Korg Poly800/EX800 Users

Ive just loaded factory sysex on my poly 800mk2 and when i use prog:66 
and chord memory it crashes. Anyone have any ideas. 
I think its only 66 it does it in
Thanks

I think that's the "Noise of Art" patch but without getting out my 
MarkII I don't remember what it sounded like. What does your Poly do 
when it crashes? I've played around with mine quite a bit and I can't 
ever remember crashing it. I've had it lose its memory after sitting 
for a while but that's about it for BS. If this is repeatable I can try 
loading up the factory patches and see if I can duplicate your 
symptoms. 

--- In korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com, "mark" <freqspec@...> wrote:
>
> Ive just loaded factory sysex on my poly 800mk2 and when i use 
prog:66 

> and chord memory it crashes. Anyone have any ideas. 
> I think its only 66 it does it in
> Thanks
>

Are you sure it wasn't patch 666?

--- In korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com, "narfman96" <narfman96@...> wrote:

>
> I think that's the "Noise of Art" patch but without getting out my 
> MarkII I don't remember what it sounded like. What does your Poly do 
> when it crashes? I've played around with mine quite a bit and I can't 
> ever remember crashing it. I've had it lose its memory after sitting 
> for a while but that's about it for BS. If this is repeatable I can try 
> loading up the factory patches and see if I can duplicate your 
> symptoms. 
> 
> --- In korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com, "mark" <freqspec@> wrote:
> >
> > Ive just loaded factory sysex on my poly 800mk2 and when i use 
> prog:66 
> > and chord memory it crashes. Anyone have any ideas. 
> > I think its only 66 it does it in
> > Thanks
> >
>

I reloaded factory from sysex and voila! Its fine now not that i need a chord of white noise. Ive only had this thing a week and im really pleased with it. It

--- In korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com, Russ <russdaren@...> wrote:
>
> I found out earlier this year (and had it confirmed by others on this board) that sending too 
much midi data can crash a poly 800. Like sending 1 minute's worth of note/pitchwheel in 1 
second.It would wipe out your patches!
> possibly similar?
>

It's a well-known issue with both the Poly-800 and EX-800. Very annoying. It's a major 
reason I was excited about the Hawk-800 mod, in fact. I was never able to use either my P-
800 or EX-800 under sequencer control, because it would periodically crash. Not only that, 
when it did crash, it would overwrite parts of the memory with random data, so I'd end up 
losing all my patches. Happily, after installing the mod, it seems perfectly stable, AND I can 
now tweak parameters from my XStation controller while it plays, which is a bit of a 
revelation!

a|x

I didn't realise that happened with the Mk.II version too. Seems fine  
with the Hawk mod though, as I guess the mod handles all the MIDI  
communication stuff.

a|x

On 11 Nov 2008, at 16:27, rudnicki_marek wrote:

> Hi There,
>
>
> This is the crash which I experience all the time with my MK2.
> Simply no use with comp sequencer.
>
> I belive many of MK2 owners looking forward for HAWK upgrade, to fix
> that issue.
>
> Michael, any chances for us MK2 owners? PLEEEASE?
>
> BRgds
>
>
>
>
> --- In korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com, "Alx" <the_voder@...> wrote:
>>
>> --- In korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com, Russ <russdaren@> wrote:
>>>
>>> I found out earlier this year (and had it confirmed by others on
> this board) that sending too
>> much midi data can crash a poly 800. Like sending 1 minute's worth
> of note/pitchwheel in 1
>> second.It would wipe out your patches!
>>> possibly similar?
>>>
>>
>> It's a well-known issue with both the Poly-800 and EX-800. Very
> annoying. It's a major
>> reason I was excited about the Hawk-800 mod, in fact. I was never
> able to use either my P-
>> 800 or EX-800 under sequencer control, because it would
> periodically crash. Not only that,
>> when it did crash, it would overwrite parts of the memory with
> random data, so I'd end up
>> losing all my patches. Happily, after installing the mod, it seems
> perfectly stable, AND I can
>> now tweak parameters from my XStation controller while it plays,
> which is a bit of a
>> revelation!
>>
>> a|x
>>
>
>

yeah ive got a mk2 and when i shut down logic pro sequencer the other day it sent a large amount of data to it and dumped all the memory. still its so easy