Tell me I'm not crazy - is there something wrong with my Prophet?

[benmeza]

...so I just snagged a Prophet 6 off of Reverb and it seems to be in good working order but I noticed something a little troubling - I can't write any patch changes - I hit WRITE, and I try to click a bank number to save to(0-4 - NOT 5-9) and the WRITE button remains blinking.  It just doesn't seem to want to register a save.  Am I missing something like a Global Auto Protect I'm suppose to turn off to save patches similar to how Nords are set up?  This seems like a really odd problem to have and I didn't see anything in the manual that I thought might explain this outside of the "you can't overwrite banks 5-9" part.  Anyone have any suggestions?  OS version 1.3.1 if it matters.

[benmeza]

...played around with it a bit more and here is what I'm seeing - I CAN write to patch 000-499 but I can't write to 500-999.  Is that right?  Seems to contradict what the manual says - I was thinking I could save to patches 000-004, 010-014, 020-024, etc, etc all the way up to 999 but it looks like I can write to a different range.  Did I just misread the manual? 

[Paul Dither]

...played around with it a bit more and here is what I'm seeing - I CAN write to patch 000-499 but I can't write to 500-999.  Is that right?  Seems to contradict what the manual says - I was thinking I could save to patches 000-004, 010-014, 020-024, etc, etc all the way up to 999 but it looks like I can write to a different range.  Did I just misread the manual?

That's exactly how everything should work. The first 5 banks (0-4) are user banks that can be overwritten, the second 5 banks (5-9) are factory banks that are permanent. To be clear: banks 0-4 means presets 000-499, while banks 5-9 means presets 500-999.

[benmeza]

...played around with it a bit more and here is what I'm seeing - I CAN write to patch 000-499 but I can't write to 500-999.  Is that right?  Seems to contradict what the manual says - I was thinking I could save to patches 000-004, 010-014, 020-024, etc, etc all the way up to 999 but it looks like I can write to a different range.  Did I just misread the manual?

That's exactly how everything should work. The first 5 banks (0-4) are user banks that can be overwritten, the second 5 banks (5-9) are factory banks that are permanent. To be clear: banks 0-4 means presets 000-499, while banks 5-9 means presets 500-999.

Yes, thank you - I figured it out - was thinking bank was generic and not the name of actual button for the 100s place - ha.  Came back here to delete my post and realized the forum was down.  So embarrassed - thanks for the help!  Carry on - dont mind me.