Elektron Musical Instruments

--- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, Joe <jmelnyk@c...> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 02:28:10AM -0000, Michael wrote:
> >    My monomachine recently decided that it likes to freeze at 
random moments,
> >    and it
> >    sometimes freezes along with the screen going almost white. 
Also, certain
> >    presses on the
> >    bank buttons will make the screen go lighter as well. 
Sometimes when it
> >    freezes, a loud
> >    high frequency feedback is fed out of the main outs.
> 
> have you tried a factory reset or memory clear?


Tried both, no dice on either. I've also switched which power outlet 
I'm using it on, as I saw there were issues with grounding? It's 
behaving a little better, but still crashes. The screen lightening 
isn't happening so much though.
> 
> >    I've tried it at multiple tempos
> >    in logic to see if
> >    receiving it faster or slower makes a difference - it doesnt.
> 
> try it again with sysex librarian but try setting your "delay 
between
> messages" to be progressively higher and higher numbers.  hopefully
> it will eventually take.  also if you have another MIDI interface,
> try it as well.  sounds stupid, right?  but I can't upload Sysex
> files to my MD using my $750 MOTU 828, yet my $40 Midiman Uno
> works just perfectly!  so it's worth a shot, at least!  :-)
> 


The updates I tried was with a midiman 4x4, I have an 828 too, 
haven't tried it on that yet :D

I'll have to check out the options i have in the sysex app - I 
successfully dumped and reloaded my entire library last night, and 
did a full system restore, but stopped screwing around for the night 
shortly after. Tonight I'll give it a go and see if I can get it to 
take the OS upgrade (might fix some of the crashes - it seemed to not 
like being synched to the MD, the 1.04 readme says the upgrade fixes 
a crash when too much midi is received)

Thanks for the tips :D I hope I can get it back to 100%, as I'm 
looking to use it live in the next few months, and I want to trust it!

Michael