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Subject: Re: [Simmons Drums] Please Help with Portakit

From: Eduardo Ojeda <eojeda1375@...>
Date: 2010-02-25

No, the problem was the lack of having "Delete All". After I did, it went back to normal.

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From: Patrice Jacquot <Jacquot.Patrice@...>
Subject: Re: [Simmons Drums] Please Help with Portakit
To: Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, February 23, 2010, 9:27 AM

So it was well the battery  not charging enough ... !?




Le 22 févr. 10 à 06:16, Eduardo Ojeda a écrit :

> Well thanks for all your help; my Portakit is back, alive and 
> kicking...... The CLEAR ALL function restored it to close to 
> "factory settings" and now is working fine.
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> Made in 1988, 22 years old and it is performing like "brand new".
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> Thanks again,
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> E
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> --- On Thu, 2/11/10, superwolle70 <superwolle70@...> wrote:
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> From: superwolle70 <superwolle70@...>
> Subject: Re: [Simmons Drums] Please Help with Portakit
> To: Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Thursday, February 11, 2010, 7:29 AM
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> Page 84 in the manual says: "CLEAR is a utility function which 
> allows any kit, song or sequence to be initialised with it's default 
> settings". The "default settings" are explained on page 99
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> The question is: Does the Portakit still know what "default 
> settings" are after a battery change?
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> I don't know if there is something like a global factory reset. The 
> common way would be to import a SysEx backup if you have one (what I 
> doubt...). Probably some kind Portakit owner supplies you with a 
> SysEx dump if the CLEAR function does not provide the desired result?
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> --- In Simmons_Drums@ yahoogroups. com, Patrice Jacquot 
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> > there might be a sort of triggering gate time to set or something
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> > > Does anybody know a procedure to reset a Portakit to factory 
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> > > After a battery replacement, I am having problems triggering notes
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> > > from external pads. If I try to play a drum roll, I can only 
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> > > one (1) note every 2 seconds approx.
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> > > Internal pads are working fine, drum rolls trigger all notes. I
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> > > guess resetting it to factory, might solve the problem.
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> > > Help please,
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