Hi Folks.
My German is not bad but as said before
download Babel Fish and copy and paste.
Now to my question!! what will I gain in updating? Will I get extra voices? or a better KN7000! Or what happends if things go wrong,would the software for the KN7000 have to be reinstalled?
is it better to leave well alone and be satisfied with what I have! or am I missing something?
It sounds a little complicated to me but may be not so when I have looked at it.
Again Alec comes up with the answer, he's a treasure.
More posts like this please everyone has to learn and no better place than righr here.
Regards.
Joe

Can I ask also what is gained by upgrading? Is it worth it please?

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Alan Minnear

Hi Joe, and thanks,

from memory ver 1.5 did:

1. Bitmap pics for HOME page can be selected.
2. SD-Card %age used display corrected
3. Drum Track with transposed files corrected for use with MIDI out.
4. Audio files on SD-Card all now recognised.
5. The SD-Card Control File less chance of corruption - backup created.
6. Corrections to Technichords which either don't work or produce the wrong results e.g. "add9", "madd9"

1.5 was released early incorrectly by a German dealer and created a new bug if soundcards were installed, 1.5 was therefore quickly withdrawn and 1.6 corrected this bug.

Having downloaded the upgrade disc and placed it in the K7 floppy disc drive, when I pressed the load button, nothing shewed up
on the screen. What am I doing wrong?
Derek

not reading my instructions above.

These are the instructions in English as provided to me by Technics for the upgrade. It's been a very long time so I can't remember much of the details. Maybe this will help with the German version translation.

To upgrade your SXKN7000 to Version 1.6

1. Turn the power off and insert Disk 1 into the disk drive.
2. Press and hold down panel memory buttons 1, 2, 3 and 4 at the same time.
3. While holding these 4 buttons, turn the keyboard on.
4. At the bottom of the screen choose “diskchk”.
5. Choose ‘check at the lower left.
6. Change to Disk 2.
7. After check is completed it will say OK Turn On Again.
8. Repeat steps 1 – 3.
9. This time choose Update – Follow instructions on screen to upgrade your SXKN7000 to version 1.6.

Bob, I waited for ages for after I inserted disc 2 for the "OK turn on again" message but it never came. Did I do something wrong?

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Alan Minnear

you have a bad disk 2, make another with a different floppy. Upgrading with a bad disk can destroy the 7k hence the vital importance of the disk check.

I agree with Alec. Make new disks and start over from scratch.

Hi Alec,
I followed your instructions to the letter, but no disc check warning appeared.
Derek