Midi Patch Bay Recommendations
2007-01-07 by house_of_black_dress
Hello - I am a recent polaris owner and my midi setup has outgrown my midiman 2x2. Can anyone recommend a midi patch bay that would work well with cubase?

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2007-01-07 by house_of_black_dress
Hello - I am a recent polaris owner and my midi setup has outgrown my midiman 2x2. Can anyone recommend a midi patch bay that would work well with cubase?
2007-01-02 by synthwookie
I finally got yahoo groups going again. Years ago something happened where I couldn t get email responses from yahoo when I d sign up and I finally threw my
2006-12-30 by David Clarke
... While the description on Ebay does say Chroma Polaris, the oictures are of a Rhodes Chroma I/O board (more specifically a Chroma Expander I/O board -
2006-12-30 by Astraeus000@aol.com
Tonight after opening up my Polaris to check out the appearance of my batteries, I noticed that after closing it back up suddenly, the A vertical row of
2006-12-30 by Chris Ryan
Not mine. Item #140069125546. Starting bid US$25. Chris
2006-12-01 by David Clarke
... This really sounds like a classic case of the reset level adjustment ( DC OK Threshhold ) on the power supply being off. Specifically, it could be a
2006-12-01 by Astraeus000@aol.com
Did you open it up and check to make sure that the internal battery hasn t had a meltdown on the CPU board?? Unfortunantly this is the case with many old
2006-12-01 by Paul D. DeRocco
... The computer simply isn t running. There are lots of things that could cause this, but at the very least you should open it up and reseat all connectors.
2006-11-30 by Bob
Hi there. I just got a Chroma Polaris on Ebay, and it isn t working right. When you turn it on many of the led s light up, but the same ones don t come on
2006-11-16 by David Clarke
... If you can t find one elsewhere, let me know (I think I have a spare half-panel for a Polaris tucked away somewhere - but I d have to go looking for it.)
2006-11-15 by bkuris
If anyone has a spare slide pot from a polaris or knows of a replacement, please contact me. Thanks, Ben
2006-11-14 by David Clarke
Following up to my own note, if you just want to do button presses, then you won t have to do an open first; rather, you can just do a send message
2006-11-14 by alex459686
many thanks for the info . ill give it a try when i get a spare minute . ... fingers crossed .
2006-11-12 by David Clarke
... It s been a while since I attempted to talk to the Polaris via Sysex, but I believe that the format was SYSEX Start (F0) Fender ID (08) Channel Number
2006-11-11 by alex459686
hi im having a lot of trouble understanding what sysex data i need to send to the polaris . i have read the midi manual but am still confused. what data do i
2006-11-09 by teknowh0re_1999
Sorry, I m unclear on whether this will work on PC? ... your desired midi port ... controlling the bank ... appreciate it . . . i hope to ... help please get
2006-11-09 by alex459686
hi heres the link to the first editor/controller http://rapidshare.com/files/2633908/polariscontroller.zip.html you will need to go to midisetup in the
2006-11-08 by Edo
I m very interested! ... From: alex459686 To: chromapolaris@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 12:52 PM Subject: [chromapolaris] max polaris
2006-11-08 by Brinkmann Music
I d try it as an app. I use os x or classic. Thanks ... From: chromapolaris@yahoogroups.com [mailto:chromapolaris@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of alex459686
2006-11-08 by alex459686
hi i managed to repais some of my buttons using the trim and reconnect flex method . but the far right side is lost again . anyway , i have completed my
2006-11-05 by Chris Ryan
There s a Polaris for auction at spheremusic.com (UK). Lot 5227. Excellent working order and very nice condition (if a bit dusty). Chris
2006-11-05 by alex459686
im sorry to sound like a parrot . my polaris II finally arrived, and of course it suffers from the membrane death, which im assuning is usually cracks in the
2006-11-01 by Chris Ryan
This month s update to the Rhodes Chroma site is Chroma to Chroma Interface Lead, a wiring diagram and notes by Martin Straw for Chroma-to-Chroma
2006-10-31 by alex459686
hi i love in japan and am buzzing after just winning a POLARIS II on an auction site here . as the chroma price at five G (tokyo synth shop) is out of my
2006-10-30 by lennox_ws
Hi, im new at this forum, im interested in buying a Chroma II nearby Holland. Do yo happen to know someone who selling his? please contact me. Thanks!!
