From Kenny Balys Sent Sat, Oct 5th 2019, 12:35
From Kenny Balys Sent Sat, Oct 5th 2019, 12:35
Ebay is flooded with shit birds selling fake or illegal synth stuff. Thank you for posting this. I am always interested in hearing these strange corner cases with exotic synths. At least, the MwII is bootstrapping so it should be able to receive. If your MIDI path is clean and the data stream is known good and it still does not work, then you may have a machine suffering from the rare (but not unknown) FLASH infant mortality issue. In this case, you will need to cook off the old flash chips and replace them. Hope its not that. Best wishes on your repair. On 05.10.19 12:27 , DJ Maytag wrote: > Found an answer: > > “There is no such thing as a Microwave II EPROM chip - it is a flash based > device. Don't buy update files, these are free. The chips ocassionally offered > on ebay as such seem to be Microwave I rev.2 EPROMs. > > Stuck "waiting for host" actually sounds good - the update routine is not dead, > but your MIDI transfer is failing, which will be computer or interface side. Try > again with other cables, MIDI interfaces, bulk transfer utilities and/or a > period version of Windows (XP or earlier).” > > http://www.instagram.com/djmaytag > http://www.soundcloud.com/djmaytag > https://choon.co/artists/djmaytag/ > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > *From:* Computer Controlled <xxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx> > *Sent:* Saturday, October 5, 2019 1:12 AM > *To:* Analogue Heaven > *Subject:* [AH] Non functioning Waldorf uWave 2. > I'm gonna try this again, but some years back i bought a non functioning > uWave2. It was apparently bricked during an OS update. It starts up, and is > stuck on *MW2P V1.3 Waiting For Host. *None of the knobs or buttons do > anything. I've tried various combos of button presses while booting it up, but > nothing. Has anyone experienced this and managed to get it to finally boot? > I'm thinking about buying the V2.33 OS chips to see if replacing the OS chips in > this unit will work. I've had this sitting around for years now and really > want to get it up and running. Any help would be appreciated. > > -Larry