Rhodes Chroma Polaris

interesting idea...that the signal may be "too unflat". on my new tape ... it was recorded on a good sony 3 head deck... the "old ' cassette i had was recorded directly out of the synth into the old trs-80 recorder..... ill try to create a "low-fi' version....if  it doent work ill go midi, but it worked fine with my older cassette. [perhaps at a lower recording level too...not into  the Plus on the vu meters.]


----- Original Message ----
From: Paul D. DeRocco <pderocco@...>
To: chromapolaris@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 1:24:49 PM
Subject: RE: [chromapolaris] continuing cassette loading issues:

> 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@ix. netcom.com