K5synth

Yes, the protect switch has been set to off.  It was like everything was working right, but the end result was wrong.  I tried all sorts of things for two days.

Finally, I found the solution -- use another laptop! In desperation, I downloaded the Kfuenf librarian onto my clunky, slow Acer running Vista.  The first time I tried to upload a patch, it worked.  I can't do a whole bank at a time, but I can get some new sounds in there to replace some lame ones.  I don't know why I can't get a sysex into the k5 using my trimmed down Gateway running XP, on which I regularly run Ableton Live with up to 8 different key and midi controllers without problems.  But since uploading patches is what I do the lease with my setup, I'll gladly just grab the clunker to upload something occassionally, and focus on what I want to do -- make music!

And as I discover when messing around with this thing, it is stupid easy to program.  Compared to the menu-diving rigors of my D-50 or Miniak (with just one knob to control everything!), the page system with a larger display is a joy.  The tutorial in the manual was very helpful.  It's a different kind of machine, for sure. I hope I can get as much use out of it as my others.


--- In k5synth@yahoogroups.com, Antoine Deschênes <antdes45@...> wrote:
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> Hi, is the protect switch on the back set to off?
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> Le 12 juillet 2011 10:21:52, kholt81936 a écrit :
> > Hi there!
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> > I just picked up a K5, decent enough price.  It's in great shape physically, just a dim LED backlight, but it's still quite readable in my studio, so I'm okay with that for now.  What is frustrating me right now is uploading patches into it.
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> > What I have to connect to the synth is Midiquest, fully configured for the K5 (along with my D-50 and DX11 in the studio window), and a copy of the K5 Librarian from the Kfuenf site.  I'm able to do dumps of the bank that's already in there and I now have backups of the data from both programs (Midiquest's is proprietary).  And when I open a patch in Midiquest, I'm able to change the parameters in the patch and change the sounds.  I haven't tried saving the changes yet . . . .
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> > So far, everything works similarly to my other synths.  However, I'm unable to transfer a patch bank from my computer to the K5.  I have
>  both TRS and RCV set to "on" with the proper channels for each.  I select transfer from the program, but nothing happens.  No error messages either.  What am I missing?  My machine has OS v. 1.0.
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> > Something is going on, though.  The patch bank in the machine is not original, and had a patch named "Jupiter" as patch 12 in both banks A and D.  So I used that patch to experiment with, knowing a copy was elsewhere in machine memory.  Somehow, though, and I don't know when or how, patch 1 in bank A was accidentally overwritten -- by "Jupiter".  So now I have three copies.  So I was able to upload at least one patch; probably with the Kfuenf program.
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