<< Anyone know what I might be doing wrong? I set the size to 256
before I transfer and it always truncates and aborts the dump after
about 400 packets >>
I remember doing this (with two midi cables) between my 2000 and my 2002.
eventually I realised that the sonic benefit wasn't worth it and I should
just fix the other floppy drive....
I do remember, however, that you had to set the size on the front of the
receiving machine and press execute. this seemed odd at the time; the
different-typeface section in my manual says that the header contains the
sample number and size, so... why...? then later on, it says that the
receiving 2000/2 ignores the sample number in the header "and dumps to the
current sound(/map/preset- these could be copied in the same way) to
facilitate cross-loading between machines..." like floppies hadn't been
invented, almost.... they were keen to get this methodology ratified, weren't
they? midi was a strange new thing then...
it goes on to say that "it is advised that a sound parameter dump follow a
sample dump, since the sample dump cannot handle such details as release
loop-points etc." i.e. only the sustain loop points find their way across.
this again assumes that you are, for some mad reason, attempting to transfer
stuff between two machines using only electricity and ignoring sony's
fabulous life-changing 3.5" miracle.
the normal-typeface bit of the manual is very brief and vague in this area,
suggesting only that you use two midi cables and that "all sample dumps are
recorded to the slave's current sound number, sample rate and allocated
sample size" though it goes on to add that "it is also possible to
intentionally dump to a different rate." contradictions....
make sure that your new dump will actually fit in the 256 blocks (do these
correspond to kilobytes? I can't remember) and you haven't changed the baud
rate in "midi-options". (dave & the boys getting adventurous- I think there
might even have been a firmware rev that could run at 3 times normal midi
baud rates- btw, what rev is your machine?)
the manual concentrates on the dumper rather than the dumpee, and so isn't
much help when the dumper isn't SCI itself. I remember doing everything as
though I was about to record a new sample, and selecting the target sound in
the second row "sound number" box aswell. I did make it work, but it was
worse than watching paint dry.
duncan/r.m.i.
