hello,
i had a long day trying to get the MIOS uploaded to midibox SID.
PIC was pre-burned in joergs midishop and i got the upload request ok when powering up the sid.
i was using Steinberg Midex 3 and Midi-OX under Windows 2000. but i didn’t get the MIOS running since the SID kept sending the request every 2 seconds, so i was thinking there must be somenthing wrong in the connections. so i made all the troubleshooting for midi in connections and octocoupler with no luck. then i found out that there was something wrong with midex/midi-ox - no midi activity led flashing in midex and midi-ox was chrashing. i made the midi-ox’s send/receive test which failed, i still don’t know what was wrong.
but luckily i also had a MAC nearby so i finally tried to make the upload with that. no problems. midex worked fine and MIOS seemed to go ok to PIC since it stopped sending the request sysex.
but then i wasn’t able to get any sound out from SID. i was using Jsynthlib but didn’t get any signal from the SID… then i had to call it a day. will do more testing tomorrow… i wonder if there’s something wrong with the MIOS after all? i hope i didn’t mess it up completely.
is there a initial patch in SID? if i just can’t get Jsynthlib to work, should i get a sound out from SID with just a basic midi keyboard?
well, just wanted to write some lines of these experiments. i really wonder why midex didn’t work out with windows. i’m using midex8 and winXP a lot for basic sysex dumping for elektron’s instruments and it’s going ok…
cheers!
