Backup Xpresso

Backup Xpresso

Backup Xpresso is a backing up tool for Outlook, Outlook Express, and Netscape. It allows to backup E-mails, Address books, and email account Settings. Has a built-in scheduler, which you can set and forget. Backup Xpresso will even safely shutdown any e-mail program running and restart it once the backup is complete. Also is designed to backup files and folders.

Screenpresso captures your desktop (screenshots and HD videos) for your training documents, collaborative design work, IT bug reports, and more…

Screenpresso is a NEW Light-weight screen grab tool with built-in image editor, user guide generator and sharing options.

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I’ve owned a DynaSample XpressO (XO) synthesizer since Febrary 2019 and I’m still learning about it. The developer, Ingo, has been very supportive. It’s a great synth, but it’s complicated, the User Manual is not up-to-date, and the display is not intuitive. I thought that I’d like to document all the items that confused me. It may help others.

I will be adding to this summary as the synth develops, and as I use more features.

So, in no particular order, here goes…

Ingo provides regular updates for the XO program, and the XO-Update_ReadMe.pdf file tells you what has changed. I generally apply all updates, however, I recently learned a hard lesson. I hadn’t done a backup for quite a while, and the latest update had a problem (maybe a download error, I don’t know). Anyway, the update said it had applied itself correctly, but the synth failed on re-boot. The result was a non-working XO. I had to download the full operating system and re-install it (not an easy job). On top of that, I lost all my user presets and instrument settings.

The XO comes with Factory Banks F0-F8 and User Banks U0-U9 of 128 slots each. The Factory banks cannot be changed and contain presets for a large range of instrument sounds. Each of the Factory banks groups similar types of presets (eg Wind instruments for wind controllers, Keyboard instruments for wind controllers, etc), and many of the presets appear multiple times over the various categories. The idea is that you save your favourite factory presets into the User Banks, and and then edit them to meet your taste.

You can change the currently selected bank by pressing the left two buttons together, using the right knob to choose the bank name, and clicking the right knob to select it. You can change the name of your User banks to suit your needs. For instance, I have a “Favourites” bank with presets I use regularly, and a “Busking” bank where the instruments are defaulted to “C” transpose so I can use them with backing tracks.

The various settings of the synth (as opposed to the sound presets) can be saved and loaded. These settings include things like be the way various MIDI instruments are configured, the default volume, the default reverb, etc. There are hundreds of settings. This function is found in the Utilities>Internal Backup. You can save to one of 5 locations (named 1-5).

This function is useful for, say, different gigs you play at, or for different instrument combinations you use.

USB WARNING: plugging stuff into the front USB ports is fiddly. DON’T force the plug in if it doesn’t go in easily. The surrounding casing is quite a distance from the USB sockets, meaning that you can get a lot of mis-alignment, and it’s possible to damage the socket. The casing is also at an angle to the socket, so it’s easy to think that you have it lined up when you don’t. The best solution is to plug in a short USB “extension” cable so you can see what you are doing. In addition, the casing doesn’t allow for “fat” USB connectors (eg: USB memory sticks).

When you plug in a USB instrument, the XO assigns an input number/letter to it. This can be A, B, C or D. The XO tells you when you plug in the instrument which input it has been assigned to. You can also find out after plugging in by calling up the Midi Monitor (pressing button 3 and 4 together) and playing a few notes. You can then configure settings for that particular instrument by adjusting settings for its input letter. Adjustments that I have found useful are:

Features

• Global>Create Velocity From Dynamic CC. This allows you to ignore the velocity sent by the instrument, and determine it from the CC value after a certain time delay. This is used for instruments that don’t send good values of velocity (the Aerophone is one)
• Global>Dynamic Control Selection. This configures the synth’s response to the incoming dynamic (breath pressure).
  • dCC – this is the Continuous Controller number for the input. Usually it is 2, for “breath”
  • crv and ctype- this for configuring the curve applied to the incoming CC values. This is useful for my EWI-USB that has no adjustment to the breath curve – it has only “gain”. The XO manual shows the curves available. I use a single type curve with a -30 crv value. Positive values make the volume less sensitive to light blowing , and negative values make it more sensitive (counter-intuitive). I like to boost the response to light blowing.
  • mult – the % multiplier. This simply applies a % to the overall values of the incoming CC2. This is useful if the instrument doesn’t send the full range of CC2 values. Ingo recommends the Aerophone needs a multiplier around 175%
• Utilities>USB MIDI Input Offset. This increments the input letter that the XO assigns to USB instruments. A reason for using this is that if you use the DIN MIDI socket (and that is always assigned to input A), and you will want USB devices to be assigned to higher values, so as not to conflict. Whether you need to use this depends on whether you use a DIN input device, and what letters are assigned to your USB instrument(s). For instance, my EWI-USB gets assigned to “C” so it doesn’t conflict, but some of my other devices assign to “A”.
• do a backup of your settings and presets (see Configurations, and Backing Up, below) to an external USB memory stick prior to applying upgrades.
• If you’re really keen, you can do a full backup of the system (Menu: Util> Complete Internal Drive Backup to USB). You’ll need a 16GB USB3 stick. If you use USB2, it works, but it takes forever.
• make sure you have the originally-supplied USB stick with the complete system on it, just in case everything else fails. This will have an out-dated system on it, but you can then go through the upgrade process to get it working properly.