Rhodes Chroma Polaris

> ... But how do you send the patch information over system
> exclusive?  Does anyone know?  The tape backup thing is really iffy.

You can 'send current workspace' over MIDI, which will do a patch dump 
of the current patch (via SYSEX), but beyond that I'm not aware of any 
sequence of steps that will allow you to invoke a SYSEX dump from the 
panel.

By a similar token, I don't believe if it is possible to request a 
complete dump via a single SYSEX command - but it is possible to request 
a patch at a time, and then save them in sequence to form a complete 
dump.

If you have a script-based editor, then you could 'script' the requests 
to get them all.

As there has been a lot of interest recently in people wanting to try 
patches with Sysex vs. the tape inteface, I took a few minutes this 
afternoon and looked to decode a tape dump of factory set 1 and then 
convert it into sysex.

If there's anyone out there who'd like to test it to confirm it 
does/doesn't work, I'd be more than happy to send the SYX file along.