Strange saving

When I usually save I just save each sequence on its own, but I went a different way about making my sequences on this beat. I had 8 original tracks on the first sequence and I just copied it 7 more times and added tracks to them and turned off ones not needed from original sequence. When I went to save I figured I'd just save each on it's own I did the first sequence, then when I went to save sequences after it said "sequence of same has already been saved" so I didn't know what the hell that meant so I just went to save all songs and sequences and that worked but then when I went to save all sounds it said disk had used too much memory. This is a new way I'd like to go about making beats but I cant afford to be using 2 disks for each beat, so could someone tell me a more efficent way of saving. Thanks

when you re-saved your sequence you either needed to rename it (good idea) or replace it.

a sequence (.mid) is nothing more than note on/off and sysex information and thus very, very small. I would wager that you could fit every sequence you will make in a year on one floppy if you didn't store anything else on that floppy (like sounds).

also remember when saving programs (.pgm) that you don't need to replace same sounds on disk.
that just make saving them slower.
any changes you made to the sounds on the param screen (tune, filter, decay, etc) are all stored in the program.

Unless you really want to load your sequences into another
sequencer besides the MPC, you should just save a project's
sequences as a ".ALL" file. This saves all seuqences and songs in
the machine at the time of save.

Here is my problem with .ALL
It remebers where your sequences were.

Here is the problem:
Let's say you are an organized person and take the time to name your sequences.
I made a beat the other night called terrorer and saved it as terrorer.mid and saved my program as terrorer.pgm on a floppy. Let's just say it was in the sequence 1 slot on my mpc.

Tonight after work let's say I load up terrorer.pgm and start banging the pads. I come up with a dope beat that might work with my beat from the other night so I record it real fast (to track1 by default).
I decide I want to see how it sounds with my terrorer.mid sequence from the other night so I go to load that to the sequence 2 (unused) slot.
I can toggle between the 2 beats with no problem at all. I am stoked, my song is coming together right?

...

BUT, let's say I had saved it as a .ALL
I cook up a new beat in slot 1 (by default) and go to load up my beat from the other night to see how they go together, or look up a tempo, or anything else really basic.
I load up the .ALL file and guess what?

My old beat loads into slot 1 replacing my brand new unsaved banger.
.all files remember which sequence slots your sequence was in and autoloads them into the same place overwriting whatever is there.

I lost 1 beat that way years ago and have never used a .ALL file since.

Besides I like the flexibility of loading my midi file up in the computer for edits.

uh, when you load an all file it gives you the option to load one sequence or all.

I always save all.