Micro Express blues!

[trickysr]

I bought a Micro Express years ago and now I decided to use it. All I want to do is send sysex messages to different keyboards. I was up till 4am trying to figure it out but I cannot get it to work. The memory protects are off on the keyboard and when I send a sysex I see the lights go solid on the ME, but nothing is being sent. I think I got it set up wrong somehow. Im normally good at this. How can I set up the Micro Express to assign a MIDI channel per keyboard so I can send different sysex messages to different keyboards? I know I have to route MIDI channels to different boards but I just do not get it

[mikehalloran]

I know this is all basic stuff but that's where to start.

The unit will have some basic functionality just plugged in but, to do everything, it needs the current drivers. I like searchable .pdf files when troubleshooting—the manual is also found here.
http://motu.com/techsupport/manuals

There were three versions of the micro express but only the third (release in 2010) has updatable firmware. Here's where you check for that.
http://motu.com/techsupport/technotes/firmwarechangelog

and additional instructions
http://motu.com/techsupport/technotes/firmware