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Re: les machines son fria

2006-08-12 by tahvenaine2002

I guess you are having problems with the electricity or something (MD
reacts very easily to changing fluctations). I've got one of the early
MDs (nowadays upgraded to UW) and I haven't experienced a crash (maybe
about one in a year, but no data loses). Your problem lies somewhere
else. You could contact Elektron, they could provide some ideas.

--- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, "burliveli_hood" <nsady@...> wrote:
>
> I see there are competent users here.  I've had the MD for some
years now.
> With the misgivings about freezing and not duplicating the sounds of a 
> previous days use, I still like having it around.  I didn't lose the
faith when
> MD would have most buyers questioning it's readiness.  Like a good
consumer
> I let it be known there were difficulties.  Now I have a MnM with
the same issues.
> I believe a lot has been accepted as just another day with the
machines shutting
> down or losing info.  
> I would have liked more than a month to check out the machines.  If
you have any
> kind of life, I don't feel it's enough time to get past the initial
perceptions of being
> very programmable boxes.  People do not expect this from modules. 
Not the
> creative way to work the machines.  Not  the unreliable performance.
 With these 
> machines it isn't a matter of pairing a computer to a person who
can't get a calculator to 
> work.    Yet here's another machine, with similar inclinations to
mess up a session.
> Albeit a session that would not be possible without the machines.
> 
> Probably just a sour note. since I don't have audio record nor a
file manage plan
> just now.  I don't know that I should have to record to keep the
info viable.  Sure, many
> times that is the better course, or people wouldn't have samplers
for some uses.
> Just a creampuff blowing off steam.  Hope you didn't read all that!
 It is a strange
> love hate (mild dislike) type of relationship right now.
>

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