Elektron Musical Instruments

I second Joe's advice - 
sending a MIDI Program Change message higher than 99 can 
cause spazzing :)
But more likely is a power supply problem.
Mine went bad within 6 months, and Elektron sent me a new one.
If possible, trouble-shoot it yourself using another one of the 
correct polarity and voltage.

If you SID Station has got into this spazzed state, 
you will probably have to do a System Reset on it 
(clearing all the memory) first before you can do anything else.
(You can then load all your sounds back in via SysEx, 
from all those backups you carefully saved ;-)

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Message 5 
    From: "Joseph Melnyk" jmelnyk@...
    Date: Tue May 16, 2006 0:25pm(PDT) 
Subject: Re: Crashing Sidsation

steven,
this happened to my first sidstation.  the power connection was bad  
or weak
or something.  just moving it slightly would reset the machine and lose
all the memory in it.  i also did that once by sending it a control  
change
message higher than 99 (that gave me weird characters on the screen
and corrupted the memory).

i'd say talk to elektron about it.  it may need to be repaired.

joe

On May 16, 2006, at 2:25 PM, S. Steven Struble wrote:

> I've had a sidstation for the past 7 years, and suddenly it has  
> developed a
> new little quirk.  It's constantly reseting itself.  It doesn't  
> appear to
> be losing power, but it'll go back to boot-up mode and start all over.
> Either that, or it will just lock up with random characters on the  
> screen.
> Does anyone have any ideas what could be causing this?
>
> Sh.
> http://www.cartoonmilitia.com