Updating Firmware - Stereoping Synth Programmer Operation Manual

Updating Firmware_____________________________________________________________________________________17

10. Updating Firmware
The day may come you want to update your edition or try out another. Your Synth Programmer offers a
firmware update mode for this. After entering this mode you just send a firmware-file into the controllers Midi IN
2 jack. The firmwares in SysEx-format are all compatible with your Programmer and freely available on our
website. You can dump them with any standard SysEx dump tool of which several are available as freeware for
different operating systems. An exmaple for PC is 'MidiOX', for the Mac you could use 'SysEx Librarian'.
The technical part:
Switch off the Stereoping Programmer
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Connect MIDI OUT of your Midi-Interface directly to the jack MIDI 2 IN of the Programmers using a short
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cable of good quality
There are some preferences in most SysEx-Dump Programs like 'Delay between Buffers' or 'Delay after
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F7'. Please choose something around 100mS (Milliseconds) here.
Hold LOWER and power up your Programmer. The Display should read 'BOOTLOADER'
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Load the new Firmware into your SysEx-Dump Program and send it out
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In rare cases there is a data-chunk stuck somewhere and you will see the message „Wrong file" right at
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the beginning. Stop the firmware transmission, simply press LOWER again and restart the firmware
transmissing. It should work now.
The display shows OS-Version and progresst. After about 2 minutes the Programmer restarts
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If you will get an error on the screen please try another cable or increase the delay mentioned above.
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The firmware update erases all PREFS settings.
All 6 Chord Memory slots will be reset to factory settings
Synth Programmer for MKS-80 – Operation manual V 1.16 – 03/2019
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