Korg DW8000, Mono/Poly, MS-20...

Last night, i powered up my DW (which has the DW Turbo installed). and it displayed "8 0 0 8" which is normal... and then it loaded a patch with some parameters made up of symbols instead of numbers. and it would not play any of the sounds except 3 or so, which were completely absurd sounding and certainly not what i had saved in its memory. the were just noise, or pitch that slid when you pressed a key...

is this my first dead battery?

-robert. (www.divinemasquerade.com)

(my livelihood depends on the functionality of this synth...)

I have not experienced a dead battery in the DW-8000 yet myself but I
have heard of one and it sounded a lot like these symptoms.

--- In DW8000@y..., valekvanaden@a... wrote:
> Last night, i powered up my DW (which has the DW Turbo installed).
and it
> displayed "8 0 0 8" which is normal... and then it loaded a patch
with some
> parameters made up of symbols instead of numbers. and it would not
play any
> of the sounds except 3 or so, which were completely absurd sounding
and
> certainly not what i had saved in its memory. the were just noise,
or pitch
> that slid when you pressed a key...
>
> is this my first dead battery?
>
> -robert. (www.divinemasquerade.com)
>
> (my livelihood depends on the functionality of this synth...)