epu: You also wrote:

"Other than this, you can save indvidual patches as sysex in the sequencer at the begining of your songs. This is tedious,

Is it more tedious than using sysex-to-.mid conversion and then playing the .mid file back into the XP? I have no idea.

> 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"

I'm curious: Why is it more tedious to save a single patch than a whole bank? You just choose a different source. Or have I misunderstood you?