Ridley

OK, so...I got the new/old Tascam interface, but I wound up using the Behringer, putting a 50 millisecond delay between packets, and using channel 1 no matter what (channel 3 should have worked but didn't). She's swapping patching like a looney now. Even got MIDI-OX to work, but Midiquest is much, much better for swapping patches around. Thanks ya'll!

I won the auction for $19, so it's just waiting for the shipping! Thanks y'all!

Goodwill has a Tascam US-122 with the original box and driver CDs, all from 2003. That sounds about right, eh? The Behringer is (mostly) aces. I don't have any trouble with any of my other machines, although I have had to reinstall the driver a couple of times as switching USB ports on the PC. It's the W10 driver and it's...fine? It's very...Behringer.

I'm able to receive sysex from the VZ-1, but not send to it. The error message I receive is on the VZ-1 itself. I like the idea of a CRC check; I've never done that over MIDI, but I'm familiar enough with the method. And, I have lots of old computers. I suspect strongly the computer/interface are sending data too fast for the VZ to recognize. I'll give it a shot in the morning, and thank you!

Thank y'all (I'm a newbie, so I'm limited to one post a day). I do have MIDI-OX set to send on all channels. The VZ is set to channel 3 and it doesn't have an omni mode for some reason. My sense is it's probably a baud or a handshake issue as I get the error message immediately, even when I drop to small packet sizes with a short delay between them. I'll mess with the rates and see if I can figure anything out. This is really weird.

Thanks Joe! I'm using a Behringer UMC404HD for the interface and I'm running Windows 10. I'm not having any trouble sending and receiving to my DW8000 or SQ80, but the VZ-1 is only receiving successfully.

Hello! I've got a beautiful old VZ-1 in my stack and I'm having an awful time getting it to load sysex files. I'm not having any trouble with receiving them, but every time I try to transmit, I receive the message "Load error check system!" I have MIDI turned on with the switch on the back panel. I have write protect disabled. I've confirmed that the ports that I'm sending and receiving on match. I've set menu 3 page 2 to "Load", "MIDI", and I've tried all three setting (voice, opmem, and v+op). I'm using 128 buffers of 44,000 bytes in size. I've tried sending using MidiQuest and Midi-Ox and get the same result. Anyone have any experience with this and know what I might be doing wrong? Thank you! Ridley