[A6] Ribbon Tracking

[Chris Pickett]

David Evans wrote:

>On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 07:40:29PM -0400, Chris Pickett wrote:
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>>I upgraded my OS to 1.40.12, and the ribbon problems went away! :)  
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>  Good to hear.  My A6 came with 1.30.83 but I don't recall what it was like
>very well.  The summer of 2001 brought a fair number of updates as I recall.
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>>At the very left, the ribbon is not activated.  About 1 cm in, the 
>>ribbon light comes on.  Is this normal?
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>  Mine is like that, yes.  I think that it's a feature, since it provices a
>zero point that you can hit with your finger.  Thus when you release your
>finger the sound doesn't suddenly change.
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Yes, it makes sense now.  There's actually no difference between the 
very left of the "lit" region and the "unlit" part.

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>>Furthermore, if I press Hold and then activate the ribbon, I can't get 
>>it to go to the off position on the very left.  Same thing for you?
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>  I'm not sure what you mean by that; if HOLD is on then the ribbon light
>will stay on once you press the ribbon, even if you move over to the "zero
>space."  Notice, though, that the modulation output of the ribbon is indeed
>zero.
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Yeah, I understand now.

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>>Oh ... the hold lights come on simultaneously now, whereas I think they 
>>didn't before.
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>  Yeah, I recall something changing with the behaviour of the hold lights
>some time between 1.30.83 and 1.40.02 but I can't remember what at the
>moment.
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I'm having problems loading the Factory preset user oatch bank.  The 
Sysex dump completes successfully, and it seems like all of the programs 
are there.  However, I don't know how to get out of the menu where the 
store button is flashing ... so I just turn off the A6.

When I turn it back on, selecting any user patch >= 100 causes the OS to 
hang.  Any suggestions?