Possible Bugs

[Sacred Synthesis]

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.

[dslsynth]

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?

[Sacred Synthesis]

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.

[dslsynth]

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.

[Sacred Synthesis]

Of course, but I wanted to check here first. 

[dslsynth]

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!

[Sacred Synthesis]

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.

[BobTheDog]

I have never noticed either of those two problems.

Have you always had them or have they appeared recently?

[Sacred Synthesis]

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. 

[Soundquest]

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.

[Sacred Synthesis]

One of my PEKs has the problems, but the other doesn't.  They're inconsistent and happen only here and there.

[BobTheDog]

Maybe try reinstalling the firmware, that might reset something somewhere.