Please pardon my previous post. It was long and had many grammatical errors. However, I assure you that I'm trying to be helpful in any way I can. This one will probably have more errors, so enjoy!

Using method #2 is also good if you are running low on floppy disk space. The .SVQ files take up more space than MIDI files (I prefer 'SMF1' because it keeps the tracks separate whereas 'SMF0' puts all the tracks together. That sucks and in my opinion is unnecessary!) So anyway, to get the best of both worlds, save your USER data as in method #1 then load it up before you play the song. Together with that, save your temporary patches in the first 4 measures of the song as a SMF1 file. This might seem like overkill to some, but I like to be as safe and efficient as I can be.

But if speed is more important to you than disk space, saving all your USER memory as a SOUND file will do the job. And if you like the song to start right up, loading the SOUND file and then simply playing back the SONG should do the trick! Just be sure you have a specific SOUND file to load for each song you have. This is really the best way to work. So have fun, relax, and don't worry...your sounds can all be restored from the disk.

Jake