Elektron Musical Instruments

Some useful things to keep trouble away from your station:
1. To Mark
2. To all those who use The Sidstation with a MPC 2000 (xl)

1. In your case it sounds a little bit worse, but I was shocked too
sometimes
when I set up my live-equipment and the Station showed nothing on the
display. After 5 minutes I noticed that with the transport the
LCD-contrast
knob on the back must have turned to 0 contrast...man, I was happy.
If that doesn´t help, you should try to simply upload the
standard-patches
via midi.

2. YO! I am using my SidStation as main synthesizer for playing live
for almost a year now. Sometimes it happens (i don´t know why)
that it breaks down. My advice: DO BACKUPS of your patches.
So it´s not so hard, bacause you don´t really loose them
---ok, when it breaks down, I really  have a problem.
I put the .syx - files on the Internet to be able to download them
anywhere in the world. But: If you need it- be shure there is
no computer with a midi-soundcard or a connection-cable.
So I was really happy to find out that I can backup my patches
into my MPC 2000xl !.

How to do it: Connect the [out] of the Sidstation to the [in] of the
MPC. Then prepare the MPC to record a Sequence (with 15 Bars or whatever

and e.g. 90 BPM).
Prepare the SidStation to send Sysex (all patches)..
Start recording on the MPC then press send on the Sidstation.
You will notice that the Sequence on the MPC will slow down.
When it´s finished press stop on the MPC -> and save the sequence.
When you want to upload the patches  to the station one time,
simply connect the MPC midi out to the Station´s midi in
and start the sequence on the MPC.
THAT WILL SAVE YOUR LIVE, believe me!

cheers
Slpank!


frank moreno schrieb:

> I had a similar problem once. I reloaded the OS and it worked fine.
>
> frank.
>
> Skin Matrix wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I have been through the weekend that almost killed me.
> > I came out ok, but my sidstation was not so lucky.
> > Last night as my band setup, in the basement of a punk
> > house in West Philadelphia we were just about to teach
> > those punk kids a thing or two about industrial noise
> > when much to my horror I found that my dear Sid had
> > stopped working... and I thougt this weekend couldn't
> > possibly have gotten worse... I tried restarting it
> > no luck all the leds just sat there looking at me, all
> > on none of them wavering in the slightest, the screen
> > lit but just put off a sickly glow... the elektron
> > animation didn't roll across it's screen, I proceeded
> > to hit the X key over and over again hoping (as it
> > sometimes does) that it would correct itself...
> > no such luck... and I thought we were going to have
> > trouble with our mpc2000... I nearly lost my mind.
> >
> > So this is my question... does anyone know what's
> > wrong? All the LED's are lighting up, and the screen
> > is lighting up, but nothing shows up on the screen.
> > It looks like the OS isn't loading... If anyone has
> > any insight let me know... I guess I should probably
> > also send this along to elektron's tech, but they will
> > probably just read it on the list anyway
> >
> > mark
> >
> > =====
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> >
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