[A6] Memory card problem

[Chris Pickett]

Hello,

Um, I'm not an authority or anything (most of these guys have been here 
way longer), but if it were me I would try and get my money back for the 
512k cards and get a 2Mb (the maximum size addressable by the A6) card from

*paste from someone else's message*

http://www.timasci.com/sram.htm 

they sell the Pretec 2 MB SRAM Card SN5002-P @ 79.99 
(that's 10$ over what i paid a year ago btw)

the ones without "Attribute Memory" will do just fine <

.......
I don't know if

a) something is wrong with your card
b) something is wrong with your A6 (possible)
c) you're doing something wrong.

All I can say is, you might want to let the store light flash for say, 5 
minutes during initialization, and not interrupt it.

Cheers,
Chris

Susan Baird wrote:

>Hi All,
>
>Sioux here. I just got my A6 a couple of months ago and LOVE it to death!
>I'm sorry to say "hello" and immediately post a problem but I'm having one
>and I don't think Alesis tech support can help. If anyone here has any
>suggestions I surely would appreciate it.
>
>I just bought two 512k memory cards. I put the card in and follow the
>directions in the manual for initializing the card:
> 
>1) Hit store. 
>2) Press soft button 6.
>3) Turn soft knob 1 to "Hit Store to Init Ram Card."
>4) Press Store. 
>
>At this point in the manual, it says to follow the prompts for whether you
>want the card to store Programs, Mixes or Both. What I see at the top of the
>screen is "512k card." Underneath that I see a darkened strip that says, "
>SB1=Prog, SB2=Mixes, SB3=Prog+Mix." In the manual it says to follow the
>prompts. It seems like it wants me to choose one of those but I don't see an
>SB3 anywhere to choose. Is there something I'm supposed to do here?
>
>The store light is flashing at this point. If I hit it, it says, "card error
>or the card is not initialized." If I press store again, the light stops
>flashing and it appears that the card is initialized. When I choose soft
>button 6 now it shows the "512k card" at the top and underneath it says "0
>Banks and 0 Mixes." So it seems like the card is initialized and available.
>
>Next I try to store a Program User patch to the card. I've followed the
>instructions and everything works up to the destination bank. The card does
>not show up. 
>
>If I cut off the A6 and then restart it, I get an error message saying "card
>error or that the card is not initialized" and to "hit store to initialize"
>it. I hit store and everything seems normal until I try to save a patch and
>the card is not available as the destination bank.
>
>Sorry to be so long winded. I wanted to be as clear as possible in hopes
>someone would know the answer. My guess is either that I'm missing something
>in the prompt to choose what I want to store on the card, or something is
>wrong with that part of the synth. I have 2 cards and I have the same
>problem with both.
>
>Thanks a million for any help!
>I'm looking forward to being here and meeting you all.
>
>Cheers,
>Sioux 
>
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