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Subject: An1x

From: "Grant Davies" <grant@...>
Date: 2000-05-02

Hi, I just joined the list yesteday and am happy to see a list with some activity. We use an AN1x in our studio for our TV work, and do love it.  I think it gets used in every piece we right, and is just one of those boards that has the right sound for the job.

Unfortunately we have never successfully backed up and restored the An1x. I spent a couple of hours yesterday trying to get it to work.

Using cakewalk's sysex window, I dumped one patch from the an1x, worked fine. I then sent the patch back to an1x and I got an error of "Incorrect size" on the An1x screen. So I edited the ttseq.ini file in cakewalk to slow down the data transfer. This damn the An1x took the patch dump fine, but when you try to play the an1x, its mute.. does nothing, you can change patches but its absolutely mute, and local was ON.

I turn it on and off, and it comes back, but the patch of course is not saved.

To work around this, I did it again, and even though the an1x was mute, I went ahead and stored the patch, turned the an1x on and off and sure enough the patch had sucessfully been dumped back and stored.

Ok, next I try to dump the whole keyboard. First using sysex window in cakewalk. It computer stores the dump fine. When I try to send it back to the An1x, it says "recieving midi dump" but when the computer has finished, the An1x still says "receiving midi dump" and never comes back.

I tried recording the sysex dump from the an1x to a midi track instead at 80bpm. The data dumped fine, but when I set it back to the an1x, it would say "receiving midi dump" and then say "recieved" within a second even though there was another minute or so left of sysex data to dump!

I'm using Cakewalk pro 9.0 I can dump the Prophecy, cs1x, K4 and Nord Lead, and JV1080 perfectly fine. Its just the An1x giving me hell.

Sorry for the long post, but we are really in trouble if we loose all these patches we have tweaked or created.

Thanks
Grant Davies
bluetube productions