[HELP] Tsunami Wav Trigger, just got it and no sign of life

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:smiley: I just receive my second Tsunami wav (32 voice version) board from digi keys.

Like as first one, there is no sign of life. :shock:

Stat led is not blink at all. No blue, no 3 green blinks. With or without sd card (FAT32, 32gb, 32 kb of allocation)

Just read thread about behavior of stat led on this board. Nothing make sense.

I tried apply USB power, and VIN/GND supply.

I guess I will apply for my money back. Unless, any advice?

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Hmmm…what voltage/amperage is the VIN power? Have you tried swapping USB cables?

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Thank you for replay.

As describe on the board I apply 5-10V. Exact this rage. It take about 0,12 A, then after some time drops to 0,07. It should be around 0.2A when do nothing and a little more when playing sound

I also tried with 2 different USB cables C.

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The most basic way to see you your Tsunami is functioning at all is to see if the bootloader will run. Remove any microSD card and plug a 5V USB charger into the USB connector. Press and HOLD the “User” button and then press and release the “Reset” button (keep the “User” button pressed until after you release the “Reset” button.) In a few seconds, the Blue LED should blink slowly. This is the bootloader complaining that there’s no microSD card. If this doesn’t work, then your Tsunami is either defective or has no bootloader.

If this does work, then you can try re-flashing the firmware, although it’s highly unlikely that firmware got corrupted. But inserting a microSD card with the firmware hex file and restarting the bootloader should provide more info about what’s wrong.

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Ok, Robert, thanks for reply, and for the product

Wow, It did something! There some blinks.

Ok. Current situation:

As You predicted: no card sd and user button + reset = blue blink slowly

Now I Insert SD card. One long blink RED and two short blink also RED.

Now I got something. From manual:

No firmware hex file found, or incorrect file contents: One long red, two short reds, repeats

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Ok, now it’s working.

Here is my steps.

1.There is no sing of life, no blinking at any color.

2.Don’t panic.

  1. Remove Sd card, press and hold user button. Press short reset (keep user button, when you pressing reset)

4.There is life inside it (blue light blinking around 1s)

5.Download HEX file from here:

https://www.robertsonics.com/downloads/

6.Copy hex file on sd and change name for “tsunamix.hex”

  1. Insert SD card to board. Press and HOLD user button, then short reset button (don’t release user button)

  2. Again wait for releasing with HOLD button until there will be blue light blinking

9.Blining Blue = relese HOLD button.

  1. Insert on your sd 16 mono or stereo wav files (stereo if you load stereo hex file)

  2. Instert loaded sd card I enjoy green blinks from STAT LED.

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Thanks for helping with my Tsunami wav trigger.

I read all manual for this board.

There is loop option for MIDI use.

And indeed track are looping.

But not how I wish it work.

I have loops inside wav file make by “endless Wav” software.

It writes info into wav file about when stop and start loop.

For example I want to make endless sound of pipe organ.

Not playing over from start to the end.

But from start and then go to loop and stay in loop region.

Can it be done?

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Tsunami only supports seamless looping over the length of the file. In other words, the loop start is the first sample frame in the file, and the loop end is the last sample frame in the file.

What I often tell people is that since you can use microSD cards up to 32GB in size, do your looping in a wave editor and make the file the longest that you would ever hold a note.

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Next gen of Tsunami trigger should have support for looping in given region.

It would be easy to make sound module for eg orga

Also a bigger polyphonic number