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(Message started by: wally on Oct 1^st, 2008, 11:11pm)

Title: HELP!! Korg Wavestation EX - Newbie
Post by wally on Oct 1^st, 2008, 11:11pm

Help. I have Korg Wavestation EX keyboard. Internal battery went dead (I replaced it), but I lost the 2 RAM banks of info. Korg emailed me the files. Here's the instructions Korgs sent me with the files:

[Korg instructions: *** Protocol for SySex Files ***

The files you have downloaded are System Exclusive information. These files have been saved in a Standard MIDI file format. This will enable you to transfer the information via any software sequencer or outboard synthesizer that can read SySex in a Standard
MIDI file. Please contact respective companies for information regarding whether your software/hardware has this capability.

Transferring these files is as easy as playing the SMF. However, settings do have to be made in the respective Korg products to allow the information to get received correctly:

Under GLOBAL - Make sure that the Memory Protect Internal is OFF
Under MIDI - Make sure that Mode is OMNI
- Make sure that the Basic Channel is 1
- Make sure that Parameters is set to RECOGNIZE

Once this is accomplised, simply connect a MIDI cable from the OUT of the sending sequencer to the in of the KORG unit and playthe file. On the WS series, you will be promted that info is being received. On the M series, you will not notice a change until you select a progam/combi other than the one on screen, then switch back (The screen doesn't update until you select a new
sound).

Enjoy! [End of Korg instructions]

I have a new Dell PC (with Windows Vista). I attached a USB/MIDI cable (brand name Midisport Uno). I followed instructions and "played" the Korg files, but nothing seemed to transfer to the Wavestation EX. (I even tried to open the files using Midi-ox software, but could not locate the files using Midi-Ox. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks, Wally.

Title: Re: HELP!! Korg Wavestation EX - Newbie
Post by Peter L Jones on Oct 2^nd, 2008, 2:00pm

MIDI OX itself doesn't handle SMF (.MID) files. It can handle SysEx messages, saved in .syx files.

I still don't understand why manufacturers don't provide SysEx utilities with the timing set to suit their hardware. A modern PC will stream a SysEx message down a MIDI cable at full MIDI data rate. Many MIDI devices -- even, it seems, "modern" ones -- can't take it.

You may need to "play" the MIDI file into MIDI OX (using MIDI Yoke to connect the two). Then use MIDI OX to send the file, as it can be told to slow down.