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Thanks to you all I found what I'd need to make my win XP laptop 
interface w/ AN1X (i.e., had original editor on win 98 machine that 
died over a year ago, but found out about stand alone version of AN 
Expert Editor etc from you guys).

I wanted to use the AN1X's step sequencer to help me program bass 
lines, and so far, w/ the rest/velocity thing and some tweaks to my 
hardware sequencer's "swing", things are working out well. 

With everything going swimmingly and less intimidated by midi and 
the AN1x interface than I was a couple years back—not to mention the 
way the sound sits in my mixes far better—I decided to swap the AN1x 
for my JP-8K in my live rig.

So, with thanks to you all again, I was off to find voice sets.  
First I found that I had to change the name of the files from *.an1 
to *AN1 for the AN Expert to find them. Is this the correct 
approach?  

Now the real problem. About 70-80% of my newly dl'ed patches cause 
midi note hangs.  An important troubleshooting note here is that 
**none of the patches in the AN Expert Editor "user" portion of the 
library (i.e., 001: Metallic) cause this to happen. **  (As an 
important aside, perhaps, I DO get a "check sum" error when loading 
ANY voice, i.e., either the user voices that came in AN Expert 
Editor or the dl'ed voices.  Plus, voices in 1 or 2 from AN Expert 
won't load either, but I assumed this was normal b/c they were AN200 
specific.) 

Anyhow, thanks again for this serious knowledge-base and THANKS IN 
ADVANCE for any/all insights.  I know I have other questions, but 
we'll leave it at this for now.

Thanks again and keep on tweaking on.

--- In AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com, "tammkyle" <tammkyle@g...> wrote:
> 
> So, with thanks to you all again, I was off to find voice sets.  
> First I found that I had to change the name of the files from 
*.an1 
> to *AN1 for the AN Expert to find them. Is this the correct 
> approach?  
> 

How odd, in theory it shouldn't be necessary.  It's either a quirk 
in how AN Expert Editor "see's" .an1 files or perhaps a remnant of 
how the file type is recognized after being decompressed from 
an 'old' .zip format under a current OS.


> Now the real problem. About 70-80% of my newly dl'ed patches cause 
> midi note hangs.  An important troubleshooting note here is that 
> **none of the patches in the AN Expert Editor "user" portion of 
the 
> library (i.e., 001: Metallic) cause this to happen. **  (As an 
> important aside, perhaps, I DO get a "check sum" error when 
loading 
> ANY voice, i.e., either the user voices that came in AN Expert 
> Editor or the dl'ed voices.  Plus, voices in 1 or 2 from AN Expert 
> won't load either, but I assumed this was normal b/c they were 
AN200 
> specific.) 

You shouldn't be using AN Expert Editor with the AN1x.  It is 
intended for use with the PLG150-AN and AN200 and does not deal with 
the AN1x SysEx ID as it does either of the other two devices.  This 
is likely why you receive the chronic "check sum" error and 
unpredictable results of voices transferred to your AN1x.  AN1xEdit 
is capable of handling SysEx transfers correctly to all three 
devices, and with the exception of XGWorks file types, it is 
proficient at interpreting the different archictectures of AN1x vs. 
PLG150-AN.  Suggest you read over the help files in AN1xEdit as it 
summarizes the differnces quite thoroughly.
 
regards,

Jon