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Re: Hello from a newbie!

2008-07-01 by fjcanton2000

Also you can try reset the Matrix.

Hold the enter button while turning the Matrix ON.





--- In oberheim@yahoogroups.com, "Tim Curtis" <sexsymbol@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Francesco - 
> 
>  
> 
> Sounds like one of the voice chips is bad.
> 
>  
> 
> Try this - play the notes up the keyboard from one end to the other 
one at a
> time and see if the bad note repeats itself every 6th note.
> 
>  
> 
> -T
> 
>  
> 
>   _____  
> 
> From: oberheim@yahoogroups.com [mailto:oberheim@yahoogroups.com] On 
Behalf
> Of F.Manduca
> Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 11:54 AM
> To: oberheim@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [oberheim] Hello from a newbie!
> 
>  
> 
> 
> Hi, everybody,
> 
>  
> 
> I am a new user of this group, writing from Italy. I wish somebody 
could
> help me, please: I have always been loving the Matrix1000, wishing 
to
> purchase one. I think I find out one in my hometown, but, after a 
careful
> test, in which the 99% of the functionality was ok,and the sounds 
and the
> filters was magical, I luckily noticed in the end, that a random 
note played
> less "fat" or having a strange behaviour, while the rest played
> marvellously. More strange, if I tried to play again the 
same "bad"note,
> after playing another "good" one, it sounded right, while another 
note that
> had sounded correctly before,now,running my finger on the keyboard, 
it
> sounds strange!!! I tried to test all the oscillators behaviour, 
playing a
> single"good sounding note" at least 8 times, and everything sounded 
ok! So I
> am puzzled between a bios or another chip failure, or simply ,and 
more
> wished option, a low battery,since I am almost sure that it has 
never been
> changed during all the years it was in the music shop. Anyway, the 
display
> was on and shiny and the buttons on the panel did their work 
flying, when I
> pushed them during the test....Could I trust a machine like this? 
Maybe
> somebody noticed the same "trouble" on his Matrix1000, and maybe 
knows how
> to fix it.....Please, help!!
> 
> I hope I could have explained clearly myself.
> 
> Many, many thanks for answering me,
> 
>  
> 
> Francesco.
> 
>  
> 
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