All about the Roland Jupiter-series

Guess there's not a lot of MKS-80 people here  :-p.

From what I've been reading,  I've found that this is how the 2
function with eath other.  I am a bit disappointed as live performance
is somewhat hindered by this, but I will make do.


--- In Roland_Jupiters@yahoogroups.com, Robert Krueger <rkr1@t...> wrote:
> I just got my MKS-80 and programmer today.  Needless to say I 
> immediately started playing with it and I think I've found some 
> problems.  I notice that when using the programmer,  the edits aren't 
> smooth.  If I sweep, say the filter freq or LFO rate,  I get very 
> noticable stepping.  I can see the values jumping around as I move ANY 
> knob or slider.  I can start at 0 and slide up about 1/4 of the length 
> before it will finally jump to about 17 or so,  etc etc...
> 
> The cable the person sent to me seems to be makeshift. It's a
radioshack 
>       cat5 cable with 6 pin connectors on the ends, wrapped with 
> electrical tape.  Since I never owned one, I dunno if this is the norm 
> or not.
> 
> So,  is this the normal function of the programmer, or is it possible I 
> have a bad cable,  or maybe even a bad MKS-80??
> 
> Is there somewhere I can get a working cable if that is the issue? 
> Please help... thanks.
> 
> Robert