The manual for the MD (page 71) speaks of a RAM to ROM copy, in which you can apparently save whatever you have sampled, permanently, to a ROM slot.
Unfortunately, the manual lacks much of an explanation of how this is done. I’ve tried it at least ten times, and have tried performing the copy/paste operations is various ways, but to no success. I don’t see any prompt that says anything is being copied, and when I try to paste into a ROM machine or slot, I don’t get a prompt saying that anything has been pasted, either.
Am I missing something here, or is the manual wrong? I’m pulling my hair out because this is feature that I really want to work!
Dude, thank you so much! That was it. I hadn’t scrolled to the bottom of the Sample Manager menu where the specific RAM/ROM slots are located (I forgot about that even though I now remember reading it somewhere in the manual…?). I had tried copying the machine, and not the dedicated RAM slot. Good grief
And yes, when you SAVE the sample to a ROM slot, the MD clears all RAM machines. So you definitely want to COPY/PASTE all RAM samples to ROM slots before saying “yes” to the last step of the saving operation.
This just goes to show how important a well written manual really is. ELEKTRON, please take note!
Thanks guys.
I just had the same problem the day before yesterday. I pulled out the old Casio SK-1 and was sampling it into ram machines. I read the manual description twenty times. It took me over an hour, until I finally scrolled to the end of the samplebank by accident and noticed the ram and rom slots in the bank.
“You will probably want to name the sample now, as it will just say …”
I did not know that you could name tha samples. Only owned the MD for five years or so…good always to learn something new.
Always felt it was occued to keep uin mind the slot number for every sample
Yep, you can make the sample time to be as short as you want. No space wasted! I find the 2.5MB per Snapshot to be plenty of space, and I sample lots of ARPs, pads, etc. from other synths.
I am so in love with this feature. The ability to sample directly into the MD makes it far more than just a drum machine (which it is amazing at being even without sampling). The MD+ is more like an ‘all-in-one’ jam box (that term sounds too cheap though).
So I found the RAM sample in the Global settings, but when y’all say “paste it to a ROM slot” I am a bit lost. Is that just “anything not marked with an R1, R2, etc”?
I THINK I did this right, but it didn’t give me the opportunity to rename it, so now I am unsure and can’t find it.
The sampling is HELLA fun, but I want to make sure I can save the results of my endeavors!
EDITED TO ADD Well, I answered my own question about whether it worked. I just didn’t get to name it.
I’ve recently decided to give the RAM machines another go, and would like to save something I’ve sampled. I’ve followed the instructions on page 71 of the manual (focus on P1, Global > Sample Manager > [FN] + [Rec] to copy > [FN] + [Stop] to paste in the slot of my choosing…and nothing happens. So what steps am I missing? Can someone explain this like I’m 5?
RAM Playback samples how do we get them into ROM slots without a computer? Better yet making them ROM without a third party device i.e., TM-1/C6 to transfer them out and then back in, remember can’t turn the machine off in-between.
To give just a little more clarification, the RAM slots are found at the very end of the Sample Manager list. So if you sample to R1, scroll to the very bottom of the list and you should be able to find your sample, at which point copy and paste as mentioned above.
Yeah, it’s a bit of a pain, and also the fact that you have to load a new machine (ROM vs RAM) on the track(s) you are using that sample on, which means you lose all the track settings (I think you can press Fn+Enter to load and preserve the last two screens of parameters, but the first screen will be reset)