help with keyhboard backup

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I have an Ensoniq ks-32 board that I love, but it's so primitive, it has no way to back up sounds and sequences. They used to offer these ram cards, but they're nearly extinct and don't hold crap for data. All I want to do is find a way to back up the ram, but nobody has a clue as to what I can do. Like I said, this keyboard is very primitive
(1991) and needs to be re-initialized quite often, due to glitches, etc. Unfortunately everytime it does, I lose everything. Does anyone have a clue as how I can bulk dump this thing? The only ports that the Ensoniq has is Midi......no serial, no usb.
Thanks
 
PM diggy_dude and ask him he is the primitive keyboard expert here.
 
You should be able to play the sequences into a DAW or software sequencer through a USB MIDI box and save the files in your DAW.

Dumping the samples or patches would be more of a challenge. If you can dump and load them via SysEx messages, there ought to be a program out there that can save them to file.
 
There is a company that made some software to back up ASR-10 files via midi - not sure if it will work on that model. Instead of trying to dump the internal memory I would do as Diggy suggest and save the sequences into your DAW via midi - I will assume you already have a USB-to-MIDI cable (cheap on ebay) - then if its the actual sounds you want I would sample them into a VST sampler and play them in your DAW (Do it before it dies and you have lost the Sounds for ever)

These guys might be able to help: Chicken Systems Inc: Products: Software: Ensoniq Disk Tools

I download some of their free stuff but I ended up getting a SCSI ASR-10 so don't need it :p
 
c7sus said:
MIDI-OX will save Sys.Ex files.
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Yep. It can also save MIDI sequences to a human-readable text file format. You can use the command line programs t2mfXP.exe and mf2tXP.exe to convert those files to SMF and back.
 
It basically means that the MIDI-OX log can be converted to a standard MIDI file. :)
 
hi,

I'm afraid I can't solve your problem, but regarding the Ks-32 I've an urgent question/problem, and it seems to be quite simple but can't solve it. Some days ago I found my KS-32 transposed all the keys a half tone down (so, playing a C it sounds as a B and playing an G it sounds as F# and so forth). Somebody must have changed the settings while playing it, and I can't find out how to get it back to it's original tone, in other words the keys correspond with the right notes. In case you don't know the answer, do you know how I reset the KS-32 to it's default settings? I can't find a proper user manual nor the right info on the web.
If any users of the KS-32 could help me out with this, it would be great, it must be pretty straightforward to solve

thanks,
Frederick
 
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