[A6] Ribbon Tracking

[Chris Pickett]

Mark R. Strijbos wrote:

>>  Mine doesn't do this.  However, it takes practice to quickly run your
>>finger along the ribbon quickly while maintaining constant contact.  Perhaps
>>your finger's contact is intermitent?
>>    
>>
>arf arf...
>
>mine's often (mis)behaving in a similar fashion. A quick but dirty 
>solution is to switch on the (Ribbon) Hold button so the transmitted 
>value doesn't suddenly drop to zero whenever the contact is a bit 
>flakey but remains at the last correctly read value. 
>
>also i have found that cleaning the strip from time to time also 
>helps. my guess is that it is constantly soaking up sweat, dust and 
>other gooey particles from my fingers. this may not even be visible 
>but stll affect play. well, that's my theory anyway... 
>

yeah, i'm pretty sure my contact isn't intermittent, i'm pressing quite 
firmly -- i don't think i could improve upon my ribbon technique, i've 
been trying for a couple of hours.  it's also worse at the very left.

when i press the hold button, it locks the current value of the ribbon, 
and subsequent touches to the ribbon don't affect the value.  is this 
the correct behaviour?  i was expecting to be able to change the ribbon 
value whilst the hold light is on.

i'll try cleaning the strip now.

also, why are there two hold buttons?

finally, when i press the "ribbon" button, it doesn't light up, but it 
takes me to the croutes section.  this is correct, right?

cheers,
chris