Pete C
Re: Empty SET
Wed Sep 18 20:30:50 2002
203.141.89.177

Hi Armando

Firstly, all that the EMPTY.SET does, is save you having to clear each and every 
"C bank" style - that is all!! It is useful if you want to build all your USER 
styles from scratch. Personally I prefer to build my USER styles from an existing 
(similar) style - this is a great time-saver.

If you just want to build a "C bank" set of styles from USB CD, or style diskettes 
etc in order to have all your favorite styles in one SET, then you need to 
understand the "style block" limitations and also check the sizes of the styles 
you want to use. This is a bit messy, but you can end up with a great SET and 
utilize the i30 style RAM efficiently.

Brief background:
The i30 style memory is divided into 12 equal parts, called "blocks". Each block 
can hold up to 4 styles. So, to build a block containing 4 styles, the total size 
of those 4 styles MUST be able to fit in the block, otherwise you may only get 
3 styles into the block (for example).

Let me give you an example:- let's say you wanted to have the brilliant 
i3 Big Band style (from the i3 ROM styles). This is a superb style, but it 
takes up a complete block on the i30 - so you could load it as style C31 
(i30 block 5), but then you have no block space left (block 5) and hence could 
not use C32, C33, C34.

A tip here is that if you were creating your own brand new super style, you should 
always try and use as many "patterns" as possible (i.e. don't have repetative 
phrases in any of the style tracks unless that phrase is recorded in a pattern) 
- this will reduce the overall style size.

One of the problems with importing non-i30 styles is that the style will be full 
expanded events with no patterns - hence much larger than really necessary in a 
lot of cases.

i30 blocks are as follows:
C11-C14 = block 1
C15-C18 = block 2
C21-C24 = block 3
C25-C28 = block 4
C31-C34 = block 5
C35-C38 = block 6
C41-C44 = block 7
C45-C48 = block 8
C51-C54 = block 9
C55-C58 = block 10
C61-C64 = block 11
C65-C68 = block 12
(Total 48 user styles)

Hope this helps

Cheers, Pete