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pa3x loading time with 250mb set.

Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 7:11 pm
by garabed02
Hi to all.

I am a new owner of pa3x and I love it a lot.
I have a little question for asking about pa3x startup time.

My set is always on my pa3x and Every time I start my pa3x, it takes 4 mins! I dont use other sets, like my pa2x. The battery Is fully charged. I never turn off the pa3x. I'm always turning it in standby.
I have the 61 keys version and my set makes 250mb

Do you know why it takes so long to power on the machine? I read that it dont have to take more than 2 min :(

Bes regards

Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 9:10 pm
by Lika
Garo jan - is you samples compressed ???

Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 5:00 am
by garabed02
Hi Lika,

thank you for your reply.

what do you mean by compressed? I dont know how to do it.

Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 10:30 am
by Lika
hi.
that mean - have you installed 256mb EXB to your PA3xX ??? or your sampler is 128mb ...

Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 12:23 pm
by Vex
garabed02 wrote:Hi Lika,

thank you for your reply.

what do you mean by compressed? I dont know how to do it.
Sampling >Dropdown MENU > Compress all samples...and you will have 125 mb of comressed samples = lighter SET ;)

Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 5:17 pm
by garabed02
Hi Vex

Thanks for the tip

I found the menu :) but I want to know, when I want to delete a multisample or add a new one, do I have to compress the samples again? or it will be automaticaly compressed?

Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 5:20 pm
by Vex
Yes,you have to repeat compression procedure when importing new samples,but only the new ones will bee compressed ;)

Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 5:27 pm
by garabed02
Oh, i understand now :) thanks for your help Vex and Lika! I appreciate. So the loading time will be again for 4 minute if I load 512 mb of samples right?

By the way, do you have pa3x? If yes, what version? 76 or 61 keys? Because I find that the screen is not so sensible than 76 keys version. Sometime, I have to push 2 or 3 time until I could enter on a menu, or select a sound.

Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 5:33 pm
by garabed02
Sorry I didnt saw your signature :)

Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2011 7:06 pm
by Vex
Load latest software for pa3x (1.11 ) if you didn't already ,and calibrate screen carefully. My touch screen works OK :)

Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 4:51 pm
by garabed02
I am back.

I try to compress all samples like you said (it takes all the nights, even more !) and It did'nt worked correctly :(. It writes to me at the end :

error : cannot create form with id 859

error : cannot create form with id 1203

and my pa3x froze.

Do you know where I am going wrong? I have more than 7000 samples, is this ok or not?

When I restart my pa3x all the samples have not been compressed.

Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 5:19 pm
by Vex
Yes,it should compress very long time (for the first time) ,mine set also was compressing all the night ,but with no errors...

Something is wrong,but I think you should contact Korg service support... That errors may have influence with slow pa3x boot time ???

Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 5:24 pm
by garabed02
I will try to do a system reset and do it again but personally, I dont think it will correct the problem.

The loading time is OK when there is no samples,

I have exb 256 mb that I took with me when I sold my pa2x but on my pa2x it worked very fine, never have a problem with it.

Vex, when you compress your samples, you imported your old set or you just created a new one on pa3x? My set com from pa2x (loaded without global for shure).

Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 7:12 pm
by Vex
Yes,I imported my set from pa2x...exactly like you,but I do not have exb256... You should try maybe to re-insert exb256?

Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 7:19 pm
by garabed02
My exb 256 is already insered in pa2x, since I bought it.

I am reimporting one by one the sounds and styles and samples and compressing works. But I think I will have to do this until tomorrow lol, i have soooooo many things...