Elektron Musical Instruments

Hello!

What exactly is the use of a wizard?
Why not simply update with a midi-file?

Splank!

--- In elektron-users@onelist.com, "splank!" <splank@r...> wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> What exactly is the use of a wizard?
> Why not simply update with a midi-file?
> 
> Splank!

Hi!

The wizard is simply there to ensure that everybody updates their
machine in a similar way. We decided not to use MIDI files since no
two sequencers replays them exactly the same (Logic and Cubase are
a good example of this). Sysex files are better but there are few 
really good programs that handles this kind of data well.

Since the Os 1.0 has a simple routine for the flash upgrade it is
quite possible to kill the upgrade code in it. It's imperative
that the upgrade data is fed in a orderly fashion. Otherwise the
upgrade routine will be confused.

The flash would then be empty and further upgrade attempts to Os 1.1
would be futile. You would have to re-program the rom with an eprom
programmer to fix this. 

I hope using a wizard doesn't cause too much problems. My appologies
also goes out to Mac OS users. We are working on a wizard for them as
well.

Best regards,

Mikael, Elektron