Korg Poly800/EX800 Users

tooeglick was very thourough.  But perhaps one more thing.  You must 
make sure that what you're programming will actually produce a 
sound.  If you could find the settings for one single sound, then 
your test would be valid. I've often thought my battery was gone and 
then simply reloaded tape and worked fine.  John in Crazy Ca. (a 
suburb of Loco Ca.)

--- In korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com, "chrislohass" <tiernan@t...> wrote:
> 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