Applies to: X-Station

Use the X-Station Template Editor to send templates to/from the X-Station and also to create your own templates. The Editor can be downloaded from here.

To upload a template to the X-Station follow these steps:

1. Connect the X-Station to your computer and turn it on, then open the Editor.
2. If the 'Welcome' dialogue appears select 'Nothing thanks!' and click 'OK'.
3. Choose 'Select MIDI input/output device...' from the 'Devices' menu and make sure the X-Station is selected as the input and output device, then click 'OK'.
4. Choose 'Open...' from the 'File' menu and select the template you want to load into the X-Station, then click 'Open'.
5. Make sure the X-Station is in template mode and not synth mode. Then press the 'global' button to enter the global menu and scroll to the 'Mem Protect' page. Set this to 'Off' and press 'write' to save the setting, then press 'play/synth' to return to play mode.
6. Click 'Upload' in the editor to send the template to the X-Station.
7. Once the template has uploaded to the X-Station, press the 'write' button to save the template to the unit. After pressing 'write' once use the data encoder to select the memory location you want to save the template to and then press 'write' a further three times to confirm.

To send a template from the X-Station to your computer follow these steps:

1. Connect the X-Station to your computer and turn it on, then open the Editor.
2. If the 'Welcome' dialogue appears select 'Listen for a template from your X-Station' and click 'OK'. If the 'Welcome' dialogue does not appear choose 'Listen for template dump' from the 'Device' menu.
3. Make sure the X-Station is in template mode. Use the data encoder to select the template you want to send and then press the 'global' button to enter the global menu. Scroll to the 'Dump' page and select 'Current Template'.
4. Press 'write' to send the template to the Editor and then press 'play/synth' to return to play mode.
5. In the editor choose 'Save As...' from the 'File' menu to save the template to your computer.