thanks - i'm familiar with the problem of it getting overloaded on power-on, i've had to power it off and let it sit for a few pretty consistently too.

but the system reset worked - i had to do it a couple of times, but it worked the second time. maybe holding it down longer (with the flashing '@' symbol) helped.

thanks!!

--- In oberheim@yahoogroups.com , "Nicole Massey" <nyyki@...> wrote:
>
> My Matrix 6r does this sometimes if it is getting any MIDI data in or if it
> comes up with too many other things at the same time on a power-up. Try
> turning it off and letting it sit for a moment, then turning it back on to
> see how it comes back up.
>
> It's coming on with nineteen other devices when I hit that power button, so
> I just turn it off before everything else and turn it on by itself after
> things are powering up and it tends to come up fine. (I turn it on right
> after I start the samplers on their program loads and set the digital
> reverb's MIDI channel so that everything has time to come up -- by that time
> the Kurzweil modules have passed their relay trigger and so there's no more
> bumps in the power path)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: oberheim@yahoogroups.com [mailto: oberheim@yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf
> Of Paul Cunningham
> Sent: Friday, August 27, 2010 11:02 AM
> To: oberheim@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [oberheim] crashed matrix-6R
>
>
>
> press Store while powering up to do a factory reset. you will have to reload
> the patches after that, but at least you will see if memory corruption is
> causing your strange behavior. -pc
>
> On Aug 27, 2010, at 10:56 AM, "wavplant" <jcorelitz@...> wrote:
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> anyone know if there's any way to revive one
> the screen just shows symbols and it doesn't respond to any midi
> data.
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> does using a software editor cause corruption in these
>
> any help is appreciated!
>