![]() ![]() Alternatively, an old laptop with a PCMCIA card reader should work, or with a TC Electronic M5000 (not the M5000X) and a 3.5″ floppy drive. Unfortunately, PCMCIA cards are no longer common as they once were, and finding a drive proved to be both difficult, and expensive ($350 on eBay), but it works. The solution I’ve found for copying the firmware to a PCMCIA card with a CSM OmniDrive USB2 Professional PCMCIA card reader. This means that the firmware must be copied as raw data to the device using software capable of doing so. TC Electronic devices interact with the PCMCIA card as a raw storage device, and do not utilize a filesystem such as FAT. ![]() ![]() Although settings can also be stored and recalled via MIDI, the firmware can only be updated via PCMCIA. According to the manual, the DBMax supports Type 1 PCMCIA cards with a minimum of 64KB SRAM and a maximum of 2 MB. The DBMax has a built-in PCMCIA card reader for storing settings, and which can be used to upgrade the firmware. The firmware link no longer seems to work, so I’ve uploaded the dbmv290.zip firmware to this site. The instructions only describe using a M5000, which I don’t have, so I needed another solution. The latest firmware (v2.90) along with installation instructions are available from the tc electronic Music Tribe site. This post provides steps for updating TC Electronic DBMax firmware. ![]()
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