Is this just me? I'm on a Pioneer's run LXR and it always seems to update correctly, e.g. just now to V 0.24a - but my booting-up splashscreen always says V0.21 - even after I have just completed an update...
are you sure you have the right firmware file on the SD card? did you see the binary counter thingy on the step buttons followed by the "update complete, please reboot" screen?
So you've put the FIRMWARE.BIN in the root folder of your SD card? Is the SD card working in general? Can you load/save presets? Which bootloader version does it show? How is the SD card formatted? Fat32?
first off all: thank you for this incredible synth! After testing a while, I would like to share my experiences here. Is there something like a bug list? I am using firmware version 0.24a.
Bugs?:
External Midi Out: I can confirm that no Note_Off commands are sent resulting in a never-ending stacking of the same note for all of my hardware synths.
Midi channel: I can confirm that the initial value for the channel after updating the firmware is 0. You can change this value only in the detailed page to 1-16. After that you can't choose the 0 anymore. The LXR can only be played on channel 1 no matter which channel you select.
LFO-Morph: When you use a Morphing Pattern and it uses a different wave form/modulation than the initial pattern, the LFO and it's parameters are not morphed. The wave form and destination of the initial pattern is used instead.
Screensaver: The screensaver looks strange in the load/save-menu. It shows up but the menu is not blanked.
Wishlist:
Saving/loading of individual voices: This would be nice for building up a little voice library. In this case selectable categories for each voice woulde be perfect.
It would be cool if the lxr would sync to midi clock when it receives it and uses the set bpm tempo otherwise. Some of my synths have this auto function. So you don't have to set the bpm to 0 when you want to sync the lxr externally.
A option for automatically loading of the last pattern/set after booting.
A option for saving/loading sets/patterns/morph patterns per midi dump.
A possability to change the midi note of individual voices (the position of the voice on a external keyboard).
A option for switching octaves for each voice in the performance mode.
I don´t like the idea of buying an 8 Gigabyte SD-Card and only using 0,001 % of it. So I would like to recycle an old 32 MB Card for the LXR.
I will try it again this evening. Either in DOS-Box or using an old Win2000 Laptop. Somewhere I read OS X uses FAT16 below 2 GB and FAT32 above 2 GB automatically.
Yes i put the FIRMWARE.BIN in the root folder of my SD card. The SD card works, i can load and save presets. Bootloader 1.1 Yes it's fat32 formated
Julian what can i do with this?
i have the same issue. it says .21 even tho i have only .24a on the card. maybe just a string that needs changed in the firmware and is superficial? note: i took the image from github and did hold down the encoder during boot. it found the file and updated.
Please correct me if i'm wrong: By definition of the apache foundation is a software version 0.xx.a not a major release. So i would know how you handle alpha,beta, minor, majors? What is the 0.24a ? How can we help to investigate in your development ?
Yes i put the FIRMWARE.BIN in the root folder of my SD card. The SD card works, i can load and save presets. Bootloader 1.1 Yes it's fat32 formated
Julian what can i do with this?
i have the same issue. it says .21 even tho i have only .24a on the card. maybe just a string that needs changed in the firmware and is superficial? note: i took the image from github and did hold down the encoder during boot. it found the file and updated.
ok i ended up fixing this. i cloned the repo and copied that firmware file (which i should have done from the start) and it displays .24a now. you can't try to right-click save-as the file on this page as I suspect people are doing https://github.com/SonicPotions/LXR/tree/master/firmware image. you end up with a 29k file that looks like a proper .bin file.
ok i ended up fixing this. i cloned the repo and copied that firmware file (which i should have done from the start) and it displays .24a now. you can't try to right-click save-as the file on this page as I suspect people are doing https://github.com/SonicPotions/LXR/tree/master/firmware image. you end up with a 29k file that looks like a proper .bin file.
Mine takes 25k file, ok i re formated an old san disk 2Gb card and now works fine 0.24a
the alternative if people don't want to use git is to click the "Download Zip" link at the bottom of the right column on this page: https://github.com/SonicPotions/LXR
ok i ended up fixing this. i cloned the repo and copied that firmware file (which i should have done from the start) and it displays .24a now. you can't try to right-click save-as the file on this page as I suspect people are doing https://github.com/SonicPotions/LXR/tree/master/firmware image. you end up with a 29k file that looks like a proper .bin file.
I think the easiest way to get the complete file is to click the above mentioned link. Then left-click "FIRMWARE.BIN" in the middle. (Don´t try "right-click - download"! This doesn´t work and gives you a smaller file.) On the next page left-click "RAW" at the right side (between "Open" and "History"). Next a dialog appears where you choose "save file". I did this and got a 246k file. This way you only download the one desired file.
I'm afraid the sample upload is the same as before. I tried different approaches with dma driven background loaders and even raw files in the flash, but it always resulted in audio drop outs. :-(
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v0.24a
MD5 (FIRMWARE.BIN) = b1ba2a770d65379e043a4a9938cedf77
SHA1 (FIRMWARE.BIN) = 213da3809365ca049a5797fcd78c5b6bc93b6d74
SHA256 (FIRMWARE.BIN) = 9d87676e29ad5d8d681b706f57c4f9ec4d56aff6a19602386437dbbf1be846a6
Thanks for the new version! Testing right now...
did you see the binary counter thingy on the step buttons followed by the "update complete, please reboot" screen?
Is the SD card working in general? Can you load/save presets?
Which bootloader version does it show?
How is the SD card formatted? Fat32?
first off all: thank you for this incredible synth!
After testing a while, I would like to share my experiences here.
Is there something like a bug list?
I am using firmware version 0.24a.
Bugs?:
- External Midi Out: I can confirm that no Note_Off commands are sent resulting in a never-ending stacking of the same note for all of my hardware synths.
- Midi channel: I can confirm that the initial value for the channel after updating the firmware is 0. You can change this value only in the detailed page to 1-16. After that you can't choose the 0 anymore. The LXR can only be played on channel 1 no matter which channel you select.
- LFO-Morph: When you use a Morphing Pattern and it uses a different wave form/modulation than the initial pattern, the LFO and it's parameters are not morphed. The wave form and destination of the initial pattern is used instead.
- Screensaver: The screensaver looks strange in the load/save-menu. It shows up but the menu is not blanked.
Wishlist:Sent from my iPhone using [URL=http://tapatalk.com/m?id=1]Tapatalk[/URL]
Thank you!
I don´t like the idea of buying an 8 Gigabyte SD-Card and only using 0,001 % of it. So I would like to recycle an old 32 MB Card for the LXR.
I will try it again this evening. Either in DOS-Box or using an old Win2000 Laptop. Somewhere I read OS X uses FAT16 below 2 GB and FAT32 above 2 GB automatically.
I know. Stupid problem as SD Cards are so cheap...
By definition of the apache foundation is a software version 0.xx.a not a major release.
So i would know how you handle alpha,beta, minor, majors?
What is the 0.24a ?
How can we help to investigate in your development ?
http://superuser.com/questions/527657/how-do-you-format-a-2gb-sd-card-to-fat32-preferably-with-disk-utility
Either way, very glad to see these updates! Thanks Julian.
Thanks, Julian!