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Re: [PolySix] Selecting Hold Mode causes the selected note to drop by a semitone when a key is released

2017-04-21 by Florian Anwander

For sure it is not a known issue.

I'd ask over at the kiwitechnics list in yahoo.

Florian


On 21.04.17 02:31 , t_tangent2003@yahoo.co.uk [PolySix] wrote:
>
> Hi all, my first post here. I have recently been trying to fix my 
> Polysix, and I replaced the battery damaged cpu board with the Kiwisix 
> cpu board and power supply board upgrade.
>
> So far all seems to have gone well, and almost everything I have 
> tested so far seems to be working as it should. However I have noticed 
> that when I press a note on the keyboard and then select the Hold mode 
> button, when I then take my finger off the selected note on the 
> keyboard I was holding, the note drops by approx 1 semitone. This only 
> seems to happen when I select Hold mode. If I just select a key on the 
> keyboard and then release it, the Polysix will act as expected and 
> either stop playing that note, or if EG is selected and there is a 
> long release then it will continue playing the same note.
>
> Is this a known issue on the Polysix, or does this mean a related ICs 
> needs replacing. Any help would be much appreciated, so thanks in 
> advance, and if you need  further info then please let me know.
>
> Cheers
>
> Tim
>

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