-----Original Message-----
From: Synthusiast [mailto:
synthusiast@...]
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 2:07 PM
To: Verschut, Ricardo
Subject: Re: [AH] Someone needs YOUR help - JP6 trouble
Hi Ricardo,
It sounds like a problem with loose connectors or chips inside the machine.
Reseating the connectors and a bit of pushing on the chips (be careful with
static electricity!) will probably fix the machine as it did with mine.
Cheers,
Martijn
----- Original Message -----
From: "Verschut, Ricardo" <Ricardo.Verschut@...>
To: "AH" <analogue@...>
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 10:27 AM
Subject: [AH] Someone needs YOUR help - JP6 trouble
> Err, does anybody know how to solve this?
>
> Subject: Jupiter 6 Problems
> From: fs1r@...
>
> I need some help. For a while now my jp6 has had an intermittant
> problem where in poly or unison mode every 6th voice would crackle and
> change volume at random. After about 20 minutes it would usually fix
> itself and be perfectly alright.
>
> Well today I turned it on for the first time in 2 weeks and almost the
> entire thing is frozen with no sound. The Bender board seems to be
> fine with the rate light changing appropriately, and same with the arp
> rate light, but everything else is locked solid. No buttons work,
> there's no sound, the main LFO rate light is on but not blinking and
> not changing speed like the others, and it just seems as if the entire
> thing is frozen. I turned it on again a little while ago and it was
> back to normal and working fine, although the main LFO was lit
> constantly, so I turned it off and then it froze again.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas, or can anyone with the service manual tell
> me if there's a procedure to get it into some kind of test mode?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>