OBERHEIM SYNTH

Thank you so much Mike and Charles for responding.  My Christmas gift 
came when, last night at 1AM (Too many sweets during the day 
yesterday), I got the first patch back into the instrument via midi.  
I can't begin to explain why, but my individual patches that had been 
saved previously using Sound Quest can be opened by Midi Ox as 
an "other binary" file.  When opened this way, the sysx patch data is 
approximately 200+ bytes instead of the 60 byte patches I get when 
saving using Midi Ox alone.  Anyway, my OB-8 accepts the Sound Quest 
200 byte patches in whatever form that Midi Ox opens and sends them 
as.  Wish I knew more about the format and code stuff.  I have no 
idea why the patches saved using Sound Quest can't be sent back to 
the instrument also using Sound Quest, but that's another adventure 
and lots of experimentation.  For now, I'm just thrilled to have my 
patches back.

As for the cassette method, I have the orginal factory cassette, 
plus .wav files.  I've tried all different volume levels using 
headphone outs of cassette player and laptop, plus variety of mini 
pin cables from cheap ones to very expensive.  The one and only time 
I got any indication of the instrument recognizing the incoming data 
was when the transmission failed and wiped out my patches. 

Sincerely,

Mike Huggs