{"id":569,"date":"2026-10-29T18:09:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T18:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metajack.org\/blog\/?p=569"},"modified":"2026-10-29T18:09:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T18:09:47","slug":"preenfm2-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/metajack.org\/blog\/2026\/10\/29\/preenfm2-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"PreenFM2 notes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Update OS:<br><br>Plug USB into computer.<br>Hold down &#8220;Eng&#8221; button while turning on<br>On next screen, press &#8220;Eng&#8221; to turn on USB access<br>open the drive on your computer<br>go to pfm2 dir<br>drop the .bin firmware onto the disk<br>(optional &#8211; copy any existing .bin file to your computer to avoid confusion)<br>eject the disk<br>Press &#8220;Op&#8221; on device to exit disk access<br>Press &#8220;Op&#8221; again to select the .bin file<br>Press &#8220;Op&#8221; to scroll through the .bin files on disk (if you have only one .bin on disk then this is not needed)<br>Press &#8220;Inst&#8221; to start the flash<br>You may need to reset the midi channels, encoder types, etc. in the settings menu<br><br>If the encoders seem to not scroll smoothly after updating firmware, change your encoder type from 12 to 24 or vice versa. There is also a setting for the buttons, although I&#8217;ve not experienced what that is like, but be aware that different builds apparently had different button or encoder types, so you may need to adjust these settings after a firmware reboot. <br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update OS: Plug USB into computer.Hold down &#8220;Eng&#8221; button while turning onOn next screen, press &#8220;Eng&#8221; to turn on USB accessopen the drive on your computergo to pfm2 dirdrop the .bin firmware onto the disk(optional &#8211; copy any existing .bin file to your computer to avoid confusion)eject the diskPress &#8220;Op&#8221; on device to exit disk &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/metajack.org\/blog\/2026\/10\/29\/preenfm2-notes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;PreenFM2 notes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/metajack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/metajack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/metajack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metajack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metajack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/metajack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":570,"href":"http:\/\/metajack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions\/570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/metajack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metajack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metajack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}