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Hi Rusty,
Welcome to the Clan, and congratulations on your new machine !

The XT is a brilliant board, as you would find out soon.

There are plenty of articles in this forum that will help you to understand the XT better and quicker, but apart from a few "tricks", the V-Synth XT is one of the most easy and intuitive to use synths I know of, and with the addition of Vari-phrase, Step Modulator, time-trip Pad and USB AUDIO/MIDI /DATA, it is Unique !!!

have a look to the following links. There you can finf very useful information, that will help you to master the "beast".

http://cms.rolandus.com/assets/media/pdf/V_SynthBook1.pdf

http://cms.rolandus.com/assets/media/pdf/V_SynthBook2.pdf

http://www.rolandclan.com/media/19/Welcome_to_Elastic_Audio.pdf

http://www.rolandclan.com/library/v-synth_xt/

http://forums.rolandclan.info/?action=show_all&fid=4

Have fun
PauloF

First question...

I've got the usb connection working, and can see the V-Synth, no problems there... just having problems loading / importing different projects other then the "internal.prj" file...

I've copied a couple of project files into the root folder of the V-Synth.

When I go "Mode -> Disk -> Load Project" the only one I can see is "internal.prj"; nothing else appears.

Am I missing something simple here?

Thanks

You have to copy them to the external CF card and then load the new projects from there. Don't mess with the internal folder.

Woops..

Ok, so I need to grab a PCMIA card to be able to access additional projects?

Edit: Got one of those lying around.

Can you not transfer projects directly via USB? Or store them on the V-Synth?

Can a Compact Flash to PCMIA card adaptor work?

Edit: Yes it can.

Is there limitations on size? I think I read somewhere 2gb?

Edit: Works fine with a 4gb CF card so far.

Edit: Loaded my first project

Others will tell you that you can replace the internal folder, but I'm just giving my opinion...don't mess with it. Besides that there are some files that you should not touch, otherwise you can lose the VC-1 (D-50 Synth). You have plenty of space on a external CF card to play around with projects " just leave the kids alone"

You can only transfer projects from the computer via USB and store them on the External CF Card on the V-Synth.

Don't forget, the XT "remembers" the last project and patch used, so if you choose a project on the CF to be your main project (or default), it will always boot and load that particular project (provided you leave the CF card fitted, of course )

A Compact Flash PCMCIA adapter will work just fine.

About the CF Size...well I have a 1GB Kingston CF, but I've heard that you can use up to 2GB, but honestly I've never tried.


Cheers,
PauloF

I tried with an ULTIMA 2GB Card and the results were strange...

Sometimes the XT reads the contents, sometimes not...

So I will stick with my Kingston 1 GB, that works very well. It holds 22 projects, lots of samples and I have still 500Mb free.

I have a Kingston 2GB in mine and it works fine...

Yeap, could be the ULTIMA 2GB bad quality...