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9/26/2018
Firmware Updates
The device contains multiple microcontrollers whose rmwares might be updated in the
future. Flashing rmware images can be done via MIDI, so the only hardware required is a
computer, a MIDI adapter and a MIDI cable.
Determine Firmware Version
During startup, the rmware version is displayed on the
Each rmware release has an ID that is displayed on the LEDs in binary format. For
example ID 0 would be indicated by all LEDs off, ID 1 by only
and
and so on.
A
B
The rmware updates are packed into multiple SysEx messages, which are unpacked by the
device bootloader and written to the internal ash memory.
To upload a new rmware, you rst need to boot the device into Bootloader mode.
Enter Bootloader Mode
To boot into Bootloader mode, hold down
an animation on the
device is ready to receive SysEx messages.
As the bootloader needs some time to process the SysEx messages, they may not be sent too
fast by the computer. To ensure this, we placed the SysEx messages at certain positions in a
regular MIDI le. All you have to do is send
connected to.
Unfortunately there are hardly any
one ourselves. It can be downloaded for Linux, MacOS and Windows here.
https://bastl-instruments.github.io/thyme/manual.html#/Introduction
LEDs indicating that you are now in bootloader mode and the
1-8
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applications that do this fairly simple job so we wrote
Thyme Manual
PATTERN
on, ID 2 by only
A
while powering up the device. You will see
TAP
that MIDI le through the port Thyme is
LEDs.
, ID 3 by
B
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