Elektron Musical Instruments

Hello all!  I haven't posted here for quite some time now, but I figured now was as good of a time as any to fill in all of the north american owners of Elektron Equipment.  Effective immediately, I am now the US based service rep for Elektron ESI.  All repairs for North America will be handled by me, here in Los Angeles.  You will still have to send all repair correspondance to Elektron in Sweden directly, but once they have recieved your information, they will then direct you to send your equipment to me, instead of over seas.  Also, please keep the following in mind.  I am a technician, not a programmer or designer.  Please continue to direct all of your questions regarding operation of the MonoMachine to Daniel at Elektron.  I just fix this stuff!

That said, in regards to the frustrations that Zebra has been having, I can say the following:  I have had to upgrade the OS in a few Mono Machines, and this is what I have found.  I have tried using Mac OSX 10.2.8 with Sysex Librarian.  I have tried Windows 2000 with both MIDI-OX and Windows Media Player.  

The only one that has worked for me thus far has been the Windows Media Player.  

I am using Win 2K with a MidiSport 1x1 USB Interface.  You have to set your prefered MIDI playback device to use the USB interface.  I am very confident Zebra, that if you follow these instructions using your MOTU Fastlane USB interface, that you should have the same success.  This will work for Windows XP as well.

Ok, so, go to 'Start'
Select 'Control Panel'
Select 'Sounds & Audio Devices' (for Windows 2000 users, this is called 'Sounds & MultiMedia')
Across the top, you will see a bunch of tabs.  Select 'Audio'.
At the bottom of the menu, you will see 'MIDI Music Playback'
Select the MOTU Fastlane as your MIDI Device.
Download the latest OS from Elektron - There is a 0.95 now
In that package, once it is un-zipped, you will find a few files.  There will be MMOs0_95.mid, MMOs0_95.sys and MMOs0_95.txt.
Just double click on the MMOs0_95.mid and it should open Windows Media Player for you.  If it doesn't, you can manually open Windows Media Player and then select 'Open' from the file menu.
I am not sure if you get a choice of ports on the 'MIDI Music Playback' selection.  If you don't, then I would assume you would have to have the MonoMachine connected to Port 1 of the Fastlane Interface.  

If this still doesn't work, please feel free to email me with any other questions.

In my opinion, the Monomachine will be one of the next great Synths.  Congratulations to all at Elektron and thank you to all of the Beta Testers for making it what it is today!  

Bryan Stacey Dodds
Elektron ESI, USA

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Brian Siu 
  To: elektron-users@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2003 10:27 AM
  Subject: Re: [elektron] Re: same ol sysex problems on the monomachine<-----------------


  Hey.

  Sounds identical to a problem I was having about a
  month ago.  I got by it by setting the pause between
  messages at 250 ms, transmitting asynchronous. Haven't
  had any problems since then.  If someone mentioned
  this before, my apologies.  

  Hope this helps.

  Brian

  --- zebraoner <zebraoner@...> wrote:
  > this is the 2nd time i had to type all this soooo...
  > 
  > i have windowsxp os (i hope thats what os you mean),
  > a MOTU fastlane-
  > usb midi interface. i make sure the midi out on the
  > interface goes to 
  > the midi in on the monomachine. I load the .95 sysex
  > file in either 
  > midiox with both nums @ 512 and both sizes @ 2048 or
  > I load it in 
  > sendsx (you cant change settings, but thats what i
  > upgraded to .93 
  > with, 1st try, no prob.)
  > i access the early function menu or whatever its
  > called and make sure 
  > its waiting for midi upgrade by pushing trig 5. then
  > i send it. the 
  > computer tells it sends, the interface lights up
  > with a blinking led 
  > meaning it is active.
  > 
  > the 1st led on the left goes orange, then the rest
  > go green from left 
  > to right sequentially, when it reaches the 16th the
  > greens turn off 
  > and the orange turns on next to the 1st orange, the
  > greens go on and 
  > so on.
  > 
  > most times i get a message saying midi transfer
  > failed, switch power 
  > off and try again. sometime the monomachine just
  > freezes, as in the 
  > leds stop lighting up, while the cpu is definitely
  > enaged in its 
  > tranfer. these things dont always happen at the same
  > time during the 
  > process, it varies, sometimes like right off the
  > bat, and i mean like 
  > right when i select send on my pc. the most orange
  > leds i got up to 
  > was something like 4 or 5. i got that post saying
  > that a soft reset 
  > might help, so after an unsuccessful attempt, i
  > reset it, sometimes 2 
  > or three times. sometimes i dont reset, but i still
  > get the same 
  > results (error message or freeze) either way. So
  > basically i do and 
  > observe all that and then repeat.
  > 
  > and this is exactly how i went .93, nothing is
  > different this time 
  > going .95. 
  > 
  > i just remembered that there's a midi file version,
  > how do you use it?
  > 
  > hope thats a lil mor specific.
  > pat
  > 
  > 
  > 
  > --- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, "Roonan"
  > <info@r...> wrote:
  > > --- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, "zebraoner"
  > <zebraoner@y...> 
  > > wrote:
  > > > any suggestions?
  > > > gracias,
  > > > ZEBRA
  > > 
  > > If you  write down exaclty what you do, what kind
  > of OS, midi card, 
  > > patchbay and what you see when things go wrong
  > maybe someone can 
  > > help you. For me the buffer settings did the
  > trick. Just a 
  > > simple "it doesn't work for me" doesn't give me
  > (and others) idea's 
  > > of what can be wrong. 
  > > 
  > > Ronald.
  > 
  > 


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