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Re: Poly 800 MKII

2004-10-06 by bluecontrabass

Tried that.  Ran it out of my soundblaster live cranked all the way 
and then out of my Edirol USB interface and still nothing.  It nearly 
blows my headphones it gets so loud. I am still wondering why I don't 
see any signal out when I try to save from the keyboard as well.


--- In korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com, tab27@d... wrote:
> The output needs to be LOUD.  Crank the volume all the way up and 
see if you can't get it to respond.  On mine the LEDs sort of pulse 
when it's receiving data.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: bluecontrabass <splitsun@c...>
> Date: Wednesday, October 6, 2004 2:25 pm
> Subject: [korgpolyex] Poly 800 MKII
> 
> > 
> > 
> > Just got the battery replaced on my Poly, and unfortunately it 
> > lost 
> > all of it memory in the process.  I never had to use the tape 
> > backups 
> > before, but now its pretty helpful to be able to do that.  
> > Unfortunately, I can't get my keyboard to respond to any kind of 
> > input.  I know that my cable is putting out signal (I hear the 
> > lovely 
> > model-like screetch through headphones and see the voltage on my 
> > multimeter) but I can't get a GOOD or ERR indication.  It just 
> > sits 
> > there and taunts me with the LOAD display.  Maybe I'm 
inexperience 
> > at 
> > this, or maybe I'm just dumb, could be both.  So I tried the 
> > reverse 
> > by programming a few sounds in by hand and then trying to save 
> > these 
> > to tape.  The display says SAVE but I get no output out of the 
> > jack.  
> > I can't see anything on my level meters or on multimeter 
measuring 
> > directly off of the out jack.  I have followed my manual and 
tried 
> > a 
> > dozen different cable configurations and patches with the same 
> > result.  Am I just this dumb?  Help!
> > 
> > Nate
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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