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Re: [vintagesynthrepair] Korg Poly 800 problem

2001-10-28 by Brian Andrew Marek

Bob Smith wrote:

> 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?

I'm assuming you're referring to the "enable/disable" switch by the tape
ports?  If there's any other form of memory protection, I'm not aware of it.
In any case, there's no way to get into the tape load mode without turning
that switch to enable, so that's not the problem...

BaM

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