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How can I dump things into my XP-50/JV-1080?

From: Chris Sherwood <chr
isshe@microsoft.com>

The Roland synths have permanent memory, what we call Preset
and User banks.  You can write or read SysEx with these locations
either a bank at a time or a patch at a time.

But the default area that the JV likes the read/write at the single patch
and performance level is the Temp memory area.  You're always using
the temp area.  For instance, when you turn the dial to select a patch,
what you're actually doing is loading another patch into the temp area.
When you edit this patch, the editing occurs in this temp area. That's
why you need to save your patch to permanant Preset or User memory
before you select change patches, as the new patch would overwrite the
temp area.  (actually, you can save your edited patch via SysEx as well,
not writting it anywhere in the JV/XP memory)

The beauty of this for patches is that you can load any patch you want
into the synth and play it before you decided that you really like it enough
to save it to permemant memory.  When you SysEx load a patch, it simply
goes to the temp area, so if you don't want it, just forget it (leave
it, overwrite
it, whatever).

Even more robust is the temporary performance memory area, which not
only holds the performance you dialed up, but the 16 patches as well. This
is different from the patch temp area, which is the same size as a permenant
patch memory location.  The permenant performance memory areas are
for the performance only, but the temporary performance area is for the
performance *and* the patches that it refers to.  So, if you SysEx dump the
performance temp area, then you can send this for any XP/JV owner to
play -- they don't need to have your patches, because they're already
bundled in.  This is also conveient for you in the studio--if you're playing
a list of sequences for someone, you don't have to keep changing the
entire User bank to load the patches that you need (which for me, are often
different from sequence to sequence).  All you have to do is save the
temp perf and load it up everytime, which is quick and does not overwrite
any permanent memory.

Eh?

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From: s.bennett@east-anglia.ac.uk (Stephen Bennett)

>Is there any way on the JV1080 that i can say have a singel performance set
>up and just pump patches from , say, Galaxy, into each of the 16 multi
>locations

From: japel@bambi.cecer.army.mil (Edward J. Japel)
Stephen:

Even if you can send patches via Galaxy to the JV1080 while in the PERFORMANCE
mode, what you have to remember is that the destination for sending patches
from Galaxy is the USER mode area.

When you select a performance setup, the ENTIRE performance is stored in the
TEMPORARY area.  If you want to use a specific patch and then change it to
another patch while in performance setup mode, this can ONLY be done from
the performance mode.

So I think the answer to your question above is NO, you cannot dynamically
change the patches in the performance setup as a function of sending pathces
to the user mode.

My RECOMMENDATION, after many trials, is to transfer the SYSEX performance setup
to your sequencer.  When you play the sequence the JV1080 will repond with
** RECEIVING SYSTEM EXCLUSIVE Data *** ...  you're sequence is ready to be
played
with ALL the parameters set properly in the TEMP area.

If you like to play along... then assign a part (I use part#1) to respond
to your
keyboard.  This part is pointing to the USR area and responds to program changes
from you keyboard.