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Subject: Re: Help Poly 800 no sound

From: "dburga01" <darrell@...>
Date: 2001-12-28

> Batt is new and still wont save any sounds.
> > >I have this one for a while now but has no sound everything
works like
> > >i can used it as a midi controller and evrytime i upload a ∗sys
> > >sometimes work sometimes dont i know a eletonics stuff but no
idea
> > >about synt stuff any help would help and the sound it make is
wooshing
> > >oscillation lots. thank your very much for the help
> >
> > sounds like you just lost the memory...happens a lot

I had a similar problem when I first bought my EX800. Now, the
battery in mine is long gone, so maybe it's not the same situation
(does ANYONE know where I can buy a battery for this thing?!?!), but
I discovered that many of the syx banks for the EX800 on the net are
not readable by my EX800. Perhaps they are for the Poly800II or
something, I dunno. But in any event, I get the same exact
symptoms. I'll send the syx bank to the EX800, then when I try to
play anything I just get fairly faint swirly white noise. What's
worse, is thereafter even if I send a ∗good∗ syx bank to the EX800,
it won't read it. I guess the OS gets befuddled or something. I
have to turn the EX800 off and then on again to get it to take.

I put a file in this group under the "palancar" folder which does
work - try resetting your EX800 then sending this file to it and see
if that helps.

Oh, one other thing: be sure to set the value of parameter 86
to "1", or you can send syx to it all day and it'll never take.... :-
)

Hope this helps,
Darrell
http://www.ampcast.com/palancar
darrell@...