Mac OS Tiger 10.4.6 problem updating Minimax to OS1.04

SekondThought · Post by **SekondThought** » Wed May 03, 2006 10:42 am

PLEASE HELP!

I have downloaded the Minimax editor for Mac (both version 1.0 and 2.0) and I cannot get my Minimax to update. First of all the only version I can get to work is 1.0 (which is funny, because when you use the "get info" feature, it says it's version 2.0 (2005) and when I do the same for 2.0, it says it's 3.0 (2006)).

Upon opening, it normally cannot open the MIDI devices (an Edirol UA4fx), but the rare times it actually does, all I can get it to do is know when it's being controlled by the Minimax ASB, refresh the version and serial number info and that's it! I cannot download presets or user sound lists to it (or from it), as it gets stuck. The same is true for the update, I find the file, enter the code and start it off, but after about 3 seconds, it sticks and that's it!

When I try to open version 2.0 (3.0?) of the editor, it closes before it can fully open and gives no reason as to why, so there's nothing I can do with it! Agh!!!!

If anyone has done this - or if there is something I am not doing - please help. My Minimax is version 1.01 and I'd very much like to update it. I have an iMac G5 1.9GHz with 512 RAM and 160GB HD running Tiger 10.4.6

Thanks in advance!

ali · Post by **ali** » Wed May 03, 2006 12:16 pm

I just sent you by email a new OSX version I got from HQ this morning.

please try it and report any comments/bugs to support@creamware.de and the guys will take care of them asap

SekondThought · Post by **SekondThought** » Wed May 03, 2006 12:45 pm

Thanks!

Which e-mail address did you send it to, as no such e-mail has arrived. If it doesn't show up by tomorrow, could you please send it again?

Many thanks

ali · Post by **ali** » Wed May 03, 2006 1:04 pm

I sent it to both emails provided on your planetz.

if you have another one feel free to send me a pm. the file is 2 megs

ali · Post by **ali** » Wed May 03, 2006 1:59 pm

resent to new email

SekondThought · Post by **SekondThought** » Wed May 03, 2006 3:46 pm

Thanks for your help on this one.

I got the e-mail and loaded up the software, which actually opened and worked first time. I loaded up the OS 1.04 file, entered my key code and started to send it to the Minimax via MIDI using my Edirol UA4fx. Everything went fine, the file ported over and I got a message saying it had been successful. I rebooted the ASB and refreshed the info, so I could see that it had the new version number, which is 00000104, but here is where things when wrong.

Rather than having the new OS number to show it had been updated, it still had the old Version 00000101 number in the box. I tried it again, but the same thing has happened, so I've e-mailed tech support in Germany (as you told me to), to see if there is anything I am doing wrong, if there is anything I have to do on the ASB before I start sending the file (both software and ASB are set to MIDI channel 1), and to see if there is some way in which this can be solved so that I can update my MInimax.

Thanks for your help, I'll keep you posted.

fx1mark · Post by **fx1mark** » Thu May 04, 2006 9:50 am

I emailed support at creamware and asked them if my version 00000102 was the most current and was told it was. even though i saw that there was a version 00000104 out there. I assumed that version wasn't ready yet.

SekondThought · Post by **SekondThought** » Thu May 04, 2006 11:39 am

I'm only going by what is available for download from the Creamware FTP site. I looked at the topic on here about what the latest version of the OS is and followed the link given, so I take it that it is 1.04, as far as I know.

ali · Post by **ali** » Thu May 04, 2006 11:48 am

the version I sent you yesterday was uploaded on the FTP today as I was told.

if the OS went fine and reported success then it is the latest you got so far.

SekondThought · Post by **SekondThought** » Fri May 05, 2006 2:20 am

I have just received an e-mail from Wolf Roth at Creamware, informing me that the 00000101 number shown in the "Version" box on the Minimax remote software relates to the "built of the internal controller, which operates your machine", not the current OS version as I mistakenly thought it did.

I have been told that if I got a success message after updating, that my machine will now be using the OS 1.04 software. Thanks all!