Edirol V-8 Bricked (E00)

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Hey! I’ve managed to ‘brick’ my Edirol V-8 by accidentally going into the midi update system menu. It powers on, but now only displays E00 on the display, there is no video output and I can’t access the menu.

I can still access the midi update system, however, I don’t have a SysEx file to upload. Does anyone happen to know if one exists, and if so, where I could download it please?

Thanks!

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The V8 manuals may have a factory reset button combination.

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You could also ask Cat Full of Ghosts, he is is the Edirol Midi Master.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/synth-bt/vidirol-control-roland-edirol-video-mixers

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…and he recently registered here - if i just could remember his nick now - uhm?…

…ah! - easy: calling @Cat_Full_of_GHOSTS …

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Thanks! I’ve tried the reset button inputs but unfortunately it still goes straight to E00.

I originally messaged @Cat_Full_of_GHOSTS via Etsy as I thought he might be able to point me in the right direction and he pointed me here :grin:

I’ve been able to access the midi update boot loader again but I think I need a valid firmware SysEx file which I’m struggle to find online.

It seems like the midi update clears the current firmware before trying to update, but without a firmware I’m now stuck.

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@RootNotez thanks for linking to the Kickstarter, backed!

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…sorry, i do not have time to read up on this at the moment, but if there is anything that you find which would allow me to export the firmware from my V-8 to a SYSEX-file i can send you i’d be happy to help you with this…

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…i guess you have already tried the Wayback-Machine (link to V-8 specific content):

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Thank you, I’ve tried looking into this. I know there is a way to dump V-8 settings into a SysEx file but I don’t think there is a way to do it with the firmware but I’ll keep digging.

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I have, no luck unfortunately. I think firmwares were stored in something called “Service Net” which I believe was for authorised technicians only and not publicly available.

It’s a long shot but I’ve even contacted Roland to see if they have the firmware in their achieves and if they’d be able to send me it if so. I don’t expect they will, but figured it was worth asking.

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UPDATE: Roland replied and sent the firmware. My V-8 is working again - I can’t believe they still had the firmware and were willing to send it to me.

Thanks everyone for your help.

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I was gonna say, Roland usually give out the OS files, they have done so for me in the past too, for a way older 1980s synth. They made mistakes in that OS at the time, and were still honouring the work, and sending out Eprom chips to users via the postal service.

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should we upload a copy here and archive it?

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Yeah, I have both the V-4 and V-8 firmwares now too. I’ll upload them both here tomorrow when I’m at my PC.

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This site DBWBP.com - Synthesizer ROM archive
has a great resource of synth, workstation, sampler eprom files.
(I add here as a useful reference)

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Hello, did you got time to upload this ? thxxx :slight_smile:

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you can also just ask Roland; they will send them you!

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Hi. Are you still planning to upload the V-8 firmware here (or somewhere?). I reached out to Roland to obtain it myself, just in case I ever need it, but they’re pushing back for some reason.

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