Here's a rundown. You might know some of it already but I'll repeat it just for good measure. :p

There's 8 banks, and 8 patches in each bank. The top numbers are the bank, and the bottom are the patches within that bank. So when you hit 7 on top and then 2 on bottom, you are playing patch 2 from bank 7. You can go to other patches within that bank by just hitting the bottom 3, for example, or you can switch bank and patch number. I tried to keep everything organized where bank 1 had my leads, bank 2 had pads, etc, and bank 8 had a clean patch, as well as in-progress sounds.

When you save stuff, you just have to push the "write" button, and then push the bank and patch number you wish to save to. Then it asks if you're sure and you just hit yes and it overwrites what was there already. So if you want to save, you have to write over what is already there. I had "anti-preset syndrome" (as LithoJazzoSphere so accurately described :p) where I didn't want to use anything that wasn't made from scratch, so I didn't have a problem with that at all. If there's some sounds you want to keep then just take note of their number and be sure not to write over that.


Up in the left hand corner there are 4 buttons: a b c d. These activate all your layers to the sound. I believe there is a button under them labelled layer/active (or something to that effect), which allows you to switch between 2 functions. When the patch is chosen, it is on layer function. The lights that are on are for the layers that will sound when you play. If you hit the layer/active button, some lights will be flashing. This means that they are "activated" in that when you move sliders, it will affect those layers. So let's say you had a lead that used 4 different layers, and you wanted to change the cutoff to all of them. You would switch over to active mode with the lights blinking and make sure all 4 were on, and then whatever the slider did, they all would do. If you only wanted to change 1 or 2 (or 3) layers, you would have their lights on, and the rest of them off.

For effects, you push the effect button. There are two sets of effects, one with distortion, phaser, spectrum, and enhancer, the other with chorus, delay, and reverb. The first menu is the order of the first group of effects. Scroll between them and use the up/down cursor to select a different effect...when you move the cursor it will fall into line ahead of where it is at. Kinda hard to explain but you'll see for yourself real easily. Then the next menu is on/off for all those first effects. 3 and 4 are repeats of this, only with the second group of effects. Then you have a wet/dry mix for the second batch, and then individual pages for each effect where you can tweak them.





So to make a blank patch, select some random sound. Go to effects. Don't worry about the order of any of them, just turn them all off, and then exit the effects menu. Activate all your layers...this is important, because you'll only have to set everything once instead of doing each layer separately. 

Turn the waveform dial so that they are all 1: syn saw. Adjust the pitch coarse and fine tuning to 0 for all of them. Set all the envelopes to do nothing. The pitch envelope, all values should be 0. With the filter envelope, the levels should all be 100, with the times all set at 0. The filter itself should be a LPF at 100, no resonance, no env or aftertouch. Amplitude envelope, same as the filter envelope. Levels at 100, times at 0, except for decay time - make that 0. Sensitivity level is up to you.



But yeah, if you get all the layers active it should be easy enough to figure out how to blank out everything. Then just hit write and choose a number to save that to. Whenever you want to make a patch, start with that blank one, and just save to a different number when you are done.


Also, "common" (by the effect button) allows you to change the patch name and also things like the pitch bend range and what interval the transpose button is set to.