[A6] A6 technical questions

[Tony J]

>analoguediehard at att.net wrote

>The knobs should just slide right off, easier than most vintage synths.  
>The
>smallest knobs may be tighter though.  Just slip some string under the knob 
>and
>pull up.  The PC boards underneath have plenty of support so don't worry 
>about
>cracking them while pulling on a knob.

Oh wow.  I literally tried pulling on the toughest knob to release on the 
board.  I tried another one, and it popped right off.  Cool!

>
>The A6 is an easy service job once you remove the 20+ screws to open it.  
>If you
>ever struggled with servicing a Memorymoog, the A6 is a walk in the park :)
>

I never serviced a MemoryMoog, but I can imagine.


>The A6 has three ways to store patches.  It has on-board RAM with battery 
>backup
>that will hold 128 patches and 128 mixes (splits/layers), and it has 
>additional
>flash RAM to hold 256 patches and 128 mixes.  The third way is the PC Card 
>slot
>on the back which accept Static RAM cards up to 2M, which can hold eight
>128-slot banks of patches or mixes.
>


Alright, that answered my question I believe.  Thanks!

-proto-

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