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Re: [Doepfer_a100] A-160 broken ?

2008-04-05 by Silas Johansen

Hi Patrick,

Try removing the A-160/161 modules and see if there's a ribbon cable
connecting the A-160 module to the bus board. In addition there should
be a cable connecting the A-160 and 161. Also, make sure the polarity
is correct - that generally means that neither of these cables should
be twisted.

/Silas

On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 2:02 PM, wouterspatrick
<patrick.wouters4@telenet.be> wrote:
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> I'm completely new into modular synths ... until I bought a new
>  prebuild A-100 BS2 (thus with the A-190 midi module) a few days ago :-
>  )
>  Although it took some time to find my way around, I have been able to
>  construct some own patches with decent results.
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>  But now I wanted to use the A-160 in combination with the A-161 for
>  the first time.
>  For one reason or the other, I seem not to be able to get anything
>  out of these two modules.
>  So I'm starting to think that the A-160 module is broken or wrongly
>  connected inside the enclosure.
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>  When I plug in a LFO (square) into the trig-input of the A-160, are
>  the LEDS of that unit not supposed to start blinking at several
>  different rates, depending on the clock division ?
>  In my case nothing blinks, although the LFO is doing it's job
>  (checked that by plugging that LFO into the gate input of an ADSR).
>  When I connect one of the sub-divisions, for example /4 into the gate
>  of an ADSR, that gate is not triggered, so obviously nothing is
>  coming out of that /4 output (led also not blinking).
>  Is also the A-161 not supposed to start "running" through the 8 steps
>  (so leds blinking in sequence) when the A-160 is triggered ?
>  I also tried plugging the A-118 random out into the trig of the A-160
>  and also the gate-out of the A-190 midi module.
>  Nothing seems to be able to trigger that A-160.
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>  By the way, is it possible to try out the A-161 without the A-160 ?
>  As far as I understand, this is not possible since it needs it's
>  clock input from the A-160 ?
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>  Since I have nothing to compare with, I'm not sure what I should
>  expect. Maybe I'm doing something completely wrong, but after reading
>  the modules manual several times I have the impression that there is
>  definitely something wrong with that A-160 module.
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>  Can someone give me some advise on this ?
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