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Posted on: June 22, 2014 @ 12:12 PM
rasikaw
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Hello,
I have a problem with loading new voices to my MO6.
None of my USB flash drives work with the unit.
I have tried with a 2Gb stick formatted to FAT16 but no luck.
Unfortunately I do not have any smart media cards or card reader.
Is there any workaround for this? Does anyone know of well known brands which wor with MO6?
Many thanks in advance!!

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Posted on: June 22, 2014 @ 12:23 PM
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The fact that neither your MO nor your Motif ES can deal with the USB drive, it is likely the drive.

If the drive comes with COPY PROTECTION this can prevent your instruments from utilizing it. In such a case, you can usually download a removal tool. (No, you cannot just format the drive to remove the copy protection, that wouldn’t be much protection, now would it!) :-)

After running the removal utility, you’ll find you can use the drive. (That’s a ‘best guess’ given the amount of information you provided about the USB drive).

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Posted on: June 22, 2014 @ 12:30 PM
rasikaw
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Thanks Bad_Mister for the fast reply.
Well, the 2Gb flash drive that I have did not have any copy protection. Could you please recommend me a copy protection removal tool? I have windows 7 64 Bit System.
Regards

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Posted on: June 22, 2014 @ 12:32 PM
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No, I don’t know the brand of the USB drive… look, you do, simply go to the manufacturer of the drive’s website, and get the product information. You’d be amazed at the things you can find out on the internet…

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Posted on: June 22, 2014 @ 12:35 PM
rasikaw
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I had this flash stick for a while. I have always used it with my motif XF without a problem. I’m very puzzled.

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Posted on: June 22, 2014 @ 12:46 PM
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Okay, so it’s not a new drive, if you used it previously then obviously there is no worry about Copy Protection. When you plug the drive in, does the synth report the size and amount used

Press [FILE]
Press [F1] CONFIG
Press [SF1] CURRENT

If it says 0.0 as the statistics it is truly not seeing the drive.

Check it in your computer, verify that there is still data on the drive. Perhaps it is just not seating properly in the port.

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Posted on: June 23, 2014 @ 09:05 PM
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The machine does not display the statistics or amount used. The computer sees the drive OK.
However, I made a work around by using a USB card reader and an old SD card. Works fine for me.
Thank you for feedback!

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Posted on: July 03, 2014 @ 09:08 AM
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Long ago when the MO series first came out some of the SanDisk Cruzer drives had an autoloading Windows program pre-installed that locked up the MO series. The flash worked fine in a computer but the MO didn’t see it or locked up. Can’t recall what the program was called but there was a removal tool and once it was gone the flash worked fine.

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