The Yamaha AN1x Synthesizer mailing list

--- In AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com, "chili_palmero" 
<chili_palmero@y...> wrote:
> Hello Fellow AN1X'ers!
> 
>   I am a newbie to the list so first off, greetings and 
salutations.  

Welcome to AN1x-list.


> Example 1:
>   I open an .an1 file in the editor and select a patch that looks 
> interesting and hit the send button, the synth says "received" but 
> when hitting the keys on the keyboard I get no sound?  The patch 
name 
> appears but no sound?
> 

Try using the 'Referesh' command.  I don't have AN1xEdit up and 
running in front of me as I write this ;-) and don't recall which 
Menu item you will find this option under...ususally does the trick 
for me.


> Example 2:
>   I double click a patch file or try to dump an entire program to 
the 
> synth and the synths display reads "SysExSize Error".  The AN1X 
> manual says to verify the size?  I get this error a lot when doing 
> various things in the editor...
> 
>   As I said before I'm almost sure these symptoms are related to my 
> not having some parameter set correctly if anyone has any ideas 
> please reply.
> 

These errors occur most likely because of a combination of issues.  
If you search the list archives you will find this is an ongoing 
concern.  To summarize - the AN1x SysEx packets are unusually large 
in comparison to most popular models.  This is an irreversible design 
limitation on Yamaha's part.  If you are using a cheap, low quality 
sound card type MIDI Interface you will undoubtedly experience 
problems with data transfers using AN1xEdit.  Also, data transfers 
using USB MIDI Interface (regardless of platform) can suffer from 
timeouts and dropped packets - often this can be attributed to the 
manufacturer not providing drivers for their devices that work well 
with SysEx.  MIDIMAN MIDI Interfaces have been fairly reliable under 
Windows for SysEx transfers but less so under Mac OS 9 and OS X until 
recently.  Emagic MIDI Interfaces have been reliable on both 
platforms.  Various cross platform Opcode and MIDISport Interfaces 
have worked well but not without some troubleshooting.

> My setup info:
> Windows XP Pro
> MOTU micro lite
> AN1X v1.02
> AN1X Edit v1.1

There has been a growing number of posts to AN1x-list in recent 
months from XP users having difficulties.  No clear pattern has 
emerged but the majority of replies have been from users having no 
issues.  I would suggest you double check the MOTU web site for the 
most current drivers for the Mirco Lite and perhaps reinstall them.  
Also, if you have any other hardware synths you might want to test 
some SysEx dumps from those as well.  Sometimes it's more reliable to 
dump individual voices vs. bulk dumps.

Jon