[sdiy] My new ESQ-1

[Grant Richter]

I have kept several years of Transonic Hacker magazine.

Did the ESQ-1 OS end up getting hacked like the Mirage?

The DCO to analog VCF-VCA still sounds chunky in a mix.

On Jun 1, 2005, at 6:31 AM, Rainer Buchty wrote:

>> Yes, and mine is giving me a "Backup battery low" warning when I  
>> first
>> fire it up. I know I need to replace it (pretty sure a recommended  
>> part
>> type is listed on Rainer's site), though I wouldn't think that  
>> this is
>> causing the problem I'm seeing. Then again, stranger things have
>> happened.
>>
>
> With the ESQ1 all sort of weirdnesses can be caused by a low battery
> leading to successive destruction of the OS-RAM contents. During
> power-up, the ESQ1 checks for a magic cookie at a certain memory
> location. If that is found, no "formatting" of the OS-RAM takes place,
> including task-switch and parameter tables. With sufficiently  
> garbled-up
> tables, the machine will become quite unstable and show rather  
> eccentric
> behavior.
>
> So if you have a battery-low warning, firing up a factory reset isn't
> the worst idea to see if it cures a specific "illness"...
>
> Rainer
>