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Subject: Re: Help Poly 800 no sound

From: "ancer13" <ancer13@...>
Date: 2001-12-29

Thanks for the help but i have no luck.




--- In korgpolyex@y..., "dburga01" <darrell@p...> wrote:
> > 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@p...