Drum SOunds Gone on Tr-Rack - can i get them back

[Hughnotjackman]

Hi - I am from Australia and bought a TR-Rack that I had to reset to factory sounds and the Drum Samples are missing. Can anyone point in the right direction to get them back. Lovin' the sounds in it.
Thanks
Hugh

[Rickashake]

TR-Rack is actually a module version of the Korg Trinity, not the Korg TR itself. The TR (the upgraded LE) has no module version.

This is the TR-rack


And this is the korg TR


You should be able to get the factory programs/combis by loading the default factory data from the global part. Usually all korg keyboards have that option there

[Hughnotjackman]

Hi Thanks for the reply - Yeah I got all the sounds back except when I scroll through the prog and combis - drums aren't there anymore. I thought I might have to load them on manually or something.
Is it possible that when I bought it second hand it had more sounds on it than after I reset to factory standard.
I reset it because it was making some weird distorted sounds after it arrived?
It is a TR-Rack like the one you have pictured (not the keyboard shot)

[Rickashake]

If I remember correctly - you should have 512 programs and 512 combinations. That's 4 banks (A/B/C/D)

Trinity (the keyboard version) has only 3 unless you insert that expansion ROM chip

[billbaker]

The drum sounds are ROM based and should not be "lose-able" under normal circumstances. The TR's not a sampling module, so there should have been no "extra" drum sounds to lose.

Did you do a routine to reset (hold a front panel button and power up) or use a .pcg file?

Are the drum programs themselves missing? (i.e., no program that says "Power Kit") or is it a matter that the programs are there but the referenced drum kits are gone?

I could see this problem rising from initializing everything including the drum kits stored under global data - all of the stock kits are volatile and could be initialized too - and then loading back only program/combi data and omitting the needed kits. That would be a matter of making sure that global data was included in your reset or re-load process.

More troubling is the "weird distorted" sounds the prompted this reset in the first place - that and the lack of drum sounds might be an indicator of a bad chip or failing battery - if the drums are gone because a ROM chip is damaged or failing, that would be a "bad thing".


BB

[X-Trade]

Moved to the appropriate section.