Yessssss ..... Je vais donner la vraie procédure en anglais et French, parce que quelque part, cette machine a été oubliée de tous. Hélas
If the desk is on, turn it off. Wait 15 secs. Turn on it.
This will lit on the screen "the desk can't start, need midi dump" (not exactly but like that).
Place the new cell, solder it, scotch it, what you find. ...
On this site, on this blog, you saw 3 files to download... Take them on your hard disk, don't try to burn them on a dvd or cd to bring them on another computer (ouch, you can have some problems). make sure that you have a real sequencer... The only one is Cubase. Trust me, with another midi player it doesn't works). For reference, the speed of the 3 sequences must be 30 bpm... Very important.
So. You have your dead mixing desk, a simple midi interface, a computer with the 3 rom files.... AND IMPORTANT : The mixing desk is powered plug on a manual switched multiplug. Cause if you're alone, you must have 2 hands for the shortcuts and 1 foot to turn on the desk.... Incredible thing but real.
Now the roots.
open Cubase, open "main". Turn on the desk who say " cannot start, must do something"....
The basic channel is "1". connect your midi interface to the mixing desk. OUT from comuter, IN in the mixing desk. What a difficult job.
Press play on the comuter (don't forget the 30 bpm, not 120, by default midi sequence).... Wait 2 years.... No, wait approx 7 minutes (on the mixing console, you will see the download process (Main, Bin, Packet, etc)... After the midi file reading, you will see on the mixing desk "Upgrading main roms".... So cool
After that, the mixing desk will reboot and the screen will show "FATAL ERROR 136-000-000-XX" Fuck fuck fuck you can thing....
That's the point. NORMAL THING.
Turn off the mixing desk.
IT'S THE MORE IMPORTANT THING NOW.
Under the screen, you have the central section with pots and "eq" buttons on the right. On the right of the screen, you have a "shift" button. On the bar-graphe meter, under each meter, you have a "rec ready button".
So, with the desk off, press simultaneously "eq", "shift", "20 rec button" and turn on the desk (for me, two hands and one foot on the on-off ac-plug).... This will reset the PSRAM..... And the console will reboot after that.... Clean and cool.
It works now
But if you want to update the 2 other files (PANEL and REMOTE) it's very simple.
On the mixing desk, press shift, select MIDI/MMC, find the page with MIDI parameters , select OMNI ON. After that load the PANEL file (MIDIFILE) on Cubase. Start the sequence and the console will automatically start in download mode. At the end, the desk screen will show "writing kernel, 01 verify, done, writing kernel 02, verify, done, etc etc.... and reboot.
After that, on Cubase, load the third file (remote), and play it; The mixing desk will automatically download the file. (another time be carefull of the 30 bpm). After that, the mixinge desk will update the roms and reboot.
File upload completed, the mixing desk is full, plenty-usable.
That's the end and it works.
For the rest, I made a custom link between the battery placement and the rear of my desk, with 2 skinny cables, and a cell "outdoor" I choose a different battery model used on broadcast systems. The reference is CR123 A. This is the strongest version of the 3Volts lithium cells. Anyway, if the 60cm cables derivation have a power loss, I don't care, I will never have to unscrew my desk in the future.
Enjoy
Stephane GIL
Edit:
I thought about one thing.... It's unscrew, it's military grey, it's in steel......
Now, How can I pimp my mixing desk ?
hiiiiiiihaaaaaaaa !!!
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