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--- In AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com, "tammkyle" <tammkyle@g...> wrote:
> 
> So, with thanks to you all again, I was off to find voice sets.  
> First I found that I had to change the name of the files from 
*.an1 
> to *AN1 for the AN Expert to find them. Is this the correct 
> approach?  
> 

How odd, in theory it shouldn't be necessary.  It's either a quirk 
in how AN Expert Editor "see's" .an1 files or perhaps a remnant of 
how the file type is recognized after being decompressed from 
an 'old' .zip format under a current OS.


> Now the real problem. About 70-80% of my newly dl'ed patches cause 
> midi note hangs.  An important troubleshooting note here is that 
> **none of the patches in the AN Expert Editor "user" portion of 
the 
> library (i.e., 001: Metallic) cause this to happen. **  (As an 
> important aside, perhaps, I DO get a "check sum" error when 
loading 
> ANY voice, i.e., either the user voices that came in AN Expert 
> Editor or the dl'ed voices.  Plus, voices in 1 or 2 from AN Expert 
> won't load either, but I assumed this was normal b/c they were 
AN200 
> specific.) 

You shouldn't be using AN Expert Editor with the AN1x.  It is 
intended for use with the PLG150-AN and AN200 and does not deal with 
the AN1x SysEx ID as it does either of the other two devices.  This 
is likely why you receive the chronic "check sum" error and 
unpredictable results of voices transferred to your AN1x.  AN1xEdit 
is capable of handling SysEx transfers correctly to all three 
devices, and with the exception of XGWorks file types, it is 
proficient at interpreting the different archictectures of AN1x vs. 
PLG150-AN.  Suggest you read over the help files in AN1xEdit as it 
summarizes the differnces quite thoroughly.
 
regards,

Jon