Slow booting process of PA1XPRO

[AngeloSingerComposer]

My keyboard stays in the loading mode for more than 7 minutes and is ready to play in about 8 to 10 minutes.I reloaded the OS 3.01 using Intro1 and still the same problem.I hear the hard drive working. I'm suspecting the hard drive is slowly dieing. Can this problem be caused by the SSD memory or does it seem to be a hard drive issue? Thanks all for reading and responding!

[Reuben]

Mine takes about 3 minutes and this includes loading 15mb PCM into Ram.
Are you loading lots of samples into Ram?
If you don't need PCM samples then you should untick PCM Auto load then your boot up time should be much quicker.
Remember that this keyboard works fine without a hard drive so it may not be the hard drive that is the cause of your slow loading time.

[keyboardmadness]

Hi John, If I would load your sounds at boot-up is there any particular procedure to follow, or simply tick the PCM AUTOLOAD ?? (please consider that I have other PCM sounds in my hard disk...)

Thanks

[AngeloSingerComposer]

Hello Reuben.I had suspected the hard drive but wasn't sure how the Korg worked, so I opened it up.Thanks for replying by the way!
I disconnected the hard drive and the boot up time was then 40 to 45 seconds.So I concluded that the OS was part of the RAM or SSD, nevertheless they were both working fine and my hard drive was causing the slowing down of the loading system.Being an electronic technician I was able to solve this, I went and purchased a hard drive.Now with the new hard drive installed (80 GB instead of the original 20GB) and formatted it.Now it takes about 45 seconds.Problem solved, hope this message helps anyone out there, and problem can be solved easily even for a non-technician.
Now I'm thinking about adding the mp3 card and also a CDRW burner.

[Reuben]

Just a couple of suggestions:
First to Keyboardmadness - Yes I would have PCM Autoload ticked.
Angelo - good work! glad your problem is solved. I have heard some bad reports about the CD Writer (causing clicks and delays so I would not recommend) The best thing I did was to replace the floppy with a USB floppy emulator.

[wittid]

Hi Reuben,
is it possible to do a complete backup ober the USB-Floppy adapter?
tx
Detlef

[AngeloSingerComposer]

Thanks Reuben, I'm not familiar with the USB floppy emulator, i will do some research on that.Also have you installed the MP3 card in your Korg and do you recommend it? Do you have to purchase that board through a Korg dealer or is there another work-around like in the case of the hard drive?.
Thanks and take care!

[Reuben]

Hi Detlef,
It is possible to format a USB Pendrive to hold the equivalent of 100 floppies but remember that each segment still only holds 1.44mb.
I have backed up the OS plus musical resources on a single pendrive (I think it was about the equivalent of 16 floppies). There is a button to switch floppy numbers 0 - 99.
But it still behaves like a floppy drive so access/write speed is about the same as a floppy. Its perfect for transferring midi files from/to computer via USB pendrive and you could also save Sets/Styles to it so you could do a Save All but if you had lots of PCM data this would be quite slow. Personally I use a USB cable to do full BackUps (Save All then transfer to computer - I also back up the entire HD occasionally because Save All does not save your midi files)
For day to day use I use cheap USB pendrives and format them with the Pa1x (Disk, Format, FD) make sure you choose FD otherwise you might mistakenly format your HD. This only allows 1.44mb each but with current prices at only a few dollars for a pendrive there is no real need to use the special formatting tool to give you 100.
For a full description and photo see:http://www.korgforums.com/forum/phpBB2/ ... hp?t=59378
Angelo - just saw your posting. I don't have the mp3 board. It would have to be from Korg to work. It might be of some use. I think the best part of having it would be the fact that its integrated with the Songbook - so choosing a midi/style/mp3 is all easily accessible. My workaround is plugging my ipod into inputs 1&2 for playback/singalong/practice or in the case of recording just running some cords to my computer and recording using the freeware program Audacity. This gives great quality stereo sound and you can add futher tracks/effects etc and export it as mp3. I have recently worked out how to direct record video plus sound input to my ipodTouch using a special cord. Quality is good but only mono.