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My first lockup!

2005-03-29 by dj_mkunoff

Man, I just love my XL-7. It opened a whole new world of control in my
LivePA setup. It has also added a bit of comfort knowing this thing is
rock solid for live performance - much more so than a computer.

Well, last night while lurking in the event edit menu, the unit froze
up and would not respond to any key presses. When I shut it down, and
almost immediately turned it on again, it did not power up. My heart
skipepd a beat, then I waited about 5 seconds and tried again, and the
unit came up fine.

I dont know if I...
1. found a hidden bug in the OS?
2. or maybe there was an electrical interuption?

In case one, I was navigating through the event edit menu (within
pattern edit) to access tick zero for a program change message, which
I know how to do correctly now (setting output channel to EXT) but the
first time I didn't know what I was doing, so I may have tripped over
some buggy key combo?

In case two, I did notice during this episode that the power cord was
being very tigthly pulled and the plug was ever so slightly loose in
it's slot on the Emu, hence the theory that maybe there was a power
anomaly of some sort.

Since then, absolutely no problems - and I've spent a good amount of
time navigating through the event edit menus.

Anyway, the fact that the Command Station locked up scares the hell
out of me. I sure as shit don't want that happening during a performance!

Any ideas greatly appreciated. ~Mark

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