User Guide

224 CHAPTER 22
The Virus and Sequencers
very extensive and takes quite
some time. Alternatively, you can
also send just individual sounds,
MULTIs or so-called ”arrange-
ments”.
The other truly reliable option for
archiving sounds is dumping an
arrangement (MIDI DUMP RX:
Arrangement). In this case, the cur-
rent MULTI is transmitted. Since a
MULTI contains the addresses of
SINGLE sounds used in the
arrangement rather than the
actual SINGLEs, the sounds of all
active PARTs are sent separately
(for more info on this, see the sec-
tion on MULTIMODE). This option
is convenient and fast, but has an
inherent drawback: this type of
arrangement dump does not take
into account that your song uses
program change messages to
change sounds in the MULTI. Only
the eight sounds to which the
MULTI refers in the arrangement
are sent, which is to be expected
when you consider that the Virus
can’t anticipate that you intend to
change these at some point during
playback.
Dumping an arrangement is a
great option when you’re able to
make do with the sixteen sounds
to which the MULTI refers. If you
want to or are compelled to
change sounds, you should record
the entire memory content to the
sequencer. Sending individual
MULTIs for the purpose of
archiving sounds is pointless
because they don’t contain the
actual sounds. Sending individual
sounds, in turn, is only a viable
proposition if you are operating