Rhodes Chroma Polaris

> From: spistrich
> 
> now im  having problems loading  the  patches taken off the 
> rhodeschroma site...
>  I can get my old cassette to load, but it skips the  6 or so 
> sounds on 
> the damaged tape area offsetting the sequence of programs by those 6 
> missing spots. (I had recorded this out of my polaris for 
> backup when i 
> worked on its voices -that went fine).  The problem is now after I 
> downloaded the 'new' factory patches from the polaris site and  
> transferred them to a  new  cassette on my home stereo deck ,  but 
> whenever i try to load them  with my radio shak  trs-80  it cuts out 
> with a honk after 1-5 patches have been loaded... Ive checked 
> the "verify' and it doesnt seem to acknowlege the new  cassette tape 
> signal from the download, in contrast , it does blink to 
> verify my old 
> cassette. The signal levels on the 2  tapes  seem similar. it is 
> getting frustrating...any ideas as to why the polaris doesnt like the 
> download cassette? 

It was always a hairy-edge technology. What makes the cassette interface not
work is waveform distortion in the cassette recorder. If the machine has
Dolby or any kind of auto-leveling function, turn it off. If that's no help,
it may just be that the frequency response of that particular cassette
recorder is too un-flat, and you'll never get it to work. You could always
try a different recorder.

Since the Polaris has MIDI, it's always better to use that.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
Paul                mailto:pderocco@...