K5synth

Nevermind... set the mid channel on the K5 to 1... First I tried setting the
midi channel in the sysex banks to 0A, which worked partially - some patches
loaded... Then I changed the K5 to bank1 and set the 3rd byte back to 00,
and got a sucessful transmission.

Joel


----- Original Message -----
From: "jbrave" <onephatcat@...>
To: <k5synth@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 12:43 AM
Subject: [k5synth] - k3 files not loading


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