[sdiy] D50 patch loading...

[Ben Lincoln]

Hi Bob.

This is probably a dumb question given your extensive background, but 
are you sure you need to do anything on the D50 side of things? I've 
worked with a lot of late 80s/early-to-mid 90s synths (although not as 
many Roland models as other brands), and with one or two possible 
exceptions I never had to touch the synth to get it to load patches via 
SysEx. I would just send the patches from SoundDiver or the sequencing 
program itself and the synth would happily receive them.

I did briefly have a hardware bulk dump backup device where the load or 
save had to be initiated from the synth that was connected to it, but it 
doesn't sound like you're using one of those.

- Ben

Bob Weigel wrote:
> I can't figure this out nor can Roland's peole.  I'm using an old 
> midiman serial-midi port.  I can load sounds and just did to a DX7II 
> FD (though I have to figure how to get them all in there.  DX7 patches 
> will only load to 33- 64 or whatever.)
>
> But on the D50 with mem protect off every time I go bulk load while 
> holding the data transfer or not after 'enter' at the question whether 
> you really want to do this, it just says 'midi communication error'.
>
> Anyone experienced this?  I recall doing a D550 years ago for Ron 
> Strykert which had to have the transfer button held while it was 
> xfering.  But that doesn't seem to help here or maybe something is in 
> the wrong order.  I dunno. -Bob
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