From mark@markrae.co.uk Wed Mar 27 04:51:18 2002
Subject:On the road

Hi,

I'm in a gigging band for which I use my XK-2. I've created loads
of patches, and dump these regularly to my PC using a fairly bog-
standard sound card and MIDI cable.

My question concerns what would happen if I got to a gig and found
that the XK-2 had lost all my patches. I don't know even if this
is very likely or not, but I hear horror stories of similar things
happening to other keyboard players with other keyboards etc.

I also tour with a Korg N264 and a Roland XP-80. They, of course,
have a floppy drive, and I take a couple of backup diskettes for that
with me to every gig so I'm pretty confident that I could restore all
my patches for these with minimum effort.

My question is: is it possible somehow to dump the MS2000r
patches "through" the N264 or XP-80 and onto a diskette in their
floppy drives, and upload them by reversing the process should the
unthinkable happen? If not, would anyone recommend something like a
Yamaha MDF-3?

Any assistance gratefully received.

Mark