OBERHEIM SYNTH

Also, pulled from Gearslutz. Sounds odd, but if you're at the end of "stuff
to try" it might be worth the effort.

 

Larry Church, an ex-OB tech, told me to reset the RAM before doing anything,
because most problems on the OBs can be fixed by resetting the RAM. This is
super easy to do, and could save you a lot of time.

Gently remove your RAM chips from the main board, and push the pins through
a few layers of tin foil. This causes them to short out, and completely
discharge any corrupted data. The problem with the OBs is that the onboard
computers were a little too complex for their own good, and corrupted data
gets stored in the RAM quite easily.

This will erase all presets, of course.

He also told me that he's brought back to life dead voice chips by doing
this.

 

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From: oberheim@yahoogroups.com [mailto:oberheim@yahoogroups.com] 
Sent: Monday, August 24, 2015 10:23 PM
To: oberheim@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [oberheim] Re: Autotune on OBXa suddenly shutting down all voices

 



So I finally figured out the problem with this machine. I was on the phone
with Bruce Forat about my Linn 9000 and he suggested disabling the midi kit
and taking the machine back to stock. I did so an autotune works fine now. 

 

Unfortunately my memory seems to not be working anymore on the OBXa though.
I can only use manual mode. Anything I save to memory doesn't work. Even
loading the presets via tape backup leaves memory not working correctly. It
seems like some things change with the changing of patches i.e. Saw to Pulse
etc. but the sound that comes out is just a slow attack rumble/whine of
dischord. 

 

So any ideas there? And I'd REALLY love to keep this MIDI kit in. I emailed
Tony at Encore MIDI but as per usual I get no response. So any ideas there
are welcome too. 

 

Sincerely,

Rich Clarke