[sdiy] Fwd: Prophet 600 tuning question

[Bob Weigel]

On 3/1/2012 12:38 PM, dan snazelle wrote:
> neat
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> are there any other secret key press modes??
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> thanks
>
> On Mar 1, 2012, at 2:26 PM, g m montalbano wrote:
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>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: g m montalbano<montalbanogm at gmail.com>
>> Date: Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 10:26 AM
>> Subject: Re: [sdiy] Prophet 600 tuning question
>> To: Tom Wiltshire<tom at electricdruid.net>
>>
>>
>> The pitch bend calibration is something that's stored in RAM on this
>> synth -- calibration can be lost when memory is corrupted, battery is
>> changed, etc.
>> The procedure for calibrating the pitch wheel is to press Record + 3,
>> then rotate the wheel up&  down.
>> If this DOESN'T work, then you have problems .... but it usually works.
>>
>> ~GMM
>>
>>      
> neat
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>
> are there any other secret key press modes??
>
> thanks
>
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>> On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 7:54 AM, Tom Wiltshire<tom at electricdruid.net>
>> wrote:
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>>> One other thought - might the pitch bender have gone wonky?
>>> If the pitch bend were applying a slight downwards bend, that'd give the
>>> effect you're seeing.
>>>
>>> T.
>>>
>>> On 26 Feb 2012, at 02:18, luther rochester wrote:
>>>
>>>        
>>>> When my 600 tunes up, all 6 voices are in tune with each other and
>>>> scaled fine over octaves. But all notes on the synth are a bit flat. I have
>>>> to keep the Master Tune knob at about +3 in order for it in tune to properly
>>>> to other instruments.
>>>>
>>>> I've read the scaling procedure and it seems relatively painless, but it
>>>> also doesn't seem like it would address this problem. Is there some other
>>>> kind of offset adjustment I can make so keeping the Master Tune at 0 will
>>>> mean the synth will be in tune?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> --
>>>> ./luther
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As always I try to keep such things in easy access on my page:

http://sounddoctorin.com/synthtec/sci/p600.htm



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