Casio CZ/VZ Files... part of CZsynth

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> After many frustrating attempts to send sysex patch banks to my VZ-10M, I found a combination that works! I wanted to share my findings with the community so others might avoid injuring themselves/gear/brain cells.
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> Set Exclusive=ENA under Menu 3-04
> Set Internal=OFF under Menu 3-01
> Set Save/Load=LOAD, Card/MIDI=MIDI, Data=VC+OP under Menu 3-02
> Set the MIDI receive channel to 1 under Menu 3-03
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> For some reason, my VZ-10M would show an "Error check system" until I finally set the MIDI receive channel to 1. Don't know why this magically worked, but it did.
> 
> If using MIDI-OX, open the Sysex view and Configure buffers:
> Low level input and output buffers both set to 128 bytes, 8 number.
> Delay between buffers 100, delay after F7 checked and set to 60.
> 
> This also works in Bome's Send SX without any extra changes in that program.
> Thank you to everyone who contributed patch banks. I've tried 3 so far that sound great.
>

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> Nice that you shared those steps. (I have the VZ-8m, so its similar.) The settings are really random, though if you haven't done it in a while, the cheat sheet helps. But if you loose the cheat sheet, knowing what the functions do will help you to reconstruct the proper setup.
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> Here's what the settings are on the VZ-8m:
> The EXCLUSIVE parameter lets you tell the VZ to ignore sysex commands (DIS) or to pay attention to them (ENA).
> The MEM PROTECT parameter lets you tell the VZ to reject (ON) or accept (OFF) changes to memory (stored patches, etc.)
> As for LOAD, you need to match the data type (VOICE, OPMEM, VC+OP, FULL) you are trying to load.
> And, as you discovered, the midi channel also has to match the file.
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> from http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/CZsynth/message/2085
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> Here are the error messages I have been getting when sending VZ sysex
> data to the VZ-8m. (See my previous message about channel and data
> type matching.)
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> Message: --TRANS ERROR--- | CHECK SYSTEM!
> Problem: Data channel <> VZ receive channel
> Solution: Change VZ channel to match sysex file data.
> 
> Message: --MIDI ERROR--- | RECEIVE ERROR
> Problem: Data type transmitted <> Data type expected
> Solution: Select proper data type when loading data type into VZ.
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> I remember when it was a mystery because I didn't understand what the parameters did. And of course, I keep going back to the cheat sheet myself when I have been away from using the VZ.
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> See also: http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/CZsynth/message/2084
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> 02 MEM PROTECT - Switch INTERNAL to OFF
> 04 MIDI CHANNEL - Set midi channel to channel of data
> 05 MIDI DATA - Switch ECLUSIVE to ENA [enabled]
> 03 SAVE/LOAD - LOAD/SAVE > MIDI > [data type] > YES, YES
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> Note: It seems that data type must be matched. In order to
> sucessfully load data that was stored as Voice + Op-Mem data, I had
> to set up the VZ to accept that type of data.
> 
> Look similar?  
> 
> Anyhow--Welcome to the wonderful world of the VZ!! 
> 
> Steve
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> --- In CZ-VZ-Files@yahoogroups.com, <mw9056@> wrote:
> >
> > After many frustrating attempts to send sysex patch banks to my VZ-10M, I found a combination that works! I wanted to share my findings with the community so others might avoid injuring themselves/gear/brain cells.
> > 
> > Set Exclusive=ENA under Menu 3-04
> > Set Internal=OFF under Menu 3-01
> > Set Save/Load=LOAD, Card/MIDI=MIDI, Data=VC+OP under Menu 3-02
> > Set the MIDI receive channel to 1 under Menu 3-03
> > 
> > For some reason, my VZ-10M would show an "Error check system" until I finally set the MIDI receive channel to 1. Don't know why this magically worked, but it did.
> > 
> > If using MIDI-OX, open the Sysex view and Configure buffers:
> > Low level input and output buffers both set to 128 bytes, 8 number.
> > Delay between buffers 100, delay after F7 checked and set to 60.
> > 
> > This also works in Bome's Send SX without any extra changes in that program.
> > Thank you to everyone who contributed patch banks. I've tried 3 so far that sound great.
> >
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