N00b Q - Grabbing > C-H Banks from Virus B

[madmaxmarchhare]

Sorry for the dumb n00b question, but I want to grab the factory patches from my VBD. I can easily get banks A and B, but I can't find a way to dump the rest of the banks without dumping the whole thing.

Can I copy, say, Single banks C, D, etc. into banks A and B and download those via sysex? Or, even better, is there a way to download the single patch banks D-H directly without dumping the entire machine?

Also, secondary question--there are letters at the end of each patch--RP, JS, OK--do these mean something?

Thanks, in advance.

Max

[Timo]

Hi Max.

Sorry for the dumb n00b question, but I want to grab the factory patches from my VBD. I can easily get banks A and B, but I can't find a way to dump the rest of the banks without dumping the whole thing.

SoundDiver is good for dumping banks or even single patches however you wish.

However only banks A and B are editable singly (editing single patches and saving them individually) on the Virus itself.

The other banks (C-H) have to be written en masse as those banks are stored in Flash ROM. You can't edit them singley and write the patches individually.

Also, secondary question--there are letters at the end of each patch--RP, JS, OK--do these mean something?

They are the initials of the person(s) who designed the patches. I believe, but can't be sure of some of them, that BC is BenCrosland, RP is Rob Papen (I think), HS is Howard Scarr, M@ or MP is Matt Picone, MS could be Matt Stolley, Manuel Schleis, or Marc Schlaile, and so on. I'm unsure of JS, OK, SV, ZS and a few others.

[madmaxmarchhare]

Thank you for your reply.

I don't know where to find sounddiver.. it appears to be MOA?

So, there's no way to just dump banks C-H to external? Can I copy, say all of bank C over to A and then D to B and copy those out?