So the analog devices have temporary buffers for a number of unsaved kits.
It’s kind of counter intuitive how they work. I believe to know the devices pretty well, but I still lose kits even after years of intensive use. This is caused by forgetting to save kits sometimes.
The problem is that multiple kits are kept in temporary buffers, i.e. you can switch between multiple patterns which have multiple unsaved kits linked to them, and the kits’ behavior is indistinguishable whether they’re saved or temporary. That is, until you power down the device. Some of these unsaved kits are then lost, but not all of them (?). So for me, it kind of happens that I forget to save kits because functionally they appear to be already saved.
One could say it is user error. But it’s a pretty weird design quirk imho.
Anyone know how these temporary buffers work exactly?
To prevent losing kits, I guess the best way would be to enable “kit reload on change”, that way it’s a bit more consistent because unsaved kits are then always lost when changing to a different kit. This would probably “train” my brain to more consistently save kits, because you then always have to save them manually if you don’t want to lose them on a simple pattern switch.
On the other hand, it’s kind of neat to be able to switch kits without having to save individual ones, because then it matches the behavior of the patterns. But it only “simulates” the auto-saving behavior of patterns.
(I guess I would like to have an option to auto-save kits, as well as a method to more quickly load kits, something which is as quick and easy as assigning sound-locks.the kit load menu isn’t much fun, especially if you want to try & audition several kits in the current pattern to see how they sound. Switching patterns - easy. P-Locking - easy. Loading kit - weird multi-column menu which could be faster to invoke and which automatically closes even if you don’t want it to close.)
