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Re: [xpantastic] Xpander CPU Board

2012-09-24 by Christophe JANOT

It's seems to be a good news for me :-)

Envoyé de mon iPhone

Le 24 sept. 2012 à 22:05, Omar <holografique@...> a écrit :

> I'm almost certain the BAD RAM message is not something to be worried about. My Xpander gives the same error message, haven't noticed a single issue. The previous owner before me said the same thing.
> 
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> On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Do It Yourself Synth <cjanot@...> wrote:
>>  
>> Thank you very much for your help. So I know the version number trick is normal. I have to work on the RAM problem.
>> 
>> My first goal is first to do a 'basic' Xpander. I'll will try updating the firmware later.. ;-)
>> 
>> PS : you are french (free.fr) like me. I'm living in Issy les Moulineaux (near Paris).
>> 
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>> Le 24 sept. 2012 à 20:15, baumont987 a écrit :
>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> That's really a good news.
>>> Here the results with my Xpander:
>>> 
>>> * With the voice board PLUGGED, I have:
>>> MAIN PROCESSOR: 1.2
>>> VOICE VERSION: 1.6 (this is a special case, I think I have a Matrix-12 voice board into my Xpander)
>>> CASETTE: 1.0
>>> 
>>> * With the voice board UNPLUGGED, I have:
>>> All LED are light up
>>> Display showing : "VOICE PROCESSOR MALFUNCTION"
>>> MEM test: all OK (RAM and ROM)
>>> VMEM: shows "TESTING" and hang the synth. When switched off/on, the synth is still blocked, I needed to do an hardware reset (turn on while keeping the finger on  "CLEAR").
>>> 
>>> MAIN PROCESSOR: 1.2
>>> VOICE VERSION: 2.0
>>> CASETTE: 4.4
>>> 
>>> BTW, I'm the author of the Xplorer editor (http://xplorer-editor.com ). If you plan to add some functionalities through MIDI, I'll be glad to include them into Xplorer. please let me know.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> --- In xpantastic@yahoogroups.com, Do It Yourself Synth <cjanot@...> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Hello,
>>> > 
>>> > I'm currently testing my Xpander CPU board replica. All is working fine but... 
>>> > - when I'm testing the MEM, it reports RAM0-2 as BAD (it should be OK).
>>> > - When I'm testing ROM version, it reports 4.4 for the tape firmware (it should be 1.0).
>>> > So, since I do not already have a Voice board, I want to know if someone can test his Xpander with the voice board unplugged.
>>> > 
>>> > Thank you.
>>> >
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