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I emailed RCM.parts@roland.com back in June about this, but never got a response.

How can I get this in Canada?

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 unfinished). I have occasionally sent program change message (MSB+LSB+PC) to se...

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 data, such as waveform list etc. exists in the firmware to support the FA's sup...

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 some images of the inside of a roland FA06. Maybe on boot time the FA looks fo...

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 couldn't move it too much because the LCD screen ribbon cable runs over the metal cas...

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 that they built the keyboard and firmware with all the EXP packs in mind, then s...

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 then goto the screen with the version info it shows what 2 EXPs are loaded. Im ...

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 keyboard, this topic may not be for you. The main reason for this research was to figu...

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, but there's no way I can play a pattern like that. Then again Yamaha's ...

Perhaps check the USB stick is formatted to FAT32?

Give the rest of Roland a chance to catch up. This is probably an initiative started by Roland US. The other countries might make the same offer in the near future, like they did with the other overlays. I sure hope so. I want a set for mine here in Canada. Ditto, in Canada here and I just got a us...

I believe MIDI-OX has some all-notes off functions, if you have a PC available to do this.

Something else that just occurred to me, since this isn't just a standard SRX like were expecting, does that mean there's potential for future FA EXP packs to have SN-Acoustic tones I wonder?

That soundbank sounds awesome! Have you noticed this statement in the readme file: "It will take approximately three minutes to load per slot." I find a total of 6 minutes for loading/switching 2 slot a long time. That does seem long for 32mb of data, perhaps they're just saying that to co...

There was an issue with the Integra 7 that if you used lots of channels as SN instruments, you'd start to hit performance problems, as demonstrated in this sound clip: https://soundcloud.com/takeshi-kamiya/sample-roland-integra-7-has At the time, I believe Roland stated that this is a known issue wi...