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THANK YOU: 307 FIXED!...? (was Re: MIDI files problem on a Mac:"Logical end-of-file reached..."
To all who offered help, I say THANK YOU. You kids are an amazing
resource of knowledge. Last night I had success.... I think. It seems
OK. I'm going to paste the letter I sent to Roland Customer support
that's got the details if anyone is interested:
I just want to thank you for those files... they didn't work either.
However, I was able to finally open them as MIDI files. The key was
telling Suffit NOT to assume they were text files upon decompression.
And you have to do it with an older version of stuffit, as newer ones
no longer give you that option. If customers have this problem in the
future tell them that Stuffit 5 has a control panel in it's preferences
that says, "Cross Platform" Make sure, "Open as text..." is checked
NEVER. Anyway, I was then able to open your files, but I'd start
loading one and after one file was done the 307 would just start
blinking "SYS" R, 3, 4 and 7.
A link sent to me by someone on the yahoo 307 group pointed me to an
official Roland page that had the download. (on the Roland Groove
site) I tried the mac version, and that did not work either. For
giggles, I downloaded the PC version and it began to work! What's up
with those Mac files? I DON'T KNOW. So I get through all the Program
files, and press 5 then 7 to get the display to switch to DAT and it
won't happen. No key sequence seemed to do anything. Hrrm. I
rebooted and pressed 5 and 7, getting the DAT display. I loaded one
file and it started with the blinking again. I gave up. I figured it
was off to Roland service for a while. For some reason, I wanted to
see if something I put in it stuck, so I tried booting her up... it
worked! There was good 'ol psy trance: the most annoying sequence
ever! I did a reset, and everything seems fine! What are those data
files? Weird. Funny thing is a emailed people who said they got it to
work right off, but no one using a Mac. I wonder if there's issues
with the mac files you have and you don't know it. I still can't help
wondering about the loading of a .mid causing it to start blinking at
the end of the file...and all the .dat files that didn't load... who
knows? Maybe I'll have it melt down later today and this will all be
moot.
Thanks for your help,
Mark Sottilaro