Wavestation SR, problem reloading factory sounds, any cards?

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thekid
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Wavestation SR, problem reloading factory sounds, any cards?

Post by thekid »

Hi, new on this forum I would like to know if there's any cards I could insert in my wavestation sr to get all factory sounds.
I tried many times with the midi file found on the korg website but I can't get the wavestation correct this way, I can get only correct sounds but not all the banks (one is copy) or all the banks are there but the sounds don't match...
so a external card to restore all the things like it should would be great!
Maybe it would be a PROG DATA card? but I don't know which one.
Thanks for your help! best regards.
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Post by billbaker »

My recollection is that the voices with the exception of the user bank were all ROM in the SR. Are the ROM banks corrupted? That might be a battery issue, especially given the age of the machine.

ROM is not supposed to be volatile at all - so replacing the battery might bring everything back to "factory". If that doesn't work, I'd take it to a service center and have a tech look it over - corrupted ROM data could be a hardware (bad chip) issue resulting from a power surge or physical shock.

The USER bank was a copy of one of the other banks (Bank 1?) and there may be a card to restore that SR Preload. As to the other banks (ROM), their voices were compiled from the Wavestation's Library which was released on a dozen or so PCM cards for use in the original WS/WS-EX.

So I don't think there's a single data card for the SR (it's possible there may be a series of cards provided to Korg Authorized Service Centers).

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Post by jhulk »

data cards are compatible with the original wavestation

but pcm cards are not as the sr uses 2mb pcmcia type 2 cards

the roms banks are extra in the sr as you only get 1 on the wavestation and ex and ad there are 8 on the sr the original one as the others and 7 extra with data from the rom card collection from korg giving you loads of access to loads of patches and performance

also there is an extra ram bank ram bank 3

for storing your own personal patches and performances and wave sequences

change the battery give it a hardware reset and it should be good to go

when putting the file from korg into your machine it will rewite the patches to the 3 ram banks
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