If you're a musician doing studio gigs, you will often be playing someone else's MIDI rig. The Studio Module lets you reprogram someone else’s devices with your Patches, relatively easily. You will need to bring not only your Song files, but also your STUDIO.DAT directory to the studio.
1. Make a backup of your own STUDIO.DAT directory.2. If you are working on someone else’s computer, you will have to replace their STUDIO.DAT with yours. Then, when you make modifications to the Setup it will be a copy of your STUDIO.DAT you are working on.
P Make a backup of the studio’s STUDIO.DAT directory before you overwrite it!!!3. Open Setup and modify your settings to fit the rig you are currently working with. Add Drivers if needed, and change SysEx/MIDI Channel settings and Patchbay routings. Close the Setup window.
4. If needed, create a new Total Recall "patch", so that a Total Send only changes what is absolutely needed to change in the rig you are working on.6. When you are done working in this studio, make a backup of the current STUDIO.DAT directory, and store it with your other project files. If needed, restore the studio’s STUDIO.DAT directory.
• If you used your own computer, you will need to bring out your original STUDIO.DAT directory and use it to replace the one you currently have on disk, before you start working in your own studio again.
If you need to work on a Song that was created by someone else who is also using the Studio Module, there are two ways to go: