Dave Smith Instruments SYNTHESIZERS

Sooo... what you're saying is, "If at first you don't fail miserably, 
try try and try again."  Do we have that right?!  ;)

Seriously, I'm sorry your PIC is toast.  I hope they're not too 
expensive, and/or too difficult to replace.


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 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
> 
> --------------------------------------------------
> 
> 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