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SEQUENTIAL/DSI => Evolver => Poly Evolver Keyboard => Topic started by: Sacred Synthesis on April 08, 2016, 05:52:48 AM
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I have two PEK problems that I haven't seen anyone else mention before, and I'm wondering if they're known bugs.
1) After pressing an oscillator button to single it out, oscillator 1 is detuned one half-step up.
2) After first turning on the instrument and adjusting LFO 1 Amount, the amount jumps to 100.
Note that I have the PE, so there are no jumpy endless encoders issues.
These problems are only minor and intermittent, so I can easily live with them. But I was wondering if anyone else has them.
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1) After pressing an oscillator button to single it out, oscillator 1 is detuned one half-step up.
Is that problem something that can be seen on the parameters value or does it only change the pitch of the oscillator without changing the corresponding parameters value?
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That's a good question and I'll have to look out in the future to get an answer. Again, the problems are only intermittent, so I haven't pinned down the details. But I would expect that the "C" is shown to be a "C#". In other words, the jump is always the same - one half-step up. It's nothing like the old jumpy encodes problem. I've experienced plenty of that.
Have you heard of either of these bugs or problems before? I would presume it's software, rather than hardware, because the instrument otherwise works perfectly, and I never have other problems with those parameters.
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Yeah it sounds like a software problem though pressing one control could affect another control if the state of the hardware is "a bit special".
May I suggest that you write DSI a support message asking if they can confirm these bugs? Hopefully you are using the latest OS versions on your PEK. Which is another important point: include the OS versions you are using in your DSI support request.
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Of course, but I wanted to check here first.
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Which is exactly the right thing to do. If only I had a PEK. Maybe some of the other PEK owners will respond here soon? In any case it would be cool to hear what DSI have to say on this. Please quote them!
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I'll pass on any information. Of course, this new forum is the post-Evolver forum, so there's very little Evolver discussion here, and perhaps, few Evolver owners.
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I have never noticed either of those two problems.
Have you always had them or have they appeared recently?
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I've had the problems for at least a year, but I'm not certain if the instrument had them when I first bought it. My first interest is to find out if anyone else has them.
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I have not noticed this either, but if I had at some point I probably just attributed the behavior to my jumpy encoders. I replaced one encoder (shape knob) a few years ago, but a few still act up. PEK is really the only instrument I do this with...but I almost always use the soundtower editor when making patches, which of course bypasses the encoder issue.
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One of my PEKs has the problems, but the other doesn't. They're inconsistent and happen only here and there.
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Maybe try reinstalling the firmware, that might reset something somewhere.