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Subject: Re: [chromapolaris] strange VCA envelope behaviour

From: james meagher <w.james.meagher@...>
Date: 2013-02-16

Thanks a lot Paul. That's kinda what I figured . . . but I'm so often wrong it's nice to have suspicions confirmed. 

I'll get googling on how to reprogram of EPROMs and if I can't figure it out myself I'll be back here for some more advice. 

Cheers,
James


On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 9:17 PM, Paul D. DeRocco <pderocco@...> wrote:
 

> From: james meagher


>
> Last night while programming away blissfully I suddenly
> noticed that the Decay and Release on my VCA were acting
> oddly. Instead of diminishing amplitude gradually they would
> simply go from "on" to "off". How long it took for them to
> create complete silence was still programmable with the
> sliders . . . but even a very long release would garner no
> gradual loss of amplitude, only a very long delay at full
> amplitude before sudden, complete silence.
>
> Turning the Polaris off and on again rectified the issue, but
> I'm just wondering if there's anything (any part) I should be
> concerned about and perhaps making a preventative order?

That sounds like software rather than hardware--something corrupting a
variable in RAM, which gets reset when you reboot. If things like that
recur, it could be that there's a marginal bit in an EPROM, which could be
fixed by reprogramming them.

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Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco
Paul mailto:pderocco@...




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