Rhodes Chroma Polaris

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?

> 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@...

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.

-- 

Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco
Paul mailto:pderocco@ix. netcom.com

Another idea is to 'play' it back directly from the computer to the 
Polaris (i.e., Audio from PC directly in to 'cassette in' on Polaris) 
vs. going to the intermediate step of putting it on cassette.

Depending on your setup this may give you a bit more control over the 
levels going into the Polaris, and give you more luck about having it 
load.