Hello everyone,
I just recently purchased a defective old PC-1600. Turns out I got a great deal as the auction price was low, and when I received it two days later, I find it to be in excellent physical condition. The exceptions being that it wasn't operable, and when I opened it up, I found substantial battery corrosion which had been eating away at the traces on the board and some of the components. I did end up repairing some of the smaller traces which had corroded closest to the holes. Just some simple jumpers with solder. Still not working after I assemble it. Go back and start replacing components with the most corrosion on their leads. Still not working. Finally after two more tries and replacing a diode and 7 resistors, I got it working. I've already purchased the 2.3 EPROM and non-volatile SRAM as upgrades, just waiting on them. I plan on using my PC-1600(X) with two Matrix-1000's, D-550, DX21, Rebirth, SoundDiver and possibly everything else I have.
My big question is how do I load these patches into my PC-1600X? Do I need a Windows machine with a sequencing program to load them in? I'm running ProTools on a G4, but I do have an old PC laptop to use if need be.
Thanks,
Ciesz
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Thank you for the info. Still waiting on the upgrades as I'm hoping they will make life a little easier. So I can convert the .mid files to .syx files with SysEx? Some of the other patches are .exe files I'm assuming, which will not work for me. I'll let you know how I make out when the upgrades are installed.
Chris
Version 2.30 ???
Thanks, gwblaine [at] gmail [.] com
Need to click on the Picture.
Look in PC1600x Forum here for an Awesome PC Editor, a full PDF Manual and username and Reg. code.
I have had these for years and it is time to share them, yeah the name is mine so please
keep it around with the hyphens in it so people don't google my name to it.
thanks, all i ask
I have tried both syslibrarian on a mac- jsynthlib on a PC and can not get it to do anything.
the OS is at 2.2 and the unit seems to work fine. I have used it with Reason and a little with the built in JX1080 preset but can not get it to accept a new preset.
Please clue me in. . . .
M
Also sometime you can try alternate suffixes for the file; if it's .mid try changing it to .syx, or vice versa.
I tried your suggestions.
I am trying to use the pc1600x files for the jx-10se mod by
Colin Fraser.
http://colinfraser.com/jx10/JX10se-PC1600.zip
I have been unable to get them to load on the 1600x.
I am guessing I am missing something basic.
When I try to upload using PVC or Jsynthlib I have the midi in channels matching in both the software and on the 1600x.
I know the PC is sending midi at least as it will drive synths.
I see that using a preset on the 1600x will cause midi monitor to register
data.
I tried downloading some presets from Peavey to see if I could get them to load but that also did not work.
Is there something special I need to do to get the 1600x in the right mood?