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Thanks all for your help. It seems to me though that on every patch 
that uses the ribbon it drops to the left edge once I touch anywhere 
on the ribbon. Perhaps you can test this for me. On the stock 
patch "Chick" 066, when I first bring it up and play it's sort of a 
bright analog brass lead sound. Once I touch the ribbon (anywhere on 
the ribbon) there is alomst no sound at all. Only a very muted pluck 
sound. My assumption here is that the ribbon controller is stuck in 
the left edge position because of a physical problem with the ribbon. 
Can someone try that patch and let me know what you get? If you get 
the normal sound rather than the muted one that should prove that 
there is something amiss with mine.

Thanks again for all your help,
Joe

PS I reset all programs to the original values as instructed in the 
manual.


--- In AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com, "RayMaxer \(Digital Illusions\)" 
<digil@d...> wrote:
> 
> Hi Bruce and Jimmy and Joe... and all others
> Well... as I figured out (and as far as I remember there is some 
notice in the manual about it) it works depending on assignation of 
RbX to Pitch Up in Ctrl Matrix this way :
> 
> Just assigning RbX to Cutoff with no other assign of RbX in the 
whole Matrix to anything else makes ribbon stay at the position where 
you pulled finger from it.
> 
> Assigning RbX to "Pitch Up" (with 0 amount) in another slot makes 
it return to default position, which (AFAIR and AFAIN) may be 
different (meaning center or the left edge of ribbon) on the 
destination to which RibbonX is routed.. 
> 
> This all works as it should for me practically always, but I think 
I had a situation not long time ago, when I couldn't figure out why 
it was working still one way when I thought that conditions were for 
another..
> This may be linked to : I am not sure how it works when there are 
several destinations (besides Pitch Up) selected .. does anything 
change or not.
> 
> Currently, I just checked the simple Cutoff and Pitch Up thingy on 
a Init patch to be sure about what I am writing.. 
> 
> Hope that helps a bit, but let me know if it doesn't work this way 
or anything else you'll find about it.
> 
> Ray.
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Bruce Wahler 
>   To: AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com 
>   Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 5:09 PM
>   Subject: Re: [AN1x] Ribbon stuck at lowest level
> 
> 
>   Hi Joe,
> 
>   >I'm new to the An1x and the list. I just picked up an An1x and 
it 
>   >seems that once I touch the ribbon controller, whatever value it 
is 
>   >assigned to drops down to its lowest value as if my finger was 
still 
>   >on the ribbon at its lowest point. I know it can be set to 
relase to 
>   >the last touched position but it goes to the lowest no matter 
where i 
>   >leave off. 
>   >is this something anyone else has experienced? Is the ribbon 
bad? 
>   >Does anyone know if it a new ribbon controller can be purchased 
and 
>   >replaced?
> 
>   Jimmy's right:  This is a bug/feature of the AN1x.  If you 
program the modulation matrix to use Ribbon X on all of your patches, 
you'll probably find that some of them latch at the last-touched 
point, while others drop to zero.  There's probably some method to 
this madness, but nobody on the list has figured it out yet.  Part of 
the problem seems to be that the setting changes over time -- I can 
go back to a patch that I could swear works one way, and it's working 
the other way!  I've given up on depending on the ribbon controller 
for long-term modulation tasks.
> 
>   If you find out what's going on, please post the information 
here.  I'm sure lots of owners would like to know what the secret is.
> 
>   Regards,
> 
>   -BW
> 
> 
> 
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