Hold Key # under the "Number" row (NOT the "Bank" row) while turning D-70 AC power on. 1 - Firmware version and date displayed 2 - Special Thanks Message to (names of people who helped w/ D-70) 3 - Toggle Quick/Slow bootup. The D-70 usually boots the LCD with a fancy bootup display flashing the D-70 text and takes about 5-6 seconds. Holding 3 then power-on will skip this bootup display and jump right to the display. The D-70 will stay in this quick bootup mode until toggled back to the slow bootup. To toggle back to the original bootup display, power cycle and hold #3 again while turning power on. 4 - Enable the D-70 to transmit the positions of the Tone Palette Sliders to MIDI. This way you can record e.g. pan, cutoff and resonance in real time. I've tried it and it works well. It transmits and receives via the control channel and therfore it can only affect one sound at a time. To check if this is 'ON' or 'OFF' jump to display 24. SYSTEM SETUP. If it's 'ON' it should display 'No key event on control channel'. [ 5/7/93 - Thanks to bfagerhe@ra.abo.fi ] 5 - Extended Product Mode (Bulk Midi Dump/Load). Press F1 to perform a midi dump. The D-70 will begin to dump all internal memory areas which will total up to 69 Kbytes or 70656 bytes of data. This is done at a high rate and is completed in about 24 seconds. I have not tried a Bulk Midi Load (pressing F2) and probably wouldn't unless I really had to. [ 5/6/93 - According to Roland this is actually compressed data of a 128Kbyte dump of memory. I'm not sure I really believe that, but the dump DOES look meaningless - nothing even close to the Sysex dump. It *could* be compressed data, but again very hard to tell. Roland claims you can load this "compressed" dump back into the D-70, but there's not much you could do to analyze what the dump itself means byte for byte - cyamamot@marconi.jpl.nasa.gov ] 6 - A/D Value Display. Show current values from various A/D circuits on the board. Some values include the Bender/C1/Brightness and even the Battery. Unfortunately, the values are in hexidecimal, not in representative units, so viewing '7C' for my battery doesn't say much. 7 - ???? If you find out, let us know. 8 - Clear All Memory. Confirm by pressing Enter. THIS IS HOW I LOST ALL MY DATA. Performing an Sysex load back into the D-70 did **NOT** cure the problem. It may be necessary to use the Bulk Midi Load on the #5 power-up to completely reload everything. The Clear All Memory appears to erase data that CANNOT be restored with just a Sysex reload. All the LCD text for tones/patches/etc were just garbled dots, as though the font information for the LCD was also wiped out. My guess is the #5 power-up Midi Load also contains font generation info for the LCD display so the D-70 can be used in other countries. [ 5/6/93 - At worst, you can purchase a "Factory Preset ROM Card" for $40 U.S to restore everything to default after performing this Clear All Memory. - cyamamot@marconi.jpl.nasa.gov ] [ 5/8/93 - There are a some people who have SUCESSFULLY used a Sysex load to restore their D-70 after performing "Clear All Memory". These people have firmware Version 1.17 whereas I have 1.10 and this could be a reason why my Sysex load didn't restore my D-70. Again, do this at your own risk - cyamamot@marconi.jpl.nasa.gov ] From island!guam.island.COM!kin@uunet.UU.NET Tue May 11 09:55:16 1993 Return-Path: Received: from jpl-mil by marconi.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (4.1/SMI-4.1+DXRs2.0) id AA03087; Tue, 11 May 93 09:55:15 PDT Received: from kilroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov by jpl-mil (4.1/SMI-4.1+xDXRm2.2) id AA15222; Tue, 11 May 93 09:48:39 PDT Received: from relay2.UU.NET by kilroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (4.1/SMI-4.1+DXRs2.0) id AA21094; Tue, 11 May 93 09:49:33 PDT Received: from spool.uu.net (via LOCALHOST.UU.NET) by relay2.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AA02543; Tue, 11 May 93 12:50:35 -0400 Received: from island.UUCP by spool.uu.net with UUCP/RMAIL (queueing-rmail) id 124859.2241; Tue, 11 May 1993 12:48:59 EDT Received: from guam.island.com by island.COM (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA02753; Tue, 11 May 93 08:51:07 PDT Received: by guam.island.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA09556; Tue, 11 May 93 08:52:49 PDT Date: Tue, 11 May 93 08:52:49 PDT From: kin@guam.island.COM (Kin Blas) Message-Id: <9305111552.AA09556@guam.island.com> To: d70-users@kilroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov, cassiel@cassiel.demon.co.uk Subject: Re: Creation of D70 Mailing List Cc: kin@guam.island.COM Status: OR Powering up with the number 4 button down toggles the D-70's ability to transmit Note ons and and Note offs on the control channel, so the D-70 can actually broadcast on 5 DIFFERENT MIDI channels at the same time. The control channel is not affected by the Tone/Zone/Split settings of the MIDI Palette. The "[KY]" on the System page means that the D-70 is not transmitting the Note Ons and Offs on the control channel. By the way, I learned this from the "Up and Running with the D-70" video put out by Roland. --== Kin Blas ==-- kin@island.com > From cassiel@cassiel.demon.co.uk Tue May 11 01:48:37 1993 > To: d70-users@kilroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov > X-Sender: (Unverified) > Subject: Re: Creation of D70 Mailing List > Content-Length: 668 > X-Lines: 13 > > >4 - Enable the D-70 to transmit the positions of the Tone Palette Sliders > > to MIDI. This way you can record e.g. pan, cutoff and resonance in > > real time. > > This is AFAIK the default; I've done it without any special power-up > sequences. The protocol is controller messages on the control channel, > affecting the selected "Keyboard Part". The "4" power-up sequence might > alter the functionality - I don't know - all I've noticed is that I get the > legend "[KY]" appear on the system page. I don't know what it means. > > Nick Rothwell | cassiel@cassiel.demon.co.uk > CASSIEL Contemporary Music/Dance | cassiel@cix.compulink.co.uk > >