On Sat, 2010-03-27 at 06:56 +0000, zoinky420 wrote:
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> --- In korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com, Gordon JC Pearce <gordon@...> wrote:
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> >
> > >
> >> Do bear in mind that as soon as you send any MIDI traffic to the
> > Poly-800 you'll lose the top eight patches ∗anyway∗...
> >
> >
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> why does that happen??
>
Firmware bug, only in the Poly 800 Mk 1. Basically if you fling a lot
of MIDI messages at it, the message buffer overflows and starts to
clobber patch data. It's fixed in the Mk 2, but it would be nice to
have a bugfixed Mk 1 ROM. One day...
Gordon MM0YEQ