrong This pattern,track,song,sound, kit mess makes me crazy. I don’t really know how to store / save them properly. BTW: doe…

So project is not an option?

Let’s say I make two songs that use same sounds and kits. If I tweak a sound or the kit itself, it changes the both songs.

It’s strange that this cannot be avoided in other ways than making a separate projects. I didn’t have time to test the “song=project” theory on my A4 but I have to check if it’s really that slow.

4.33 · 2015-02-19T09:20:21.000Z

^ and this is exactly why you need to have a separate kit for each song. So if Pattern 1 uses Kit 1 and your Pattern 2 uses the same sound - save a copy of that kit and name it Kit 1*. This way, when you play your Pattern 2 you tweak Kit 1* and if you go back to Pattern 1 - the original Kit 1 will load.

Bit clunky I know, but as far as I’m concerned it’s the only way navigating the thing.

avantronica · 2015-02-19T13:30:36.000Z

There is also the option to enforce a saved version of the kit to be loaded at pattern start