Mgomes:

I can e-mail it to you if you want...

Stig

I do know this: some other synths that have floppy disk drives have a button combination that you hold down while you turn the machine on, and when it comes on it'll ask for disks. I tried a few button combinations, but no success. If you want, randomly try more, we'll come up with it sooner or later..

stigf

Please, mail the disks to

mau_gomes@yahoo.com

Thanks in advance.

Mgomes

Stig -

Could you e-mail that OS upgrade as well? Thanks!

Wilkes (your "decay noise" research partner)

e-mail: sdmullens@aol.com

Wilkes and Mgomes:

I have sent it to you....

Stig

Thanks, Stig...

Thanks, Stig

Now let´s figure out how to use it...

Mgomes

Now I know that this is gonna piss you guys off. I spoke to a Roland customer service and he argued with me over the phone that both the SC880 and XP60 have ROM chips nd that they can not be user upgraded.

At first I was pissed. Mainly because he denied that a Software upgrade even existed for the two machines and that the Denmark website had nothing to do with Roland US.

After I though about that for a while, I figured that he might be right. Here's why:

I remember ROM upgradeing my old XP50 with a Software Upgrade (1.3). It worked because XP50's with the Serial Numbers 00000-29753 had Flash ROM chips because Roland knew that they're were problems and that they would need to upgrade them later on. However, boards with Chip 1.2 didn't have Flash ROM. If these people wanted ROM 1.3, they would have to get it professionaly done.

It may be well the case that XP60s after a certain number doesn't have a Flash ROM chip. If you have Version 1.10, then you may be set, as that is the second to latest version.

Roland doens't even describe what this upgrade does and maybe it's supposed to be like that. Like I said, as soon as I turned my XP50 on with the disk in it, It started to upgrade itself. This is not the case with the XP60.

The Infamous EPU.

I think you have to keep some buttons pressed while turning on the synth to upgrade the OS. This is the way other Rolands (with floppy-disk) are upgraded.

I am quite sure the XP-60 has flash-ROM, as most E-series keyboards have this, and the JX and JP synths. It is just a question of finding out how to install it...

Stig