> From: spistrich
>
> now im having problems loading the patches taken off the
> rhodeschroma site...
> I can get my old cassette to load, but it skips the 6 or so
> sounds on
> the damaged tape area offsetting the sequence of programs by those 6
> missing spots. (I had recorded this out of my polaris for
> backup when i
> worked on its voices -that went fine). The problem is now after I
> downloaded the 'new' factory patches from the polaris site and
> transferred them to a new cassette on my home stereo deck , but
> whenever i try to load them with my radio shak trs-80 it cuts out
> with a honk after 1-5 patches have been loaded... Ive checked
> the "verify' and it doesnt seem to acknowlege the new cassette tape
> signal from the download, in contrast , it does blink to
> verify my old
> cassette. The signal levels on the 2 tapes

seem similar. it is

> getting frustrating. ..any ideas as to why the polaris doesnt like the
> download cassette?

It was always a hairy-edge technology. What makes the cassette interface not
work is waveform distortion in the cassette recorder. If the machine has
Dolby or any kind of auto-leveling function, turn it off. If that's no help,
it may just be that the frequency response of that particular cassette
recorder is too un-flat, and you'll never get it to work. You could always
try a different recorder.

Since the Polaris has MIDI, it's always better to use that.

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Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco
Paul mailto:pderocco@ix. netcom.com