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I won't make any release, it's fully working on my WK6, but other WK keyboards have issues. As I've got only the WK6, I can't troubleshoot what's not working in order to fix it. Also it's too much time consuming, and just a few people are interested in this.
Edit 11 Feb 2021 :
Everything is ready but I'm still waiting for a final test from some users to know if it works good on other WK keyboards, not just only mine.
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Every styles and sound samples from the Gem Genesys are now converted for the WK 4,6 and 8. Gem SK's should work too but
I don't have any to test the compatibility.
I've spent nearly 3 months and several hours a day to make a software able to deal with the memory differences that
exist between the two Gem series. It was a hard work of guess and try. Day after day I could understand Gem's
developers logical, and everything made sense more and more.
The Genesys shares exactly the same hardware with the Wk's. Even if there were a 5 or 6 years difference between the two
series. Just the OS was updated to make the Genesys incompatible with the old series (commercial point of view I guess).
Genesys first edition has 40mb more sound samples than the WK's. The old Gem's can be updated up to 32mb of sample memory.
They already have a 16mb ROM where the samples are located.
To make it possible for the WK's to load every extra Genesys audio samples, I need to down sample them. They can be divided
by 4 without loosing too much audio quality (thanks to some 2020 software that didn't exist 20 years ago).
It's better of course to have 32mb of memory in your WK. You could load every Genesys samples. But even 2mb and you can
load a few styles at the same time. Some styles need more memory than others, it's a case by case.
I will update this description with a link very soon where you can download everything. I still need to fix some minor
glitches in the drum patches. I won't offer the full set for free as I worked too much to make it true. 30$ or 25 euros
should be a great price for such an amazing update. I will offer a few styles and sounds for you to try first.
