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Originally Posted by technomonster
How on earth did the old school do sys-ex dumps.
can anyone else explain what the old method was. was there any software used at all.
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Well basically, for old analog monosynths and modulars there would be no back up utility since you had to make a patch from scratch everytime. On the analog poly's (which did have patch memory storage) such as the OB8, Prophet 5 and Jupiter 8....you'd have a cassette jack....which alowed you to dump all the patches onto a cassette tape. You could only dump whole banks.....and conversely only load whole banks in. To the best of my knowledge there was no way to save and load single sounds individually. It was only until the advent of the Prophet 600 and DX7MKi in 1982/1983 respectively that basic midi allowed users more flexibility in saving and loading patches into their synths.
DS