The Yamaha AN1x Synthesizer mailing list

Hi,

this is in response to a quite old thread (january 2003) i found 
searching the archives.

it just happened that i had to re-install my pc (windows, you know..), 
and since i don't use any "old" programs like cubase vst any longer i 
decided to skip my second partition running under win98 and install 
win2k all over the place. bad idea.
last night i hooked up my an1x to an1xedit for the first time and 
tried to bulk read all patches from the synth. as described in the old 
thread, the program only received the first patch, then delivered a 
midi error and wouldn't read any more patches. restart an1x, read the 
next patch and the next after that - midi error. sending patches to 
the synth is no problem just reading them. needless to say that 
sounddiver and cubase can both, read and write, single patches, 
multiple patches, whatever.
if the sounddiver implementation of an1x wasn't so poor i would leave 
it at that, but the an1xedit interface is so much better.

what i want to ask is:
- has already someone come up with a solution? has it probably 
something to do with a bad midi interface (i'm using a SBLive w/ 
drivebay and the latest drivers)?
- do i otherwise really have to revive my win98 machine just for this 
one program?

please say it ins't true!!

- Lothar -

--- In AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com, Bruce Wahler <bruce@a...> wrote:

> I've never had this happen with Win98SE, but it happens all the time 
in Win2K SP2 with my legacy (joystick/MPU-401) port, and occasionally 
with my MIDIman 2x2USB, particularly since I upgraded to the 
multi-client driver.  One or two patches get sent to the port, then 
nothing more, and I have to close down the application manually.  I 
believe that it's a driver issue, and I'm even willing to buy that 
it's really the drivers' fault -- but it seems to only happen with 
AN1xEdit.  Everything else I use is fine -- Cakewalk, Cubase, Media 
Player.  Are you accessing the MIDI driver in a unique way, compared 
to other music programs?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -BW
> 
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> Bruce Wahler
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