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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?

lemme know,
ash

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