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Re: Free FA Overlays from Roland in FA-06 / FA-07 / FA-08 · 18 Sep 2018

I emailed RCM.parts@roland.com back in June about this, but never got a response. How can I get this in Canada?

Re: Firmware analysis - Potential to load all EXPs w/ hw mod in FA-06 / FA-07 / FA-08 · 8 Nov 2017

Hi Jimmy Hacking firmware is very interesting activity. And very time consuming. Would like to share one interesting thing which I have noticed few years ago while building arranger app for my FA-06 (the app, still left...

Re: Firmware analysis - Potential to load all EXPs w/ hw mod in FA-06 / FA-07 / FA-08 · 7 Nov 2017

Thanks AnalogHero! Their photos are kind of blurry though sadly, and it also looks like they had the same issue I did of the LCD ribbon cable stopping them moving the metal plate out the way. I would imagine that the EXP...

Re: Firmware analysis - Potential to load all EXPs w/ hw mod in FA-06 / FA-07 / FA-08 · 6 Nov 2017

I looked at the exp.bin files with a hexeditor and there is some epmty space in them, but not 16MB. Maybe there are two more chips somewhere. There is a lot of stuff on the mainboard. IIRC a user on this board has posted...

Re: Firmware analysis - Potential to load all EXPs w/ hw mod in FA-06 / FA-07 / FA-08 · 4 Nov 2017

I think the USB testpoint is just the main USB port on the back! I dismantled my FA-08 (man, there's a lot of screws on the bottom in the IKEA-esque bottom board) and managed to take a picture of the motherboard. I could...

Re: Firmware analysis - Potential to load all EXPs w/ hw mod in FA-06 / FA-07 / FA-08 · 3 Nov 2017

Now we see why Roland cant provide us with a simple EXP editor. Why did they put the EXP names AND waveform names in the FIRMWARE?!? Yeah, I expected them to be truly modular, much like the original SRX cards. It seems t...

Re: Firmware analysis - Potential to load all EXPs w/ hw mod in FA-06 / FA-07 / FA-08 · 2 Nov 2017

Very intresting. Maybe tdrf1 is already big enough to handle more than 2 EXPs. Problem i see is that even if you could copy more data to this location, it looks like it can hold only 2 EXPs anyway. If you check menu and...

Firmware analysis - Potential to load all EXPs w/ hw mod in FA-06 / FA-07 / FA-08 · 2 Nov 2017

Since the release of the v2 firmware online, this has allowed me to take a look at the inner workings of the Roland FA and figure out some interesting things. If you're not interested in the technical side of this keyboa...

Re: Which sax is this? in FA-06 / FA-07 / FA-08 · 31 Oct 2017

It's just that to get good acoustic guitars you really have to be able to play them well I think this is the key, for example selecting an SN-A acoustic guitar and then pressing the "Preview" button it sounds amazing, bu...

Re: Bin Files not showing up in FA-08 in FA-06 / FA-07 / FA-08 · 31 Oct 2017

Perhaps check the USB stick is formatted to FAT32?

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