[Digital_Hell] Drumstation V1 probs..

[Martin Selway]

There is a Novation help forum on their homepage:    http://www.nova-uk.com/
There are solutions for the mentioned problems and other bugs.

regards,

MARTIN
mase at post5.tele.dk
http://home5.inet.tele.dk/mase

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From: cyborg0 at globaleyes.net <cyborg0 at globaleyes.net>
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Date: lørdag, juli 04, 1998 03:45
Subject: [Digital_Hell] Drumstation V1 probs..


>If you dont have a drumstation, please delete..
>
>To all who own V1 and other troubled Drumstations..
>
>I have had my drumstation turn-itself off, have noise on the outputs,
>erratic functioning, crash, reset etc.. all at the most inappropriate
>times while doing shows.
>
>I have found the source of the prob..
>
>for some reason the output of the PS for the drumstation is NOT quite 9v
>DC...
>So, i replaced it with a PS for a sega genesis that can be bought at any
>radio shack. Not only does the Radio Shack PS have about double the
>current, but, it has a fairly stiff voltage compared to the
>Drumstation...
>Now, the only thing you have to do is change the polarity of the Radio
>Shack PS to the inner barrel being +.. It comes as inner barrel -. The
>wires from the PS need to be switched around..
>The PS im using is 9v 1200ma and cost 16 dollars @ radio shack catalog #
>273-1612a.
>
>It has cured everything on my drumstation, including:
>flickering led readout
>crashes
>intermittent shutoff
>lock-ups
>noisy outputs
>no controller output
>front panel button lockup
>volume fluctuation (ie when main on DS was completely turned down, if
>there was midi info, it would turn up the mains by itself, then turn off
>again)
>
>I have been using it for a few days without problem, and i would suggest
>that if you are about to throw your drumstation out the window like i
>was, please give this a try.
>rob