Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: Korg Poly800/EX800 Users

hi,

i'm finding it quite confusing trawling through previous messages.

Switched on EX800, all patches just making 'wooshy' noises. Might be
battery out of juice, might be bad midi dump as pc crashed while
midi'd up to unit.

ok, so here's the questions.

1) I've opened up the unit - just off centre there's 2cm ish
diameter silver thing - is this the battery?

2) If yes, it's soldered in - do i need to rip it out and solder a
new one back in?

3)If it's not the battery i'm confused. am i really bad at editing
the sounds as although i try and edit a patch it still maintains
an element of 'whooshyness' and it won't let you edit some of the
parameters? it let's you change simple things like octaves but not
much else.

4) There's a EX800 syx file in the files section - how do i upload
this to the unit to see if it's just the patches that need updated
and not the battery? In fact,just to confirm, does the syx file
contain all patch information? If the answer is 'via a sequencer'
how do i actually do this?

5) Perhaps I need to reload the patches via a sound file? How can i
get hold of this? There seems to be some confusion whether the Poly
wav file works with the ex800 - has anyone actually done this with
the poly file successfully?

Hopefully this FAQ will help loads of people>

cheers in advance...


Tiernan