[A6] Buttons not working

[Jeff Laity]

There is probably a loose ribbon cable in the unit. Something similar 
happened to me when I got my A6, my ribbon controller (the one on the 
front panel) was intermittent. When I opened up the unit, I noticed that 
the connector wasn't seated all the way into the socket. Alesis uses 
inexpensive connectors that aren't locking, and sometimes put hot glue 
on them but not always. I'll bet you could reseat the connectors on the 
inside of the unit and that would fix the problem.

If you feel comfortable opening the unit up, I'll bet it's an easy fix. 
It took me about an hour. If not, you should call Alesis for repair. You 
could also try a soft reset, hold down soft button 4 on startup. But I 
notice that's one of the buttons that aren't working, how ironic. 
Holding down soft button 3 on startup is a hard rest which wipes out all 
of your programs, so you could try that as a last resort.

Hope this helps, -jl

On Saturday, June 15, 2002, at 11:32 PM, Leary, John wrote:

> Sorry to destroy the sanctity of the list, but I must report a problem.
>
> I just got my Andromeda Thursday night.  It's a beautiful beast, and I 
> may
> already be in love with it.  This makes my news all the more 
> distressing.
>
> Within a half hour of my turning it on, several of the front panel 
> buttons
> stopped working.  No matter how hard (or how lightly) I pressed, they 
> didn't
> respond.  It was late, so I shut it off.  Next morning they worked 
> again,
> but again only for a half hour.  What's more, they haven't worked since.
> I've tested them under diagnostic mode (power up with Soft Button 2 
> down)
> and they don't work there either.
>
> I'm wondering if this is a problem anybody has run into before.  I'm 
> hoping
> I'll be able to fix this with minimum fuss; I just got the keyboard in, 
> and
> I don't want to ship it out for repairs unless absolutely necessary!
>
> The 17 buttons that aren't working are:
> 	Program mode button
> 	Soft button 4
> 	Select 4/12
> 	Program Bank ->
> 	Program Group 30
> 	Program Group 120
> 	Program Number 5
> 	Osc 1: Mod 3
> 	Pre Filter Mix: Noise/External Mod
> 	External Inputs: Voice 15
> 	Filter 1: View
> 	Filter 2: Mod 1
> 	Post Filter Mix: Filter 2 Lowpass Mod
> 	Env 1: Trigger
> 	Env 2: Mod 2
> 	Env 3: Mod 2
> 	Voice Mix: Output, Aux/Main
>
> OS is 1.40.09, though I doubt that makes a difference.
>
> Thanks for any help you can offer!
> John
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