[A6] RE: Knobs not working right

[protokol]

> > I too have experienced this problem and have found no way to solve it
> > within the Global pages
> > infact i have just emailed Alesis to see if there are any comming OS
> > updates that will help solve
> > this as they havn't posted a new OS update on their site for over a
> > year.
> >
> > The issue did seem to arrise shortly after I started programming and
> > saving my own patches
> > starting from my own default setting which is basically a modified
> > version of the strandard default
> > only with a few more functions turned off, non of which I can believe
> > though am willing to except
> > have caused this to happen.
> >
>
> First of all, make sure that your A6 is not hooked up to anything besides
> power when you test it out.  If this seems to make the A6 run faster, then
> you have a problem with your GLOBAL settings.  I know that if you have
> GLOBAL->PANEL settings to receive and you're sending dense data, some
panel
> changes will make the A6 run very slow, which is understandable because of
> the volume of messages it's processing.
>
> If the A6 is still sluggish with nothing MIDI hooked up, you know you have
> an internal issue.  I would backup what you have via Sysex Dump or writing
> to a card, then do a factory reset to clear everything out.  My A6 has had
> some issues in which patches caused it to crash or run slowly (sometimes
> just hanging at the boot screen),  but these went away as soon as I did a
> full reset and reloaded the data.  By the way, these problems started
> occuring when I downloaded patches off the internet and sent them via
Sysex
> to the A6.  I don't have as many issues now that I load my Sysex dumps
with
> a little more trasmission delay between messages.
> There's also a way to start off the A6 in a mode that calibrates
everything,
> including you panel knobs and other controllers.  You can try running this
> if your knobs seem glitchy.
>
> I personally run the A6 for sometimes an entire day, especially if I'm
> trying to finish a project before a deadline.  At least in my case, there
> has been no problems because of this.
>
> -proto-
>