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1 4 0 DM PRO REFERENCE MANUAL

USING PCMCIA EXPANSION CARDS

The DM Pro provides a PCMCIA EXPANSION CARD slot, located on the front

panel. It will accommodate Alesis QCards and RAM cards. The RAM Card is a type

of PCMCIA SRAM or Flash RAM card. We currently offer one which has 512K of

memory and will store 8 complete banks. Larger Flash RAM cards can store up to

8MB of sample data using Alesis Sound Bridge software.

The QCards are ROM cards, which stands for Read-Only Memory. This means that

you can’t store (“Write”) to them. So the kind of card you need to use for that sort of

operation is an SRAM or Flash RAM card.

The cards must be Type 1 PC cards (PCMCIA), and must be either

AMD-C series or -D series FLASH cards (or fully compatible). Any

SRAM card should work. Many different card sizes from 256K to 8

Megabytes are supported; just make sure they are 5-volt read/write

only, and have an access time of 150 nanoseconds or faster.

USING ALESIS QCARD EXPANSION CARDS

Included on the CD-ROM are two extra banks for the DM Pro. These banks were

created to allow instant access to the wealth of samples on two of our most popular

8-megabyte QCard Expansion cards, the Z1 Hip Hop QCard and the Z2 Eurodance

QCard. These two QCards are heavily populated with great drum loops and

samples, as well as tons of synth, keyboard and other samples, making them the

ideal partners for the DM Pro.

All other QCards are compatible with the DM Pro as well, but you will have to create

your own custom Drums which access the samples on those cards.

PLAYING BACK A SEQUENCE FROM

THE

CARD SLOT

As mentioned before, Sound Bridge allows you to burn your own sequence files to

an SRAM or Flash RAM card in the DM Pro’s expansion card slot (up to 50 of them!).

Once you’ve done this, here is how to access your sequences from the front panel of

the DM Pro:

1. Press and hold the [KIT] button.

2. While still holding the [KIT] button, press the [CURSOR >] button. You will see a

screen that looks like this:

Play Card Seq 0 0

<STORE>

3. Using the VALUE wheel, select a number between 00 and 49.

4. Press [STORE]. The screen will indicate that the DM Pro is playing the sequence

you selected. You can stop the sequence at any time by pressing the [KIT] button.

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