So how did you send the patches back to the instrument using midi
ox I'm trying this myself and can't figure it out. I got it to
receive though...

--- In oberheim@yahoogroups.com , grw20022 <grw20022@...> wrote:
>
> 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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