Elektron Musical Instruments

Le 6 sept. 08 à 21:05, j l a écrit :

> I have to confess- I *also* had a friend over a while back and I was
> using my MD connected to the mains w/out conditioning/filtration.  It
> crashed and in the process erased all of the pattern data; all of the
> instruments.

lucky you! :o) mine was locking, a real christmas tree… ^^

> I'm sure that part of the problem is the casing, but you would think
> that the power supply would do more cleanup than it does...  Maybe  
> not.

no, there's no clean up as the MD adapter sends AC to the MD instead  
of DC which would clean a little. The adapter is non standard (9v 2.5  
A AC if I remember well) but stand as a standard for a common  
development board. I've never understood why Elektron did not clean up  
its design to use the usual adapters. Theirs is of high quality but  
the powering design a a flaw unfortunately.

> I have since only used it (not for this reason tho!) w/ a furman
> power conditioner and have never experienced a problem since.

that's the (good) little studio solution I thought of, a good rack to  
own especially if you move around for live stuff.

> It would really be helpful if Elektron would research this a bit more
> in order to develop their power supply further.  For now, we have a
> solution, but that also means that 9/10 times you'll have to bring a
> power conditioner to a show.

yup :-/
Now it was their first product and everyone makes mistakes (on the  
designs I worked on, we also did mistakes), it's a non lethal one once  
you know.

Denis H]
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