People, people, people - We should al be experts by now. Know one thing - YOU CAN'T SAVE INDIVIDUAL PATCHES TO DISK USING THE XP alone. You need a computer. I'll explain.

Anyone who's searched the web for JV patches will encounter single downloadable patches in the .syx format. Using a JV/XP editor or a sequencer program, it's possible to save this stuff as sysex files or .MID files (from the editor) and then load them back into your synth one at a time if you like. The thing is, you'd have to be able to convert the sysex (.syx) to .MID - Guess what?! There's a utility that does this, it's called sysx2mid. Type that in a search engine, it's bound to be somewhere on the net.

Other than this, you can save indvidual patches as sysex in the sequencer at the begining of your songs. This is tedious, but it is explained thouroughly in the back of the manual. If you don't want to do any of this at all, you'd have to save the whole bank. I don't like going through all of those steps. so i just save everything as a bank and call it a day.

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