New HAWK software version now available...
2013-02-01 by Michael Hawkins
For those of you interested, I have posted a new version of the HAWK software.
It contains a few improvements but nothing major. The improvement that is most useful to me and which I think you all might find most useful is that you can move from Tools mode to normal operating mode much easier. In short, you can jump out of tools mode and back into normal operating mode by pressing the "Bank Hold" button. No longer do you have to go through the entire Poly restart cycle. What a pain that was.
The other useful change is that when you receive a HAWK patch bulk dump, global 13 (bank select) determines the destination bank into which the patch bulk dump will be saved.
So with that feature and the quick in and out from Tools to normal mode and back again, getting those pesky bulk dumps out and in to the right places is much easier.
You must upgrade your boot code to version 1.98 before you upgrade the flash software to version 2.55. And remember that you can always go back to previous versions of software if you have problems with the new code.
It contains a few improvements but nothing major. The improvement that is most useful to me and which I think you all might find most useful is that you can move from Tools mode to normal operating mode much easier. In short, you can jump out of tools mode and back into normal operating mode by pressing the "Bank Hold" button. No longer do you have to go through the entire Poly restart cycle. What a pain that was.
The other useful change is that when you receive a HAWK patch bulk dump, global 13 (bank select) determines the destination bank into which the patch bulk dump will be saved.
So with that feature and the quick in and out from Tools to normal mode and back again, getting those pesky bulk dumps out and in to the right places is much easier.
You must upgrade your boot code to version 1.98 before you upgrade the flash software to version 2.55. And remember that you can always go back to previous versions of software if you have problems with the new code.
Get the zip file here - https://sourceforge.net/projects/hawk800/files/Software/Version%202.55/
The other good news is that I have finally updated the owners manual. So it is
now as recent as it comes. For those of you that like the sequencer, check out the new real time edit functions.
Enjoy!
Mike