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How many GMega and K11 owners are out there??? Patches for free...

2006-04-06 by narfman96

Hi,
  How many members have a GMega or K11 synth? I got a K11 last week 
and what a bear this synth is. I've made a bank of singles up already 
and I found 2 more banks of singles that a K11 owner is going to send 
me from Germany. Now I need to work on some performances. I'll upload 
everything when I get enough of them together...
  Today I took the whole keybed apart and cleaned all the dust 
bunnies out of it. I was having velocity problems with a few keys and 
found half of the plastic squares that activate the rubber membrane 
switches missing from the undersides of the keys but they were 
nowhere to be found. Hmmm... After making some up and glueing them in 
place the keys now play the way they're supposed to. I also replaced 
the battery as it was only 2.7 volts. A new CR2450 and a total reset 
and this synth plays great. Removing the battery left all kinds of 
gibberish in the memory so the reset was necessary.
  I know this synth probably doesn't hold the record but it can dump 
sysex forever. Midiquest errors in the same spot everytime on a total 
dump then recovers on a retry after several long minutes. Then the 
synth just keeps on sending, and sending, and sending. Interesting 
Kawai made a multitimbral GM plus so much more synth and it can't 
send sysex without sending everything everytime???? No ROM update so 
I guess that's it. Does the GMega act any differently? 
  Well sorry for the long post but there isn't much going on here 
anyway. If there are any other fans of these synths, talk it up...
  See ya, Narfman

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