i’ve just discovered a thing and that thing ruined one of my K.O! backups. i believe that the thing is worth being aware of, at least.
the story is: i got some sounds sampled into 2 empty melodic slots and 1 empty drum slot. po-33 was factory fresh meaning i didn’t zap those factory default sounds. then i made a few patterns and performed a backup (which lasts around 4 minutes on my recorder). now, on trying to restore from that backup my po-33 runs out of memory saying ERR somewhere around slot (button) number 12.
i did know that (most of?) those factory sounds aren’t really samples, but rather a tricky synth engine product which occupies way less space on the device compared to real sound samples. what i didn’t know is those factory sounds get into backup as real (sampled) sounds and restore as real (sampled) sounds and in the end of going through backup and restore they occupy almost all of the 40 available seconds just on their own.
so: be extra sure you get rid of all those factory sounds before performing a backup (or at least zap all you don’t use in your project). and keep in mind that if you have at least one factory sound in your backup you might not be able to fit all of your backup’ samples back into memory.
i’ve just discovered a thing and that thing ruined one of my K.O! backups. i believe that the thing is worth being aware of, at least.
the story is: i got some sounds sampled into 2 empty melodic slots and 1 empty drum slot. po-33 was factory fresh meaning i didn’t zap those factory default sounds. then i made a few patterns and performed a backup (which lasts around 4 minutes on my recorder). now, on trying to restore from that backup my po-33 runs out of memory saying ERR somewhere around slot (button) number 12.
i did know that (most of?) those factory sounds aren’t really samples, but rather a tricky synth engine product which occupies way less space on the device compared to real sound samples. what i didn’t know is those factory sounds get into backup as real (sampled) sounds and restore as real (sampled) sounds and in the end of going through backup and restore they occupy almost all of the 40 available seconds just on their own.
so: be extra sure you get rid of all those factory sounds before performing a backup (or at least zap all you don’t use in your project). and keep in mind that if you have at least one factory sound in your backup you might not be able to fit all of your backup’ samples back into memory.
happy samplin!
That’s weird. I did a backup with the original sounds AND new sounds and it worked perfectly fine! (The backup was around 3 minutes)
i've just discovered a thing and that thing ruined one of my K.O! backups. i believe that the thing is worth being aware of, at least.
the story is: i got some sounds sampled into 2 empty melodic slots and 1 empty drum slot. po-33 was factory fresh meaning i didn't zap those factory default sounds. then i made a few patterns and performed a backup (which lasts around 4 minutes on my recorder). now, on trying to restore from that backup my po-33 runs out of memory saying ERR somewhere around slot (button) number 12.
i did know that (most of?) those factory sounds aren't really samples, but rather a tricky synth engine product which occupies way less space on the device compared to real sound samples. what i didn't know is those factory sounds get into backup as real (sampled) sounds and restore as real (sampled) sounds and in the end of going through backup and restore they occupy almost all of the 40 available seconds just on their own.
so: be extra sure you get rid of all those factory sounds before performing a backup (or at least zap all you don't use in your project). and keep in mind that if you have at least one factory sound in your backup you might not be able to fit all of your backup' samples back into memory.
happy samplin!
I had that same issue. what i did to ‘fix’ my backup that i copied individual slices from the factory kits that i liked, into a new drum slot. 4 factory drums -> 1 new drum slot (taking only parts that i want). I can delete the factory kits, and end up with ~32 seconds left.
That's weird. I did a backup with the original sounds AND new sounds and it worked perfectly fine! (The backup was around 3 minutes)
in my case i think i had too much time occupied by my samples - K.O! said there were 2 or 4 seconds left, i don’t remember exactly.
I had that same issue. what i did to ‘fix’ my backup that i copied individual slices from the factory kits that i liked, into a new drum slot. 4 factory drums -> 1 new drum slot (taking only parts that i want). I can delete the factory kits, and end up with ~32 seconds left.
i lost the drum slot sample and not sure if it would be possible to bring it back by just cutting off a (hopefully factory sounds) piece in a wave editor. there should be some kind of markers in the wave, but i hardly think i can determine those just by examining the waveform. and i don’t see any other way to get the samples back - the original project is now lost and the only thing left is that 4 minute backup.
I had to make a new backup. I still have a backup with the problem you have. When sending that to the po33 my backup is partially intact. All patterns are there, some sounds are not
@PO33MO for retrig hold the step you want to repeat and press the bpm button to cycle through the options (2,3,4 etc). Note that it ONLY works on the “drum” slots (sounds 9-16)
When write mode is active (see the circle inside a square graphic on screen) any of the 16 buttons (steps) that contain a note should be lit up. Press and HOLD one that has a note and press bpm while holding.
@PO33MO Don’t expect there to ever be software updates for the POs. It would most likely require special flashing hardware unless they started wanting it to be upgradeable. But based on how often they release upgrades for the OP-1, I would imagine they are happy to never have to upgrade the POs.