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Re: [kawaisynths] Kawai XD-5 Not Receiving/Recognizing Patch Data

2014-10-13 by Daniel Forró

Do you mean the instrument doesn't receive its own data which you have sent to the same SysEx librarian? And such transfers work with your other instruments?

I don't know much about this instrument but try these common sense steps:
In the instrument:
- check if some Memory Protect function is not switched on
- check if the receiving of SysEx data is not blocked or switched off
- check if the receiving MIDI channel is not different from the transmitting channel
- check if the Device number (when there's some) is properly set

In the computer:
- try different hardware (MIDI interface) with the same software
- try different software with the same hardware (SysEx data can be recorded and transmitted from sequencer as well)
- try different computer
- check the setting for transmitting SysEx data

Daniel Forro


On 13 Oct, 2014, at 5:58 AM, gamezr01@... [kawaisynths] wrote:

Really liking the XD-5, but I'm unable to load any patches to it from my computer using SysEx Librarian. I've used a cheap USB to MIDI cable that works on my other synths and also tried an emagic amt8 with the 2.5 USB driver, but nothing happens. Fortunately, I'm able to do data dumps. The strange thing is I'm able to use a keyboard, drum machine and sequencer to control it. Is this a common issue?


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