I just ran onto a weird problem with the SD card.
I have 2 cards, the original 8MB supplied by Technics and a 128MB Sandisk card. Both have worked OK in the KN7000 and in the Cruzer SD card reader on the PC.
However, when I tried to look at the Kn7000mn.inf file with the Hex Editor, It would not read the .inf file on the 8MB card. The error message was that the disk contained a FAT12 volume. What was weird is that the hex editor has always read FAT12 files (used on floppies).
I tried formatting the card using the KN7000, saved a few files, and had the same problem.
The answer was to format the card using the PC and then form the file structure (Private/Technics/Kn7000)using the PC. After that, everything was back to normal.
I don't know what happened, but that was the only way that I could recover from the problem.
Note that I could always read the files on the PC using Windows Explorer, so if you run into this problem, simply copy your SD card contents to a temporary folder on your PC hard drive, re-format the card and then copy the folder structure and files from the hard drive back to the SD card.
I hope that this helps anyone else that runs into unexplainable problems with the SD card.
Walt

you will not have this problem with the panasonic reader, it reads both pc formatted and 7k/Jukebox formatted cards.

if you format on the pc you will not be able to use the card for digital audio.

Thanks, I thought maybe I was going goofy. I haven't tried digital audio on the card, but since I'm not interested in that aspect of the Kn7000, I'm comfortable with the Sandisk reader. The card works fine in all other respects. This might explain some of the questions that have been asked about the Panasonic reader vs. the Cruzer.
Walt

Howdy all.

I can get the KN 3000 styles onto the SD card for the KN 2600 but when I try to load a single composer style I get error message 81. The manual only goes to 71 for error messages.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

I own a kn6, not a kn7, so this doesn't apply to me, but just seeing Alec's tutorial took me right back to the VERY early days of the kn6 ...
Keep up the great work Alec ... we will just have to make sure we have the same board you get to replace technics when the time comes ..
t.

Alec!
I will recommend you for the Nobelprize...

Lindoz

I, too, get the error 81 message on everything I've tried.

you can't load a single composer from a file that is not the native format of the machine you are trying to load from. Load the file, save it back again on the 2600 to make it 2600 format, then single load should work from the new 2600 save.

I'm still confused I guess I downloaded the files for the KN 2600 from this site http://www.technicskn7000.com/software.asp?catid=31 and the sub catagory was KN SD Card Style Library for KN2600 and KN7000. For some reason I feel real stupid I've been selling and using Technics MI products for 15 years.


[This message has been edited by Keywiz (edited 03-20-2004).]

all the downloads on www.technicskn7000.com will load into the kn7000 and are in kn7000 format, but those that are in subcategories for the kn2600, kn2400, pr804, pr604, pr54 etc will also load fine into those machines to play the styles and registrations.

Your question was about single composer load, which is page 3 of the load screen. This will only work with the native format of the machine. Thus a kn6000 save will load normally into a kn7000, but if you try a single load it will not work. If you load the kn6000 file and immediately save it on the kn7000 to make it a kn7000 format file, the single load will now work normally from this file.