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

I seem to recall my CS only had 78% memory when brand new out of the box.  That's not a defect as far as I know.

--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, Bruno <brunorc@...> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> 
> 2012/8/4 woodsworth1@... <woodsworth1@...>:
> > The flash in the emu products is nor flash which will have 10000 or 100000 erase cycle tolerance after which you won't be able to write any more. There is no controller chip and likely no software to detect and work around sectors that fail.
> 
> Thanks! 10.000 cycles should be enough for eve... well, for me at least.
> 
> > This is highly unlikely to be a cause of the problem and comoaction should be the solution.
> 
> That's what I did, but eventually resorted to "scorched soil"
> solution, initializing all the user data. What surprised me though was
> the 78% amount (one would expect 100% or something near) after
> flushing all the user space.
> 
> BTW: I only cared about patterns, since I'm working in a project with
> another CS owner and we syncronize our stations using Dropbox &
> E-Loader. We decided not to use our own sounds for this, at least now.
> For the future we may resort to syncing SysEx dumps of user banks &
> multisetups.
> 
> Anyone else is using CS for such a cooperation? I would be interested
> to hear about your experience.
> 
> Thank you again for all the hints,
> 
> Bruno
>