Elektron Musical Instruments

On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 06:25:35PM -0000, Eddy wrote:
>    In the past some patches have been corrupted because of this but i
>    simply loaded them back in via sysex dump, this does not work anymore.
>    my sid seems to have died and has no patches on it :(
>    Any suggestions or help would be much appreciated

grrrr...this is the problem: the Sidstation only has 99 patches and the
OS doesn't take the value of the patch change number modulo 99. Doing so
would wrap 100 around to 0, 101 to 1, etc.  Because of this, if you
try to access a patch greater than 100, you start corrupting the
memory. And apparently (from my own experiences as well), the
greater the value you try the further into the OS memory you get and
the worse you corrupt the OS.  For example, I once sent the patch value
100 to mine and was able to recover it via a patch Sysex dump; but a
greater value rendered the OS unusable.  Your previous experiences
described above seem to be similar.

So....I believe your OS will need to be re-installed; but you should
contact Elektron to be sure.

Good luck!
Joe