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Oberheim had a site that you can download all of their cassettes that they made. I think at that time there was 4 cassettes. I picked out all the ones I wanted to put in the OB from my computer and I also had a OB cassette that I used some of their sounds from that and loaded all the patches with the sounds that I liked from all 4 cassettes. I used a connecting cable with conductor shielded with 1/4 plug on one end and 1/8 plug at the other. I used the 1/8 side from my computer when I used that and 1/8 from my cassette players earphone or headphone output so you can ajust the playback volume control of the cassette player so the the OB is able to recognize the information coming in from the tape. the other side of the cable 1/4 goes into the from hookup in the back of the synth..back up all your patches to a cassette using the, to- from the back of the synth, use the parameters, send patch or send all... good luck...Gerry

hugglett <mhuggs@...> wrote:

Thank you so much Mike and Charles for responding. My Christmas gift
came when, last night at 1AM (Too many sweets during the day
yesterday), I got the first patch back into the instrument via midi.
I can't begin to explain why, but my individual patches that had been
saved previously using Sound Quest can be opened by Midi Ox as
an "other binary" file. When opened this way, the sysx patch data is
approximately 200+ bytes instead of the 60 byte patches I get when
saving using Midi Ox alone. Anyway, my OB-8 accepts the Sound Quest
200 byte patches in whatever form that Midi Ox opens and sends them
as. Wish I knew more about the format and code stuff. I have no
idea why the patches saved using Sound Quest can't be sent back to
the instrument also using Sound Quest, but that's another adventure
and lots of experimentation. For now, I'm just thrilled to have my
patches back.

As for the cassette method, I have the orginal factory cassette,
plus .wav files. I've tried all different volume levels using
headphone outs of cassette player and laptop, plus variety of mini
pin cables from cheap ones to very expensive. The one and only time
I got any indication of the instrument recognizing the incoming data
was when the transmission failed and wiped out my patches.

Sincerely,

Mike Huggs

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