Vintage Simmons Drums (UK) Users Group

Thanks for the tip Jesper. I had a PSU problem with my Novation Drumstation just as you describe. I'll check it out.

I do have a manual, but there's no mention of system resets or test routines. It's a complicated beast!

Fingers crossed!
Susie

--- In Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com, jesper <jesper@...> wrote:
>
> Susie skrev:
> > An update...
> > It looks like it is now saving data, as I can make changes, switch off, 
> > and those changes are there when I switch on again.
> > However, I'm still getting silence (with a lot of digital noise), even 
> > though it is definitely receiving data, as the channel leds light up as 
> > I play.
> 
> So, receiving is OK and editing too.
> 
> > I've dumped the cassette to digital file and tidied it up. It makes a 
> > better attempt to read it, but I still get ER after reading 9 patches.
> 
> With the description above I don't think this matters. Something is 
> rotten in the SDE.
> 
> > I discovered that if I hold the select button while switching on, I can 
> > get it to go into some sort of diagnostic mode where it chases through 
> > all the leds, but I haven't found a factory reset.
> 
> No manual?
> 
> > I still think the problems are due to it losing its memory, but I'm not 
> > sure about the ROM patches - if they were protected RAM and i've lost 
> > them, how do I get them back? The voice numbers on the ROM patches all 
> > appear to be set to 1, so may have been zeroed, but I'm still trying to 
> > figure out the user interface, so could be wrong on that one.
> 
> But if you can edit sounds the originals won't matter. But if something 
> is wrong in the selecting matrix/interface it won't matter if you load 
> new patches. But some skilful SDE user ought to have found their way 
> onto the list.
> 
> > Any ideas anyone? Not sure how many SDEs there are out there. DO we have 
> > any SDE experts?
> 
> Not me for sure. :) But a classic tip is to check the PSU with a volt 
> meter. The digital parts are always sensitive if the juice just drops 
> 10% or so...
> 
> -- 
> electronically yours, jesper
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