Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

Did you make a back of the patterns before you started having 
problems? My guess is (and it is purely a guess) is that somehow your 
memory got corrupted.  I never faced this problem myself (withthe 
P2500). The worst problem I has was erratic resetting of the unit. I 
opened the unit, made sure all SIMMS were seated properly, and made 
sure the power cord fit snuggly in the back. Those steps worked for 
me, but if your memory somehow got corrupted, I doubt that process 
would help, but who knows.

With big gigs looming, I hope you have a backup of the majority of 
material.

Out of curiosity, was there a sudden, inexplicable jump down to 0%, 
or was it gradual and consistent with the amout of data you recorded? 
In recent days the the unit go through the compacting process?

This may be a matter for Aaron, but I am wondering if this was just a 
fluke because memory was low (and fragmented) and the unit didn't 
have an opportunity to clear up enough free memory to do what you 
were currently working on thereby causing some pointers (or something 
to be overwritten).  Note: this is purely a guess, but if you have a 
complete (or near complete) backup, and this is indeed the cause of 
the problem, IF all chance of recovery is lost, perhaps you could 
clear memory with a reset and reload all (or most) of the backuped up 
data.

Of course, if it is an overwrite problem, one question is: Could OS 
memory have become compromised somehow? If so, maybe you could try 
reinstalling the OS first and see if that restores the lost patterns.

I really haven't the foggiest idea, and I am hoping others have 
better suggestions, but since you are so close to gigs, I thought I'd 
offer at least some speculation, for what its worth.

Hope you can get your sequences back with minimal extra work.  Good 
luck.

--Steve 

 

 
 
--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "gongworks" <gongworks@y...> wrote:
>
> Greetings Experts -
> 
> Strange happening w/my XL-7, I appreciate all input, big gigs 
looming
> in a few days. 
> 
> Here is what I notice, over a period of a few days:
> 
> 1) a particular Sequence would not Save ("failed") - others 
however, I
> could edit and save OK.
> 
> 2) In Pattern Window -  memory started to show as "0%" - all 
patterns
> were present and accounted for - I could still edit and save 
> 
> 3) All Patterns in banks 1-7 now gone (they were there yesterday),
> Bank "0" remains intact 
> 
> 4) Was able to succesfully download part of a pattern-bank from
> E-loader - seemingly can no longer do this - trying to figure out 
what
> is going on again as soon as I post this 
> 
> thanks in advance!
> 
> vi-best,
> 
> Ed Mann
>