Sorry about the delay in getting back to this...
Tried uninstall/reinstall on MIDI Control center as well as the Microfreak USB driver, same problem. And the MIDI passes though just fine, as well. It's not the cable, and I only have the one computer to try this on
. As per Realtrance's suggestion, looked on Korg's website for a utility to clean out old drivers, but only found a Mac version (I missed it at first- see update below), then attempted using a port in the back of the tower, one which I never use. Same results. If a utility like that exists, I would love a link (it does, sort of - see update below, then Google Korg USB-MIDI Driver if you need it. It didn't help me, though). OMG, Edouard, that would be a sweet, sweet addition to the next update on MIDI control center, right? A MIDI Driver Zapper Utility? Let's do this! You bring the ray guns and I'll bring the popcorn and 3-D glasses!!! That seems like a good guess, though, Realtrance. For all I know, that might still end up having something to do with it, although I have no idea why I would still be getting MIDI pass-through on USB... I don't know. And it gets weirder. Like, much weirder. OK, I know you guys gotta love a good creepypasta, so you ready for a ghost story? All right, here we go.
So the weird thing is, I can back up my presets to my computer just fine, no problems, but I can't add new ones
to the device
from the computer. Nothing happens for a moment, then I get the error message. But wait, there's more... If I look in the Microfreak itself (on the OLED) it will show the new patch name in the slot that I sent it to. But the sound itself is
always just the INIT patch. Even more disturbing: if I click and drag a preset in the left panel (the ones on the computer), they slide around like butter (perfect!). But in the right panel, if I attempt to do any click-and-drag rearranging whatsoever (say, move preset 185 to 186), the screen will freeze for a moment, then an error message will tell me that it failed to load the preset,
and then... the preset is gone! If I look in the MIDI control center, it is nowhere. Not 185, not 186. If I look at the Microfreak OLED, 185 is back to "Init," and sounds like the Init patch as well, and 186 will contain the name
but not the sound of the source preset (185)!!! That's right, it's just
gone... Like I said, weird.
The way I figure, while it certainly would be nice to get the Factory 1.1 patches put directly into the next release of the firmware, I'm still concerned for the patches I've created myself. If I do a firmware update, does it override all of the presets in all 256 slots? Or just the first 128 (or 160 in the future) being used for factory presets? I have preemptively placed all of my work starting in slot 161 from the beginning, knowing that I would want to leave room for the 1.1 patches, so if you guys can tell me more about how the patches are stored and updated, that would be helpful.
Regardless, I'd love to be able to send patches to my synth, and be able to reorder them without the fear of a dimensional vortex
. If there's anything else you guys need to know, or if you figure it out, let me know. You rock!
Onyx
*Update*
Finally figured out how to use the Korg driver software to clear my midi device registry. It's in the actual uninstaller for their USB MIDI driver software, as an optional thing you can do, which is cool, but didn't fix it. Nothing changed, system and synth still behaving exactly as described above. Still thinking...
