I'll be darned! It worked!

I never thought there would be digitized versions of the old cassette tape "data / noise". I burned the .wav files to an audio cd, played it and apparently every patch loads fine (I didn't try all of them just because the overacker page has a lot of libraries).

Thanks to Mark and to all who suggested fixes -unfortunately, I never got the synth to recognize any sysex command (early OS maybe ) but the audio files did the trick.

--- In oberheim@yahoogroups.com , "markjroller" <mroller@...> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I had probs with my matrix 6 and transferring sysex patches until I upgraded it to 2.13
>
> I didn't have any cassettes to load patches from, so here's what I did...
>
> Download the wav files from this page:
> http://www.overacker.com/oberheim.htm
>
> Drag each wav into iTunes and name approprately
>
> Sync them your iPod or iPhone or iPad
>
> Connect the audio cable from your ipod/iphone/ipad whatever to your Matrix
>
> Press "Load from Cassette" on your Matrix while pressing play on your ipod/iphone/ipad
>
> Try to time these correctly or you may miss a patch or two.
>
> If you have problems with errors, adjust the volume on your ipod/iphone/ipad to about 90%
>
> good luck!
>
> mark
>
> --- In oberheim@yahoogroups.com , "sloppyjoe6412" <sloppyjoe6412@> wrote:
> >
> > Hi, I own a Matrix 6 with a blank memory. I have the original cassette tape but every attempt I made to load the presets failed. Also failed at trying to send any patch data / commands via laptop. And since I'm neither good nor patient at experimenting with so many numbered parameters (it's easier playing with a few knobs as in my P600), my Matrix 6 is essentially collecting dust.
> >
> > In summary, does anybody have a PRINTED list of parameters of some good or at least well known patches, something I can use as a starting point to tweak things by myself I understand it's a slow and backwards way to do patch programming, but the alternative is to not use the synth at all.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
>