I picked up a busted S-10 for pretty cheap, and I'm trying to recondition it.
I was able to replace a couple of caps and get most functions working.
I can sample and play back, I can use it as a MIDI controller, data
sent to MIDI IN shows up on MIDI THRU... The QD has a melted belt but
I have replacements on the way. Until I get that working I can't get
through the diags far enough to be 100% certain that MIDI IN works all
the way to the CPU....
I was going to see if I could get some of the SysEx samples from the
old archive (thanks folks!) to download via MIDI, but I'm not having a
lot of luck. To start with, the manual doesn't mention hitting ENTER
after selecting one of the 4 SysEx modes. So I found that entirely by
accident. But I'm still having no luck, and I'm hoping maybe someone
here has experience to know what else may be omitted (or overlooked)
in the manual.
Here's my setup: macbook pro, generic USB-MIDI interface, running a
tool called SysEx Librarian. It reads the archives just fine, lets me
view them and the data conforms to the spec. To dump, you select
which MIDI port, and hit "play" and it sends the messages downstream
(blindly).
On the S-10 to prep I select bank, MIDI, confirm that I'm actually on
channel 1 (where the dumps come from) and that Exclusive = On. Then I
hit F1+MIDI, FWD twice to get to "one way sample data receive" (since
I can't do handshaking), and hit ENTER. At this point it says "Wait
for sample data" or some such.
I then hit play on the librarian...but the S-10 screen stays at
Waiting. I've tried hitting ENTER again after sending the data (does
nothing), hitting the bank key again (cancels)....played with a few
other keys but nothing seems to be doing it. I can't help but think
I'm missing something else, and/or that it should say something
when/if it actually starts receiving data. I'm pretty positive I'm
using the right port on my USB MIDI interface, but I tried sending to
the other one just in case, and got the same result.
I'm also a little concerned that the spec mentions a 20ms wait between
frames of SysEx data, and I don't know (not sure how I could tell) if
my librarian is honoring that.
Has anyone done this recently enough to remember if/what magic
incantation is still necessary?
Anyone had any luck running the windows tools in a virtual machine?
That's really my next line of testing. That, and getting the QD drive
working so I can get it past that part of the diags and into the part
where it tests MIDI.
Thanks....