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RE: [xl7] Grr!

2004-01-09 by mark sottilaro

Could you have some weird MIDI loop going on?  I had a
hard time getting my maching working one day and I
realized I had created a crazy loop.

Mark

--- erik_magrini@... wrote:
> Thanks for the ideas, but I tried a Reset last night
> and it's still there. 
>  Unless you mean reflash as in reload the OS? 
> Hopefully that fixes it, 
> right now the whole box feels very sluggish, and
> it's hard to work with it 
> like that.  It does seem like I didn't see this
> issues before my last 
> Compact, so hopefully that's what caused it and
> Reflash works.
> 
> rEalm
> 
> 
> 
> 1) Backup all your patches and do a full midi dump
> to a NEW patch library
> (If the patches themselves are corrupted you won't
> want to overwrite your
> old ones) etc.
> 
> 2) re-flash your memory
> 
> What I think it may be is Cell decay (Leading to
> corruption) from the
> various patch writes.  You may be hitting it first
> because you have
> consistently been using your Command Station more
> than most of us on this
> list.  I think that when you reflash it must check
> to see if the cell has
> gone bad and writes to an alternate cell that is
> fine.  The compact
> operation forces a lot of writes across a large
> number of cells, that is 
> one
> of the reasons it isn't an automatic function - and
> it may have been the
> straw that broke the camels back.
> 
> Just a thought,
> Andre
>  
> 
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