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The Sirius and MIDI
Very, very important! As a safety measure you should regularly 'data-Dump' (data-save) the sounds, patterns and songs you
created in the Sirius to an external sequencer or MIDI-file-player. You will do yourself and your carefully composed pieces a
great favour. Even professionals in the heat of the moment can delete or overwrite sounds, patterns and sometimes even whole
songs! A Data-Dump is also required when the memory of the Sirius is full and you want to store your work permanently onto
an external device.
The Data-Dump-functions are located in the Write-menu of the Sirius from page 8 onwards. The Sirius offers four different forms of
Data-Dump:
1. Momentum-Data-Dump (Write-menu, page 9):
The Momentum-Data-Dump sends all currently set Parameters of the Sirius. Even the parameters that are not stored yet. These are:
the sound setting, bank and number; all system parameters from the System menu, common-parameters (pad-allocation, sequencer-
tempo, groove-settings, effectssettings, Vocoder-settings, Arpeggiator-settings) and Mix settings. You could call the
MomentumData-Dump a 'snapshot' of the current status of the device.
2. Sound-Data-Dump (Write-menu, page 10):
The Sound data-Dump stores the maximum no. of 480 Sirius sounds which have been stored in the User-bank, the settings of the
Percussion-sets and the Arpeggiator-motions.
3. Song-data-Dump (Write-menu, page 11):
The Song-data-Dump contains all stored User-motifs, User-patterns (P0-P99), Mix-parameters and songs. A finished stored song
contains the sequence of the song, the Sequencer-tempo, the Groovesettings, the effects settings of FX-1 and FX-2, the Vocoder-
settings and the Arpeggiator-Settings.
4. All-Data-Dump (Write-menu, page 12):
When you select All-data-Dump, a Sound- and a Song-data-Dump will be sent immediately one after the other.
How to Data-Dump:
In the following section we will explain to you step by step how you can Data-Dump Sirius data onto a computer using Cubase. This
procedure should be much the same for all good-quality sequencing software, as the principle is the same.
Should you not have any sequencer-software installed on your computer you might want to use a special Back-up programme. These
programmes are mainly (as shareware and freeware) available free of charge. One of those programmes is for example "Dumpster"
for the PC which you can get from our home page on the Internet.
When performing a Data-Dump always make sure that the MIDI-Out socket of the Sirius is connected to the MIDI-IN socket of
your computer or MIDI-inferface. Only then can the data of the Sirius get to your computer.
Basic settings for Data-Dumps to Cubase:
First you should start a new Cubase-file. Create a new track and choose the setting "Any" or "OM" for the channel. If your Cubase is
set the way it is in our diagram, you are primed for Data-Dump.
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