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Ash  Wagers shared with us:
> So yeah...im feeling a bit homocidal right about now.....the other 
> day i installed reaktor just for fun to mess around with it-it's been 
> a while since i played with it last....i don't know if this has 
> anything to do with it or not....but....today i turn on my AN1x to 
> add some acompanyment to this insane drum track i've got going and 
> WHAMMO!  all kinds of jibberish....i turned it off and back on...BAM! 
> jibberish again.....i tried to change the patch and it freezes up and 
> the lights go haywire and everything in the LCD is lit up and it's 
> saying all kinds of crap in japanese... i had to restore all the 
> defaults to get it to do anything...argh, lost all my patches i didnt 
> have them stored cause i recently reformated my harddrive :-(...damn 
> it...anyone know what happened or had anything similar to it?  could 
> it be that reaktor did do something to it thru the MIDI cable?

I don't think that Reaktor goes nuclear, but yes, I've had something
similar. I didn't get the Japanese characters (never knew the little
bugger had it in it), but the AN1x became unusable and I had to reset
it to factory defaults.

As a matter of fact, I wrote about that a couple of months ago. So
you could have been warned...

Anyway, people, back those patches up, because the AN1x has a
serious bug that only pops up after some time or weird circumstances,
that can't possibly be repeated.

- Peter