Elektron Musical Instruments

--- In elektron-users@y..., "anthony j. resta" <bopnique@c...> wrote:
> i recently (yesterday ) had my sid die on me.  It is receiving midi on the
> proper channel the light shows midi, but just noise comes out.
> i tried erasing the memory and reloading several different full patch
> configurations and the led says the programmes are there but still  no
> sound,
> i have changed every  possible cable etc....it's like the outputs are
> toasted or something.  any help, or anyone else having been through this i 
> would be 
> grateful for any information  regarding this.
> 
>  i am also sending this to the
> support email.  
> 
>  i am running  1.10 R33  2000  O.S.
> 
> thankyou
> 
> anthony j.

hello anthony,


	I had similar symptoms when i blem my sid chip after i overloaded 
the input with a heavy dose of feedback(now i'm very wary of routing 
anything to the sid, specially through my patchbay).  I could only hear 
the sid's characteristic noise which seemed to be slightly affected by 
playing different notes, the midi light functioned as it was supposed 
to as well as the os worked fine.  I found myself a junky c64 and 
swapped out a sid chip of the 6581 variety, and everything was back to 
norml. I emailed elektron about this and they told me what i had 
suspected, and recomended that i send it to them to get fixed, they do 
not suggest gutting neat old computers like that (though most the pawn 
shops i go to tell me their old computer go straight to the chop shop).  
I would have had it not been such a hassle, or if anything other than 
just replacing the sid chip was in order. Consequently in the process i 
fixed up the junky old c64 i got, still looking for a power supply and 
disk drive though.

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christian