FW: [AH] Someone needs YOUR help - JP6 trouble
2001-10-22 by Verschut, Ricardo
-----Original Message----- From: Synthusiast [mailto:synthusiast@...] Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 2:07 PM To: Verschut, Ricardo Subject: Re: [AH] Someone needs YOUR help - JP6 trouble Hi Ricardo, It sounds like a problem with loose connectors or chips inside the machine. Reseating the connectors and a bit of pushing on the chips (be careful with static electricity!) will probably fix the machine as it did with mine. Cheers, Martijn ----- Original Message -----
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From: "Verschut, Ricardo" <Ricardo.Verschut@...> To: "AH" <analogue@...> Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 10:27 AM Subject: [AH] Someone needs YOUR help - JP6 trouble > Err, does anybody know how to solve this? > > Subject: Jupiter 6 Problems > From: fs1r@... > > I need some help. For a while now my jp6 has had an intermittant > problem where in poly or unison mode every 6th voice would crackle and > change volume at random. After about 20 minutes it would usually fix > itself and be perfectly alright. > > Well today I turned it on for the first time in 2 weeks and almost the > entire thing is frozen with no sound. The Bender board seems to be > fine with the rate light changing appropriately, and same with the arp > rate light, but everything else is locked solid. No buttons work, > there's no sound, the main LFO rate light is on but not blinking and > not changing speed like the others, and it just seems as if the entire > thing is frozen. I turned it on again a little while ago and it was > back to normal and working fine, although the main LFO was lit > constantly, so I turned it off and then it froze again. > > Does anyone have any ideas, or can anyone with the service manual tell > me if there's a procedure to get it into some kind of test mode? > > Thanks in advance. >