Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

Hi Ski -

>WOW!  You powered down the Evolver during the upgrade and lived to
>tell?!  ...when Dave's instructions specifically said, "Thou shalt
>not remove the power source from thy Evolver during the sacred
>procedure"?
>
>You have some seriously large copper/zinc alloy spherical objects!

Yeah - My mother used to tell me not to stick metal objects into the power
outlets too, but I always did and it hasn't affected me a bit.  (druel,
manic grin)

I kept trying different things to see if I could get the upload to the
Evolver to work.  Mac, PC, several different programs.  The Evolver would
always count down, but then just freeze with 99 on the display.  I would
then have to unplug it before I could get it to respond again.  I did this
at least twenty five times trying various things.

Then, after I read your message "large copper/zinc alloy spherical objects"
(grin), I read the message about making sure you don't have any other
input, like active sensing, going on.   Cool, I thought, maybe thats it.
So I switched off my PC88 going into the PC and fired up MidiOx to upload
it.  Shit!    Same damn thing.  Count down, 99, no binary counting, yank
the plug.  Plug it back in . . .  and it doesn't come back up.
AAAAAAAAKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!      Gee, I guess it was working after all.  I'm
bummed.   Hi ho, hi ho, it's back to Dave it goes.    OK, OK,  I'm the
dumb-shit poster boy of the day.  Move along folks, these are not the
droids you are looking for.

So,   Stefan Weber, who was having the same problem I was,   make sure the
Evolver is not getting any active sensing AND give it time to do it's thing!

I guess I better email Dave and get him to send me a programmed PIC.
Maybe tommorrow will be a better day.
G'nite  -  Robert

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WOW!  You powered down the Evolver during the upgrade and lived to
tell?!  ...when Dave's instructions specifically said, "Thou shalt
not remove the power source from thy Evolver during the sacred
procedure"?

You have some seriously large copper/zinc alloy spherical objects!

Kidding aside, I AM surprised that your Evolver still works.  I can't
imagine why the procedure didn't work, unless a) you just needed to
wait longer, or b) you still need more and/or larger output buffers.
You DID adjust the OUTPUT buffers, and not the INPUT buffers, right?

I actually had the same problem the first time I tried to upgrade to
v1.4, but it was because I hadn't adjusted the output buffers.  I
thought my Evolver PIC/DSP chips were hosed, but I simply performed
the procedure again (*without* powering off/on) after adjusting the
buffers, and everything went fine.

You may want to try more and/or larger buffers, but I'd probably
email Dave on this one.  Best of luck!


Ski
www.ex5tech.com
EX5Tech Evolver forum:
http://www.ex5tech.com/ex5ubb_cgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=forum&f=23


--- In DSI_Evolver@yahoogroups.com, Robert Shanks <synthlab@n...>
wrote:
> Hi all -
>
> I seem to be having problems with updating the Evolver OS.  I have
OS 1.0
> for the PIC and 1.0 for the DSP.  Evolver #007.   I'm using MidiOx
with the
> 1024/128 output buffers as Ski suggested.  The Evolver counts down
from 31
> to 0, but then just shows 99 and freezes up until you pull the
power plug.
> Everything comes back up fine when you repower, but I sure would
like to
> try out that new OS and bank o' patches.  (Are the new patches from
> Evolutionaries?  If so, I've got that.)
>
> Anyway...  I thought I'd ask here before I email Dave.
>
> Thanks - Robert