Analogue-sequencer

Bob,

Are you booting the P3 into firmware update mode ?
It wont accept a firmware upgrade in the normal sysex bulk receive.
Just in case you missed that in the manual...
Did you hold FUNC + PAGE as you powered on, then press 'flash' ?

Best regards,
Colin Fraser
Sequentix Music Systems Ltd
http://www.sequentix.com
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: analogue-sequencer@yahoogroups.com 
> [mailto:analogue-sequencer@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of 
> bob_at_work_2000
> Sent: 08 September 2010 03:11
> To: analogue-sequencer@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [analogue-sequencer] Re: Mem-x Upgrade, OS 4.5 
> upgrade, Vista and formerly stored P3 sequences....
> 
> OK....any recommendations/ideas here?  Should I do this on an 
> XP PC instead?  I tried the P3Tools version 1.x and it timed 
> out after 14 tries....I see transmit and receive activity on 
> my 1x1 USB MIDI interface....
> 
> Bob
> El Segundo, CA
> 
> --- In analogue-sequencer@yahoogroups.com, "Bob S." 
> <tttsystems@...> wrote:
> >
> > OK...I got through the first steps.   I was able to dump 
> and save my P3 memory to my PC using MidiOx.  I also 
> installed P3 Tools2 on my studio PC, a Vista 64 machine.  It 
> turns out I don't need to install MS .NET Framework on a 
> Vista PC, the tools seem to work fine.  I was able to capture 
> the memory using the P2 Tools2 using that setup.  
> > 
> > Next step was to load the new v4.5 OS to the P3.  That did 
> not work.  After selecting the OS file using the FW option of 
> the Tools2, a few seconds later I get "Failed: 
> Retransmissions Exceeded" I have the simple 1x1 MIDI 
> interface on the P3 MIDI in and MIDI Out #1....is that right? 
>  Seems like the handshake loop is timing out.
> > 
> > I will check the archives and see if anyone else got this error.....
> > 
> > Bob
> > El Segundo, CA
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >   ----- Original Message ----- 
> >   From: Colin Fraser 
> >   To: analogue-sequencer@yahoogroups.com 
> >   Sent: Monday, September 06, 2010 10:26
> >   Subject: RE: [analogue-sequencer] Mem-x Upgrade and 
> formerly stored P3 sequences....
> > 
> > 
> >     
> > 
> > 
> >   > Does anyone the best procedure to do the mem-x upgrade and 
> >   > yet keep the old sequences I have in the P3 unit? Do I have 
> >   > to do a P3 dump to my computer, do the upgrade, then restore 
> >   > back to the P3? Is there another way?
> > 
> >   If you are using v3, I *think* you can take a dump of the 
> memory, then
> >   upgrade it to v4 format using P3 Tools 2 - but it's a 
> long time since I used
> >   it.
> >   P3 needs to be running v4 to make use of the extra memory 
> with MemX, though
> >   there is a patched version of v3 that will work with it.
> > 
> >   Best regards,
> >   Colin Fraser
> >   Sequentix Music Systems Ltd
> >   http://www.sequentix.com
> > 
> > 
> > 
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> > 
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