Specifications

CHAPTER 7: UTILITY

7.1 ABOUT UTILITY

The Utility Menu allows you to save the IED04 Pattern, Song, and Drum Kit data to MIDI

system exclusive storage devices and check how much memory is left on the iED04. General

instructions are:

1. Press the UTILITY button.

2. Use the Page (up and down) buttons to select different "pages" of functions; the display's

lower right window shows the page number. These pages are described below.

3. Adjust values on pages, if necessary, as described for each page.

4. After performing the desired utility operation, press UTILITY again to exit, or choose another

page.

7.2 PAGE 1: SEND DATA AS MIDI TO A MIDI SYS EX STORAGE DEVICE (SEND OUT MIDI?)

The display shows SEND OUT MIDI? To convert the IED04's Pattern and Song information

into MIDI system exclusive data and send this data through the MIDI out, press the PLAY

button. The display will say SENDING MIDI… to confirm that data is being sent. Typically, the

MIDI out would connect to another device’s MIDI in or a system exclusive data storage device,

such as the Alesis DataDisk. The IED04 data can take up to 35K, allowing it to be captured by

most system exclusive storage devices.

After the transfer is complete, the IED04 display reverts to either Song or Pattern mode

(whichever had been selected prior to saving).

Note the iED04 does not have a MIDI IN port, but the data can be read by an Alesis SR16

drum machine.

Saving to DataDisk

1. Connect the IED04 MIDI out to the DataDisk (DD) MIDI in.

2. Insert a formatted disk into the DD and proceed to the next step. If the disk is not formatted, insert it in the drive

and press the DD Format switch. When the DD display says FORMAT DISK?, press DO/YES. When the display

says ARE YOU SURE? press DO/YES again.

3. Press the DD RECEIVE button. The display says RECV ONE SYSEX: WAITING FOR DATA.

4. Press the IED04 UTIL button (if you are not already in the util function) and select Page 1.

5. Press the IED04 PLAY button. The IED04 display says SENDING MIDI… and the DD display says

RECEIVING ION IED04 to indicate that data has been received.

6. To prevent future confusion, name the DD file using the DD NAME function.