• Most drivers allow you to handle data with names. They can get the data from the device, via a data dump, and extract the names out of this. When you save a Device File or a Global File or when you perform a Total Recall, the names will be saved with the data.
• Some drivers do not manage dumps, but still use names. Those drivers are: all “List Drivers” (including the General MIDI Driver), “preset List drivers” where the only thing the Studio Module can do is select Patches via MIDI and finally drivers which do perform data dumps but out of which the Studio Module can't extract names. For more information about different types of drivers, see page 151.
• In some of these cases you may be able to change the names and some cases not. The general rule is that if the names can't be modified in the device itself, they can't be in the Studio Module driver either, but there are exceptions.
• With the drivers that handle names but not dumps, the names are stored in the driver file itself. Saving is done by selecting Save/Update Names in the Patch Manager, as described on page 122.
In the Data Dump Manager and in the Patch Manager, you will see if a Bank contains data (a ">" mark appears to the left of it) or only names (an "n" appears to the left of it).
Contains Data Contains Names Only
When you load a Cubase Song, the program will look in the same directory for a file with the same name, but with the extension "MEM". If such a file exists, the Studio Module will automatically propose to either perform a Total Send of the file or to load the Names only.
If you save the file under the name DEF.MEM, and in the same directory as your Cubase program, the Studio Module will automatically load the names from this file when you launch Cubase.