Vintage Synth Repair

Brian Andrew Marek wrote:

> Can anybody think of a reason that the Poly 800 would not store patches
> send via tape to the patch memory, even though it acknowledges a
> successful ("GOOD") load?!?  I certainly don't want to have to create 64
> new patches from scratch...!

Been a while since I've had a Poly 800 - did you remember to turn off the
memory protect before you tried loading?

Oh - and the thing with loosing patches while hooked up to MIDI - yep -
the problem is, Poly 800's don't know what to do with some 'noise'
conditions on the MIDI port - by 'noise' I mean powering up or down
your computer, or sometimes buffer over-runs - when it doesn't know what
to do, it'll wipe out memeory...

Later...

Bob