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Re: Korg Polysix peculiar memory problem

2006-10-04 by John Koumoutseas

When the battery leakes, it corroded the circuit lands under and around 
the battery.  I susbect it is part of the memory problm you are having 
now as i have worked on a number of these and some are fixable and some 
are give upable...g'luck  John--- In 
vintagesynthrepair@yahoogroups.com, "sputnik979" <sputnik979@...> wrote:
>
> Hi folks, you might remember me and my battery leakage issue.
> Well, we still haven't found the cause of the patches not being 
written 
> to memory. TC5514 seems to be fine.
> But we have new info; The patches that are already in memory can be 
> written to it - I mean you can replace the slots and the Polysix 
stores 
> the existing patches in new slots. But if you want to create, or 
> manipulate a patch on your own, so let's say you tweak some knob or 
> press "manual" - then it is impossible to store such patch. Any 
> suggestions? Two memories in a Polysix ? Some problem on the control 
> panel line ?
>

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