Fantom Nightmare
26 May 2009, 11:24So after weeks of programing and sample transferring, I arrive in Vegas to do my first real gig with my new Fantom G7. I boot up for sound check, and . . . NO LIVE SETS. . . NO SINGLE PATCHES!. . . . all samples loaded fine, ,but all programing and mapping are GONE! Luckily I had 2 hours till the show, and was able to get pretty close to what I had before, but just WTF happened??? I have no clue.
I work completely off the USB drive as internal space is ridiculously small. I have had recent past issues with projects not automatically loading on startup, and having to manually load the project I was last working on before shutting down. And I've even had the Fantom say there was nothing on the USB drive at all, until I took it out and put it back in. During this last adventure in Chaos, I even got a MEMORY FULL error, when trying to save my project.
My only thought is that it's the kind of USB drive I'm using, which is one of those TINY Imation 4GB suckers. I got it cause it's so damn small, I could keep it plugged into the machine and not worry about it, HOPEFULLY!. Time to read through that thread again more carefully in which drives you all found to be most stable I guess. But still does NOT explain how my samples and text file loaded, but no patches, live sets, or favorites!!! How did they get separated?
So that's my other question, is it bad to just keep the drive plugged in all the time? Really need to solve this problem as I can't afford to go through such stress of not knowing whether or not my programs are gonna be there before each show.
ALSO, I performed a "PROJECT BACKUP" to another drive just in case and that didn't do anything either. Have yet to research as to just what the backup thing is all about. Figured it was pretty simple. . . Backup . . .Restore. . . Done.
HELP? Somebody?
I work completely off the USB drive as internal space is ridiculously small. I have had recent past issues with projects not automatically loading on startup, and having to manually load the project I was last working on before shutting down. And I've even had the Fantom say there was nothing on the USB drive at all, until I took it out and put it back in. During this last adventure in Chaos, I even got a MEMORY FULL error, when trying to save my project.
My only thought is that it's the kind of USB drive I'm using, which is one of those TINY Imation 4GB suckers. I got it cause it's so damn small, I could keep it plugged into the machine and not worry about it, HOPEFULLY!. Time to read through that thread again more carefully in which drives you all found to be most stable I guess. But still does NOT explain how my samples and text file loaded, but no patches, live sets, or favorites!!! How did they get separated?
So that's my other question, is it bad to just keep the drive plugged in all the time? Really need to solve this problem as I can't afford to go through such stress of not knowing whether or not my programs are gonna be there before each show.
ALSO, I performed a "PROJECT BACKUP" to another drive just in case and that didn't do anything either. Have yet to research as to just what the backup thing is all about. Figured it was pretty simple. . . Backup . . .Restore. . . Done.
HELP? Somebody?