barxxo

It's worthwhile to keep a dual boot system, at least one in your arsenal.  Basically anytime you have to do any sort of firmware update these days, it's ALWAYS a Windows Loader and Virtualized Machines and emulators just don't cut it for the crazy kinds of port access that they require.

 

Whenever I buy a new box to install Linux on I'll always take the opportunity to pick up an OEM copy of Winderz just for these and other occasions when it simply refuses to run on Linux and there is no alternative.

 

What flavor of Linux are ya running and what DAW software are ya using?  I always enjoy sharing notes with a fellow Linux musician.

 

We are a rare and unique breed

 

Gary

Absolutely agree,  do not do anything other than Mikes intructions on firmware upgrade. I have the unpleasant distinction of being the first here at least to brick my XW by leaving my virus scanner active which interrupted the process while I was doing it as it scanned the upgrade file. That alone sabatoged the entire process, and I had already upgraded from the earliest to the next step up. I am an avid fan of Linux, known to many of us as Android (same basic OS fyi except Google hijacked a version of it, repackaged it as Google Android. Currently using Puppy Slacko latest 5.7 running Wine also. It is so fast compared to Windows that most days I go online with its version of Firefox. I run it with a "frugal" install on the hard drive, even with many  updated programs it uses so little memory. And many music programs, a much betterpartition manager and every software program I need.

Dear fellow linux users,

at first i want to apologize for my relatively limited english, i'm from germany. 

At the moment i run linux only. I've no easy access to a win8 - key. Would've to buy one, too expensive for me. 

Im a very satisfied user of Manjaro Linux, a user friendly Arch Linux fork. 

It's easier to install than Windows 7 and runs for a year now without major problems. 

I don't like to use computers to make music, i need hardware, knobs and sliders :-) (although i was experimenting with "Pure Data" and still want to in future)

One week ago i bought my Casio XW G1. It's a fascinating machine but imho not easy to master, if you dig deeper. 

I own another synth, a MicroKorg, then there is a Kaossilator, first generation. I'm selling my sampler and a keyboard on ebay, because the Casio will replace them both hopefully :-)

Jokeman: i feel sorry for you. How dit you solve this? Could your Casio be repaired?

Brick my Casio? Nightmare.. 

Thanks for warning me. 

I'll try to find a windows machine.

Hi there,

any linux users in here? I wanted to update firmware of my xw g1.

I started Updater.exe via wine but it always tells me "not connected".

Maybe someone already solved this problem?

DataEditorG1.exe works fine using wine. 

Thanks in advance