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Howdy, I'm getting my mk1 ready to sell and yesterday I decided I needed to try it with
new batteries (since the power adapter input has always been broken since I got it). well,
today i got the new batteries but when I turned it on - although there is a very solid power
- the patches are all wiped. it had been sitting without batteries overnight.

it is a mk1, so apparently I can't send sysex to it which is not very useful is it.. I get
basically no sound except patches 18, 28, 38 etc all play a variation of the same wavering
tone at an octave up each notch.

and looking at the settings for the patches that will actually make a sound, they have
bogus information in them.,. like parameter 2 (waveform) set to 3, etc..

is there any way to init the whole patch bank? any ideas on how to get this in some sort of
sellable condition? i guess i should have just left the old batteries in it, as it was full of
good patches yesterday :(

chris