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SECTION 7
APPENDIX
TROUBLESHOOTING
The wonderful world of MIDI makes our musical lives much so
much easier most of the time. Still, there are those moments when
things just won't work. Below are some hints regarding sending
and receiving problems and possible solutions. This is just general
info since there is no way of knowing each and every instrument,
connections, and system setup.
PROBLEM
:
DATADISK
won't save data to disk
.
POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS:
1)
Make sure that the MIDI In of
DATADISK
is connected to
MIDI Out of the sending instrument (seems so simple,
but it happens).
2)
Does your synth or MIDI device require handshaking
(see Section 3)?
Check the manual to be sure.
3)
Make sure that System Exclusive is enabled.
PROBLEM
: The receiving instrument does not appear to receive data
sent to it from
DATADISK
.
POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS:
1)
Make sure that the MIDI Out of
DATADISK
is connected to
the MIDI In of the receiving instrument.
2)
Make sure that System Exclusive is enabled on the re-
ceiving instrument.
3)
Memory Protect on the synthesizer must be off.
4)
Some instruments do not show any indication that it is
receiving or that it has received a data dump (i.e. Ober-
heim Matrix-6, Roland R-8). In this case, select the pro-
grams to see/hear that the data was received.
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