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When customising the v with your own samples is it usual to leave the factory samples as they are or can they be deleted? I mean they are obviously very useful as a general sample library, if they do not take too much space then I guess they are kept? Do you replace what is on the "G drive" (or whatever letter) with your own project and backup the existing files to computer or card? Is this an actual hard disk in the V Synth?

Hi Degras,

The v-synth has a some built in flash memory, which holds the internal project, which by default is the factory set. When you mount this on your PC via usb, you should make a backup of it, ie drag and drop it somewhere else.

There is no issue with overwritting these samples unless you want to use them in your current project.

The best way, its to get yourself a PCMCIA flash memory card, and store all your projects on this. You mount it via usb just like the internal drive. Once its appears as a drive on your pc you can copy the internal.prj backup and any other projects to this card, so it makes its easy to switch between projects without having to mess around on your pc.

Hope that makes some kind of sense ???

Terry

It is always better to start from a clean project. As the V-Synth doesn't let you to do this easily (you have to copy the Internal.prj project, then manually delete everything under the Patch and Wave directories), you can use the empty project attached to this message.

ok, i got it now, thanks. It seems easiest to initialise the card via usb.

So I take it that we get the whole of the Flash RAM (30MB or is it more) to put in our own sounds in the case of deleting the preset waves?

Can we import the preset waves we like in an easy way?

I could do with deleting almost everything and starting again. i think the presets are cool for showing what can be done, but a lot of them aren't really useful for putting in your own music (e.g. Da V Code etc)

I presume you can use the librarian to do just that: Open the project in the librarian and delete the patches (waves) you don't want. Then rearrange the remaining patches in any order you like.

orangefunk:

The preset samples are stored in internal ROM. What you refer to is sample RAM, not internal flash RAM. Samples are loaded/recorded into RAM (50 MB) for playback/editing. But they are saved in flash RAM (10 MB internal) or card.