From bruce@ashbysolutions.com Fri Aug 17 19:23:34 2001
Subject:RE: CX-3: pops and lockups

All,

Renee Rober wrote:
>I own my new CX-3 for almost 48 hours now. Road tests will start
>on monday with a real Leslie. But for now I'm just testing with
>headphones. And I made some observations:
>
>Once, while playing jazz tunes like mad in split mode, I had
>some kind of software lockup. Two sine waves were sounding
>constantly and there was no means of stopping them but turning
>the power off.
>
>While doodling on I expirience some occasional clicks and pops
>that are processed by the reverb unit. Could be interference
>from mains.

Then Pete W wrote:

>I had a similar *freeze* at the end of last night's gig.... a bit
>worrying! (I was using a second midi keyboard for the lower manual, not
>split mode.)
>I've also noticed occasional clicks/pops when playing through my
>studio's mixer.
>What's going on?

Then David Jacques wrote:

>Never experienced that problem.. I have been playing mine regularly all
>year.

And, finally -- Bruce Wahler wrote:

I haven't seen anything on mine, either, but I did see something similar on
my FIRST unit, which was an early model -- a stuck tone of the highest
black drawbar, which KORG Support called the "low-level problem." It was
supposedly fixed in the latest firmware. What are your serial numbers?

Renee, your jazz-induced problem sounds a bit like a classic MIDI-note-off
hang. Were you using a MIDI setup, or Local On? If MIDI, did you try an
all-notes-off message?

While this sounds like something for the techs at KORG, I would be very
interested in the final result.

Regards,

-BW

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