Hi Kenny,
What you wish to do, depends on the format of the styles on your floppy disc. They could be in one of two formats : CUSTOM or COMPOSER. To determine in which format the styles have been saved on the disk, insert the disk in the drive, press the 'Load' button to display the disc load screen and select one of the filenames. Look in the box at the right hand side of the screen and you should see details of the content of the selected files.
If there is an entry for 'ALL CUSTOM STYLES' then the styles are in Custom Memory format. In this case, just load the file and up to 20 styles will be loaded into the CUSTOM Memory and you can use them as you would, the normal built-in styles.
If there is no 'ALL CUSTOM STYLES' entry in the box, but there is a 'COMPOSER' entry, then there will be up to three COMPOSER styles present in the selected file. Again, just load the file and the three Composer styles will be transferred to Composer Memories A, B and C. You can access these styles by pressing the extreme right button (MEMORY LOAD)in the lower row of the Rhythm group.
If you wish to carry out style transfers between Built-In, Custom and Composer, there is a written procedure available on my website, which explains how to do this.
http://mysite.freeserve.com/willumspages/index.html Go to the Tech Tips Page and download Number 9.
Your question about Panel Memory - Styles are not directly stored in the Panel Memory - they are only stored in Built-in Memory, Custom Memory or Composer Memory. The panel memories only store 'Pointers' to a particular style, in one of the above 'style' memories. Panel Memory has a total of 13 Banks : A, B, C and 1 -10 and each Bank has 8 memory locations. You can store a panel set-up, including a different style, from any of the three style memory locations above, in each of the Panel Memories. Therefore, you can store pointers to 8 x 13 = 104 different styles in total.
Referring to your last question, it is possible to move style positions within the CUSTOM memory, but not directly. You will have to do this via the COMPOSER memory - ie copy the two Custom styles to Composer memory - say A and B and then copy them back to Custom in reverse order, so that original style No.3 becomes No.7 and original style No.7 becomes No 3. The question is, 'Why would you want to move style positions within the Custom memory?' Each style in the Custom memory is directly accessible at any time, irrespective of its location.
You can of course save your Custom / Composer styles to SD Card.
There is also an option available in the SD Tools Menu, to Copy an entire floppy disk directly to your SD Card.
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Willum
[This message has been edited by Bill Norrie (edited 10-02-2005).]