Hi Graham, I have a JV1080 with LAWG, but I think the process should be the same. If I understand you correctly, you have some MIDI tracks recorded using particular sounds/effects, etc in the JV1080 and you want to do a sysex dump to Logic so that when you play it back it sets the JV1080 up the way it was. To achieve this you'll need to do the following: 1. Make sure there is a MIDI cable going from the MIDI OUT of JV1080 to the MIDI IN port in your computer. 2. Create a new instrument in the Environment, call it Sysex and set it's channel to ALL. Assign its output port to your MIDI port. 3. In Arrange, create a new track for the Sysex instrument you just created in the Environment 4. In the JV1080, click the Utility button and navigate to Bulk Dump, then Temp: Performance 5. Hit record in Logic, wait for the count-in, then hit Enter on the JV1080. 6. Logic should now be recording the sysex dump from the JV1080. 7. When done, make sure all your MIDI tracks come AFTER the sysex object you've just recorded. Play the song from the start and Logic should send back all the sysex to the JV1080, then play your MIDI tracks as normal, with all the correct settings in the JV1080. Once you've done this a couple of times, it's dead easy! Hope this works for you.... Nick :-) > i should like to start my first posting with a question. is there anyone out > there who uses the Roland JV 1080 sound module with a beige G3 Mac and > Platinum 4. > > i think i need to do something like a bulk dump (using midi) from the JV > 1080 to somewhere inside logic's banks. but i'm really not sure how to do > this and how to record using this way and also how i reload the bank on a > restart for a playback of the recorded midi tracks. > > do i need to dump to one bank for the rhythm sets and do the same to another > bank for patches from (say) the perform area? all this and more...please > help! > > graham price > in the london area (england)