K5synth

I wonder if I'm doing something wrong, but the first k3 midi file you sent
loaded no problem. Neither my K5 nor k5m are recieving these new banks
however. I tried both running the .mid file through Windows Media Player
(what I did with the last one) and through Cakewalk, and no luck. I don't
see any reason why this shouldn't load.

Joel


----- Original Message -----
From: "Les" <jabberdabber@...>
To: <k5synth@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 8:14 PM
Subject: [k5synth] Re: New Files


> --- In k5synth@yahoogroups.com, "ohsinairam" <ohsinairam@y...> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I've never loaded patches using Sysex before, so I wanted some
> info
> > before potentially erasing anything on the K5:
> >
> > - To load, you have to open the .mid file in the sequencer, run
> it,
> > and that's it?
>
> Yup. You need to make sure the K5 is set up to receive system
> exclusive messages. This can be done via the MIDI menu.
>
> > - To which bank in the K5 does it load the patch? SIA-1 by
> default?
>
> No, unfortunately. The patch number is part of the sysex data
> itself. So if I sent patch SIA-11, for example, to my sequencer as a
> system exclusive message and later sent the message back to the K5,
> it would save it to SIA-11.
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> If you know how to edit the system exclusive data, some sequencers
> let you do this, and you know which byte to change, you can change
> the patch number at the sequencer before sending the message to the
> K5.
>
> One thing I should point out, the MIDI files I've uploaded with
> multiple patches, such as the K3 and DW8000 waveform files, have
> multiple single patches saved as system exclusive data. I spread
> these messages out about a measure or so from one another. If you
> set up your K5 to receive sysex data and play one of these MIDI
> files to the end, it will overwrite many of the existing patches you
> have in memory. So make sure you have any patches you want to keep
> backed up before playing one of these files with your sequencer.
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