Korg Poly800/EX800 Users

Thanks for the help but i have no luck.




--- In korgpolyex@y..., "dburga01" <darrell@p...> wrote:
> > Batt is new and still wont save any sounds.
> > > >I have this one for a while now but has no sound everything 
> works like
> > > >i can used it as a midi controller and evrytime i upload a *sys
> > > >sometimes work sometimes dont i know a eletonics stuff but no 
> idea
> > > >about synt stuff any help would help and the sound it make is 
> wooshing
> > > >oscillation lots. thank your very much for the help
> > > 
> > > sounds like you just lost the memory...happens a lot
> 
> I had a similar problem when I first bought my EX800.  Now, the 
> battery in mine is long gone, so maybe it's not the same situation 
> (does ANYONE know where I can buy a battery for this thing?!?!), but 
> I discovered that many of the syx banks for the EX800 on the net are 
> not readable by my EX800.  Perhaps they are for the Poly800II or 
> something, I dunno.  But in any event, I get the same exact 
> symptoms.  I'll send the syx bank to the EX800, then when I try to 
> play anything I just get fairly faint swirly white noise.  What's 
> worse, is thereafter even if I send a *good* syx bank to the EX800, 
> it won't read it.  I guess the OS gets befuddled or something.  I 
> have to turn the EX800 off and then on again to get it to take.
> 
> I put a file in this group under the "palancar" folder which does 
> work - try resetting your EX800 then sending this file to it and see 
> if that helps.
> 
> Oh, one other thing:  be sure to set the value of parameter 86 
> to "1", or you can send syx to it all day and it'll never take....  :-
> )
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Darrell
> http://www.ampcast.com/palancar
> darrell@p...