Elektron Musical Instruments

On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 09:57:32PM -0700, Jason Vernon Starnes wrote:

> Now all I get is noise, synced to anything flashing on the screen, and
> making a nice zippery noise when I turn a knob.
[snip]
> I was running sound thru the filter at the time, and I've heard
> stories of people frying their chips with excessive volume, but this
> was simply a loop through a delay, then into the sid.  Anyone out
> there know what the symptoms are of having overloaded the input?

this happened to me...

> I seem to have heard these noises before during a previous crash, but
> I'm not sure.  Would reloading the OS be the next step?

I would try that, but there's a good chance your 6581 is toast.  I ended
up having to swap mine out.

the sidstation doesn't appear to have any sort of transorbs or other
static protection devices on the inputs (or outputs) and thus is pretty
sensitive to static and line overloads.

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  Aaron J. Grier | "Not your ordinary poofy goof." | agrier@...