Title pretty sums it up. It is my first Elektron device. “Everything” I made was in “Proj Managr” 01: STOCK directly in the banks after the stock presets.
Today I wanted to backup the first time (!) via Transfer to my Mac. So I copied 01 to my MacBook.
After that I started to copy/paste 01: STOCK to 02: on the M:C and skipped the “Save” and BOOM everything is gone. Only factory presets. Same is true for the saved file on my Mac.
That’s awful. I didn’t even know that you could save things to the stock project. Consider it a rebirth…you’ll rebuild things better faster and stronger than before!
Thought it would autosave while shutting down. So, after today I must assume that the temp file is always kinda saved, because that was my workflow since day one, never lost the progress of my projects.
I bought the fluo-green TE Rick/Morty audiocable for an unreasonable price some minutes ago. That’s me, tryin’ to compensate
I think the manual is not clear on this. It could do with one consolidated section that goes through all the detail mentioned here (assuming that’s all correct).
Maybe we could try and persuade @eangman to update the manual ?
getting angry when I’m reading that quote. All I can read out of it, is basically: you always lose your project … better save to disk every 20 seconds to be safe
Actually it sounds like a design decision to make us buy the battery handle to have less project losses.
Please complain to elektron. They wanted to make a simple hands on device, which they did, except they made the saving structure and procedure outrageously convoluted and confusing. It s even worse when you re used to turning off studio power with one general switch. I lost stuff in the beginning too.
Never assume this. The first thing I do when buying new devices is to learn how to save properly. Sorry for your loss. If it helps, I often delete everything on my Elektron boxes and start fresh. It’s good for the mind.
Something similar happened to me too, only with Digitakt. But keep your head up, treat it as a lesson and for sure it was not wasted time because you probably learned a lot, you have knowledge left, so not everything was lost.
That sucks. I did something pretty similar but was lucky enough to have done it after only having it for a couple of weeks. Learned the lesson early on? Nope! I did it again not long after. That ought to sort me out.
Yeah I lost my first set of projects way back on the digitakt due to some mistakes of my own and some slightly unclear instructions on the first update. My practice now when getting a new device is make a quick pattern and then make sure I understand how backup and restore works. Unfortunately professional devices often expect more from there users when it comes to stuff like that.
I lost the only cover I’ve ever made… it was doctor mario chill out using only cow moo samples I suppose the world wasn’t ready for it.