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

thanks Steve

luckily I had most of the material backed up - lost
one killer seq/pattern however

I think what happened is that I got to 0% mem. too
fast as a result of getting too creative with
recording filter sweeps - first sign of doom was "SAVE
FAILED", and the rest is as I described it

since then I have reloaded only what I absolutely need
to have in the machine, done 2 gigs - and it seems as
robust as ever (hexception the Rotary enoder :0)  -
but the memory shows as 50% ish, all seems well

thanks man!

best

Ed


--- steve_the_composer <smw-mail@...> wrote:

> 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
> >
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 


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