[sdiy] Jupiter 6 ...dragging parameters around?

[Doug Terrebonne]

Yes make sure the battery is good and dump a set of known good patches/presets into it. The JP-6 can get very confused and even lock up if there is any invalid/corrupt patch data. Of course Europa solves this problem too. :)

Doug
--- On Sun, 1/4/09, Bob Weigel <sounddoctorin at imt.net> wrote:

> From: Bob Weigel <sounddoctorin at imt.net>
> Subject: [sdiy] Jupiter 6 ...dragging parameters around?
> To: "synthdiy" <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
> Date: Sunday, January 4, 2009, 1:44 AM
> This thing is acting really strange.  Sometimes I edit and
> save...it 
> seems fine until I go edit something else..then I come back
> to the 
> previous patch sometimes and it has aspects of the previous
> sound like 
> some ring mod built into it!  I have to reboot the machine
> to get rid of 
> the problem and patches return to where they were. I saw
> the lights bump 
> off and on too a few times for no reason.  Anybody seen
> anything like 
> that?  I'm not familiar enough with the unit yet. 
> Problems seem to 
> happen when I go into the preset light being on especially.
> And I think 
> I initially wrote to a preset and it's..gone too. hmm.
> 
> Battery is 3.3V..ok.  But this thing was full of corrupt
> data so I'm 
> wondering if just loading patches will clear up things. 
> I've seen 
> strange things with the sci multi-trak in the past where if
> there isn't 
> a good check sum it just locks things up and you can't
> do a thing with 
> it unless.the battery is out :-).  Strange.  But anyway if
> this triggers 
> anything in anyone's memory I'd appreciate a heads
> up. -Bob
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