D-50 problem

J.D.McEachin jdm at synthcom.com
Wed Apr 28 22:10:53 CEST 1999


At 07:42 AM 4/28/99 -0500, Tim Curtis wrote:
>Anyone on the list particularly familiar with the Roland D-50?  Mine has
>a problem and no one I've spoken with yet has any ideas.
>
>The synth is outputting some kind of weird, high pitched noise out of
>the stereo and headphone outputs.  This noise is present even when a key
>isn't depressed.  Oddly, when the next key is pressed the noise changes
>in pitch and intensity.  It seems cyclic.

Try turning the FX level down to 0, and see if the problem goes away or
not.  A flaky/bad DRAM (used by the Boss FX chip) can cause weird noise.

JDM




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