[sdiy] U-20 initialisation and backups

[Gabriel Lindeborg]

Try: http://www.sysexdb.com/synth_detail.asp?dv=92


//Gabbe

WeAreAs1 at aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 6/23/05 4:43:47 AM, dragon.servicing at virgin.net writes:
> 
> << Dear Tony and list,
> I think you do have to be carefull initialising some of the keyboards 
> from this vintage, as sometimes some ( all ?) of the preset sounds are 
> held in ram,and the initialisation precedure only loads a couple of 
> these not the whole lot. >>
> 
> YES!!!  Peter is quite correct about this.  More importantly, this is the sad 
> case with the U-20.  If you reinitialize it, you will lose ALL of the patches 
> (well, actually, they'll become the same useless "INIT PATCH"...)  You would 
> need to reload the patches via MIDI Sysex.  I don't know where you'd get that 
> data, and there was never a ROM card that contained the factory patches.
> 
> Michael B.
>