2006-10-12 by bkuris
I had to mix-and-match slider boards between 2 of my Polaris keyboards after I lost Slider Depth function on one. An interesting note is that the donor
2006-09-01 by David Clarke
... To try to rule in/rule out if there could be something funny with the program memory, perhaps the easiest thing to do (and this is something that the
2006-09-01 by teknowh0re_1999
Location is Columbus, OH. I m asking $150 and local pickup. I ve not got the time or patience to deal with this thing anymore, so it s time to move it along to
2006-08-31 by spistrich
My polaris seems to have what has been described here as the bad S+H capacitor permanently detuned scale problem .... this appeared when i got it back from
2006-08-25 by Jericho Gustave
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2006-08-10 by Paul D. DeRocco
... There s no alternative but to poke around with a scope. It sounds like the usual bad capacitors in the sample-and-hold circuits, but step one is always to
2006-08-10 by Tom Krotchko
I m responding via email, but it sounds exactly like the problem I m having with mine. On mine, I think the last two oscillators aren t working correctly, if
2006-08-10 by spistrich
Could this be similar to the previous problem in message #325... but we describe it a little diffrently?
2006-08-10 by spistrich
I just got my polaris back from a repair shop that did some surgery to replace the assignable slider and swap a front panel that had switch problems. ( parts
2006-08-10 by spistrich
I just got my polaris back from a repair shop that did some surgery to replace the assignable slider and swap a front panel that had switch problems. ( parts
2006-08-06 by Paul D. DeRocco
... How did you diagnose that? Are there only one or two bad switches? A break in a line on the tail can take out either five or eight switches on the right
2006-08-06 by bkuris
I have 2 CPs where the switches themselves have worn out. -Ben ... suspect ... repairable by ... that ... then
2006-08-05 by David Clarke
... The silver ink ideawill work for some of the boards, but the main (catastrophic) problem is that the flex becomes so brittle that it will actually
2006-08-05 by Tom Krotchko
Unfortunately, I don t have access to a scope which makes it difficult to diagnose . --Tom ... From: Paul D. DeRocco Reply-To:
2006-08-04 by Paul D. DeRocco
... Has anyone ever figured out where the problem actually is? I would suspect cracks in the silver ink where the tails flex. This could be repairable by
2006-08-04 by Paul D. DeRocco
... Do you have access to a scope? You can tell if the problems are in that area by looking at the outputs of the sample-and-hold buffers (Zx03 and Zx04). If
2006-08-04 by David Clarke
... The same fella/company (chipforbrains/technologytransplant) also has panels for the Sequential Prophet-600, and I d have to guestimate that the number of
2006-08-04 by Tom Krotchko
I purchased a Polaris off the analog list less than a year ago. The thing is in almost perfect shape except that it appears two of the oscillators won t come
2006-08-04 by bkuris
That sounds like a setup/utility option-- do you have a manual handy? You want to look up the MIDI section and enable control changes. -Ben ... utilized, I
2006-08-04 by bkuris
I think this falls in my area of expertise as I m been doing prototype HW design and research for the last 10 years for several fortune 50 companies... The
2006-08-04 by teknowh0re_1999
While the membranes aren t necessary if MIDI control can be utilized, I have a situation where most MIDI messages are not recognized by my Polaris, other than
2006-08-04 by spistrich
Would there be enough demand for an electronics manufacturer to make a run of replacement switch panels for the polaris? Membrane switches are basically cheap,
2006-08-03 by maxsmerling
Don t hold me to this but I might have a use for those with dead membrane switches. Due to the remarkable and unheard of midi implementation (even for today),
2006-08-03 by teknowh0re_1999
Got one here in Columbus, with serious membrane death. I purchased mine from some guy in Erie, Penn. about a year ago for $125. ... switches)
2006-08-03 by Kraig
There are a few floating around in rochester NY. I had one and the house of guitars had a broken one for years and I saw one at soundsource for sale for 220.00