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Warming up to tune?

2006-07-30 by Richard Kilpatrick

I've just listed my finished/working Polysix on eBay (I was given two  
to check/repair/rehome by a friend after her partner passed away) -  
I've done everything I can do with the information in the service  
guide, and only one thing bugs me now.

When I switch it on, and first play a tone, it is flat/out of tune.  
It comes up to tune as the synth 'warms up' - very quickly, say a  
couple of seconds at most.

Is this normal? There's no mention of this behaviour anywhere.  
Everything else works exactly as it should.

The Polysix is listed on eBay in the UK - if this behaviour is a  
problem, I will revise my listing. Both Polysixes did it, but one has  
now developed a fault with the programmer with only a few LEDs  
illuminating, patch storage and programming messed up, so it's harder  
to detect over all the other bugs ;)

To my mind, it's acceptable and normal behaviour for an analogue  
polysynth, but if there is a failed capacitor or component causing  
whatever generates a reference frequency (for example) to come up to  
speed, I'd like to be able to replace it if needed

  It is in tune when played, and doesn't go out of tune - my Akai  
AX73 has to have the autotune button pressed when first switched on!

Richard

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