Korg Poly800/EX800 Users

hi,

i'm finding it quite confusing trawling through previous messages.

Switched on EX800, all patches just making 'wooshy' noises. Might be 
battery out of juice, might be bad midi dump as pc crashed while 
midi'd up to unit.

ok, so here's the questions.

1) I've opened up the unit - just off centre there's 2cm ish 
diameter  silver thing - is this the battery?

2) If yes, it's  soldered in - do i need to rip it out and solder a  
new one back in?

3)If it's not the battery i'm confused. am i really bad at editing 
the sounds as  although i  try and edit a patch it  still maintains 
an element of 'whooshyness' and it won't let you edit some of the  
parameters? it let's you change simple things like octaves but not 
much  else.

4) There's a EX800 syx file in the files section - how do i upload  
this to the unit to see if it's just the patches that need updated 
and not the battery? In  fact,just to confirm, does the syx file 
contain all patch information? If  the answer is 'via a sequencer' 
how do i actually do  this?

5) Perhaps I need to reload the patches via a sound file?  How can i 
get hold of this? There seems to be some confusion whether the Poly 
wav file works with the ex800 - has anyone actually done this with 
the poly file successfully?

Hopefully this FAQ will help loads of people>

cheers in advance...


Tiernan