[A6] Sysex Dump

[Dr. Georg Müller]

Larry Pham schrieb:
> 
> not sure if you guys remember me posting a little while ago about a problem
> with my A6 hanging from switching from mix to mix..... Just to follow up on
> that.... after archiving my patches and mixes I reinitialized the ram in the
> A6 and reloaded a new bank (Joerg Huttners, really nice might I add) which I
> DL'ed from the Alesis site. After doing so my A6 has not froze since :-) So
> it was probably a bad patch some where in one of the mixes that was the
> problem. Not sure how it happened. Could it be that using a combination of
> mods and settings will cause the A6 to freeze? Anyway if any one has more
> info i would definitely like to know.

If the patch is corrupted, that is a value is out of range, the synth may 
freeze. This is known from other synths as well. Patch data can get corrupted
during a sysex transfer, that´s why usually a check sum is used.

The synth engine is usually not using code to do range checks at runtime,
which would cost performance. Waldorf once tried to do this kind of checks,
but the implementation caused more problem than it was trying to solve,
so it was removed again.

Usually you can´t get into such a state via the frontpanel, but I know one
synth, which may even then freeze in one specific combination of settings.

Georg.