Background: Played a DW8000 in the local music shop back in the mid 80's and stated:"I GOTTA GET ME ONE OF THESE!!!" but the bucks ($$) weren't there for a father of four so I put it aside. Fast Forward to Today: With my youngest graduating college next week, I'm picking up where I left off. Buying what I've always wanted... Guitars, Amps, a Hammond (& Leslie, of course), then... I ran across an old DW8K in a 2nd hand music store (enter: Choir, heavenly music, etc.). It was pretty hammered but sounded JUST AS COOL as day 1. Found a good one on ebay and it's mine, all mine. Now, let's get to the gritty... I was fortunate enough to print out the DW8K manual ONE DAY before divinemasquerade.com bit the dust (what a shame)! I've resurrected an old AT333 PC (Win98SE) and am in the process of trying to get aruggeri's software functional (yes, I've heard about the win98 trouble) but this seems to work somewhat for me... I think. I say "I think" because I'm a MIDI novice. Put me behind the backside of an A- 100 and I'm right at home. With PC's and MIDI... duh????? I get the Live Patch page to work, I don't seem to understand setting up the sysex files for a 64 patch download. It says it goes, but I only change 1 channel not 64. If I leave that channel and come back, it reverts back to the original sound (I guess this is where write/enable comes in?). There are some other questions about when the MIDI cables are hooked up and doing screwy things with the keyboard, but I've taken up enough space. I wouldn't be surprised to hear "Ho.. Hum.. how many times do we have to go over this?" but, any help would be appreciated... even off line.
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A little help along the way...
2004-05-07 by a_deuteronomy