hey daniel and louis
thanks, it started working fine again just as mysteriously as it stopped? i don't understand it at all. when it was producing super-low volume i tried it with the battery out, several factory .wav reloads, headphone and mono out. was just about to open it again to start poking around the circuitry and it just.. came back to life. so i have no explanation. but it's working! i can save patches and it sounds great. the buttons work about 80% of the time, which is a big improvement over the 0-20% yesterday.
i'm a bit scared to do any more work on it, would love to get the sequencer running but i can wait and use external gear. hawk mod is on the list.. at the very least would like to do the filter / resonance and FM mods at some point.
cheers