Casm lenght problems

[Dick Rector]

Dear people,
After a crash during a thunderstorm many styles will not load anymore.
Investigation in midiplayer: 'The style has casm lenght problems'.
And the advice is to load the style in the keyboard and save it again.... yes but the style will not load in the keyboard!

Any suggestions how to solve this?

Regards
Dick

[overover]

... After a crash during a thunderstorm many styles will not load anymore. ...

Hi Dick,

do you mean a crash of you PC or a crash of your Keyboard (during that thunderstorm)?

Where were these Styles saved when this crash occurred?

Did you COPY the Styles to a different storage device (e. g. USB stick or PC hard drive) later?


Best regards,
Chris

[Dick Rector]

Hi Dick,

do you mean a crash of you PC or a crash of your Keyboard (during that thunderstorm)?

Where were these Styles saved when this crash occurred?

Did you COPY the Styles to a different storage device (e. g. USB stick or PC hard drive) later?


Thanks Chris,
The styles are on the PC and yes I have backups on USB from before the crash so I'm safe (thanks heaven).
The later backups have the same problems and are unreadable.

I only would like to know out of interest what could have create the problem and how to solve it if possible.

Best regards,
Dick

[overover]

... The styles are on the PC and yes I have backups on USB from before the crash so I'm safe (thanks heaven).
The later backups have the same problems and are unreadable.

I only would like to know out of interest what could have create the problem and how to solve it if possible. ...

Hi Dick,

if the Styles were on a conventional (mechanical) hard drive on the PC when the crash occured, I can not imagine how the Style files could be damaged.

If your PC has built in a SSD (solid state drive), it is more likely that files were be damaged during a thunderstorm, but not only the Style files then.


As a precaution, I would uninstall and then re-install the MidiPlayer program on the PC. But since the Styles do not work on the Keyboard either, this is probably not the main reason for that error messages.


Best regards,
Chris

[Ed B]

Hi Dick
From your original problem statement I gather some styles work okay. If this is the case you might find Jorgen's program "Style Fixer" helpful assuming it is the style and not MidiPlayer:

http://www.jososoft.dk/yamaha/software/sfix/index.htm

Hope this helps
Regards
Ed B

[Dick Rector]

Hi Dick
From your original problem statement I gather some styles work okay. If this is the case you might find Jorgen's program "Style Fixer" helpful assuming it is the style and not MidiPlayer:

http://www.jososoft.dk/yamaha/software/sfix/index.htm

Hope this helps
Regards
Ed B

Thanks Ed,
Yes some are still working but most are damaged. I found out in the meantime that those styles don't have a casm at all anymore.
Strange problem, lightning has his own secrets. It was out of the blue and unexpected a very heavy thunderclap that crashed the computer during a power-cut. Normally with that kind of tropical storms I unplug everything. But I do have working backups.

Best regards
Dick

[Ed B]

Hi Dick
With Jorgen's program you can put in a new CASM if that is any help. Good that you have backups. I put a surge protector on the main AC to prevent problems it seems to work okay.
Regards
Ed B

[Dick Rector]

Hi Dick
With Jorgen's program you can put in a new CASM if that is any help. Good that you have backups. I put a surge protector on the main AC to prevent problems it seems to work okay.
Regards
Ed B

Thanks for the input Ed,
Yes I do have Jorgens program en started it. It is a bit slow and it changes the styles to SFF1 and takes some other bits and pieces out so I decided to use the backups.
Surge protector is a must on all sensitive electronics, special here in Indonesia. Power fluctuates a lot. I use them always but this lightning was obviously to much.
Problem solved anyway.

Best regards
Dick

[Joe H]

Dick,

I would suggest you get the largest capacity surge protector for your PC and keyboard.  I live in a place where there are electrical storms and power outages as well.  As the saying goes... "An once of prevention is worth a pound of cure!"

BTW... when you load your SFF1 styles into your keyboard and save them back to your USB drive Style Creator will automatically convert them to SFF2.

Joe H

[Dick Rector]

Thanks for the reaction Joe.
I couldn't be bothered with converting/repairing them as I have the back ups. I only wonder why many are affected and others not.

Regards
Dick