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Re: [xl7] Four Dots ....

2014-02-02 by Jack Pratt

The four dots sounds like the dots that appear during OS upgrade. That would imply that the bootloader is running and not the main OS. Reasons for this could

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RE: Four Dots ....

2014-02-02 by <scottewhitehead@...>

Thanks, team. I m not connected to MIDI at all at the moment. It first manifested while I was so I disconnected but the problem persisted. I ve got the ROM

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Re: [xl7] Four Dots ....

2014-02-01 by Bruno

Hi Scott, I m sorry to hear you experience Four Dots of Doom issue. The advice to reseat the ROMs came from me - my MP-7 did it once and opening it, reseating

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Re: Four Dots ....

2014-02-01 by steve_the_composer

These are the basic diagnostic questions I d ask: (1) Are you using midi, not usb? (2) Do you have full round trip midi (in- out & out - in)? (3) Are you

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Four Dots ....

2014-02-01 by Scott E. Whitehead

Nuts. My MP7 is stalling during boot with just four dots displayed on the screen. I looked in the archives and the suggestion was to reseat the ROM. I tried

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Re: [xl7]

2014-01-28 by Scott E. Whitehead

How about this for a scenario: Take the ROMs out of the XL1 and the MP7 and put them in the P2k? (Three slots, right?) Can one use the MP7 as a controller in

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Re: [xl7]

2014-01-28 by Bruno

2014-01-28 steve_the_composer ... Wow, so it does exist. How do you engage it, and why I couldn t find it in the manual?

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Re: [xl7]

2014-01-28 by steve_the_composer

Quick reply to add a few things; it seems others have supplied most of the answers. (1) Yes, you can put ROMs in a P2K or an XL-1 (or any of the others), but

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Re: [xl7]

2014-01-27 by Scott E. Whitehead

Thanks, all. I appreciate the insight. I ve got a line on a 2000 and a xtreme lead. For my purposes I suppose the hardware on one is better and the Rom on the

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RE: Clicks&pops

2014-01-27 by <fantahs@...>

Take the cover and see the side of the box where the two panel (top and the bottom) is get contacted, scracth the surface with smooth sandpaper and take back

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Re: [xl7]

2014-01-26 by Matt

P.s. you can t use onboard effects to process external sounds

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2014-01-26 by Scott E. Whitehead

Hello, A while back Steve had mentioned that he was mostly using the CS as a sound module which at the time sounded to me like crazy talk given how powerful

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Re: return to command station

2014-01-19 by mark-de-silva@sky.com

Hi Craig. Thanks for the offer but not sure as I have the xk6 rom. what other roms do you have. maybe you have the need for the xk6 rom AND the mo phatt rom??

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Re: Transferring patterns

2014-01-17 by steve_the_composer

Thanks for the link (and for helping Bruno sort it out), and welcome!!! Its late at night here and the white on black is blinding me. I will take a look

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Re: Transferring patterns

2014-01-17 by steve_the_composer

Thanks for the clarification; I think I understand what you are saying about the blocks now. I will have to look at it when my head is less fuzzy. Steve

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Re: [xl7] Re: Transferring patterns

2014-01-16 by Przemysław Węgrzyn

Hi! ... Just in case you want to know more about it, here s a nice description: http://www.slaveksamal.com/files/midispec.htm#nusx_fd This is exactly the

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Re: Transferring patterns

2014-01-16 by steve_the_composer

Yeah. 0x80 - 0xFF are special in midi. 0x7F is the highest single data byte possible--whether its velocity, note, CC value, or sysex data. I don t follow the

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Re: return to command station

2014-01-16 by steve_the_composer

Welcome back, and congrats on your MP-7. Looks like a nice set of ROMs (and other gear to go with the E-Mu)! I d certainly recommend OS2. What OS is in there?

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Re: [xl7] Re: Transferring patterns

2014-01-16 by Bruno

OK, mystery solved: inside of the SysEx blob, no byte can have the most significant bit set. In other words, 7F is the biggest number which can be used *for

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return to command station

2014-01-16 by mark-de-silva@sky.com

Hi, I m sure I used to be a member a few years back when I owned an XL-7 and foolishly sold it.I have now purchased an MP-7 on ebay and have the following ROMS

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Re: Transferring patterns

2014-01-15 by steve_the_composer

Excellent analysis, Bruno. I will probably have to wait until the weekend before I can look at the specifics to confirm what you found and to see what else is

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Re: [xl7] Re: Transferring patterns

2014-01-14 by Bruno

Actually, typing too fast - it s 3784, while the dump here has 32 packets of 127 and one packet of 100 bytes, yielding together 4164 bytes, 380 more than

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Re: [xl7] Re: Transferring patterns

2014-01-14 by Bruno

What comes to my head is: - MThd is wrapped with two 00 bytes - before and after - MTrk is prepended with one 00 byte (if you search for them you will this is

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