Members Swami Digital Posted October 22, 2008 Members Share Posted October 22, 2008 These two came in today, courtesy of credit card debt. And The final purchase (OASYS, the reason the above are debt and not bought with cash) will be coming in this weekend, but will probably remain with my parents in Florida until the movers come to pick it up. (Probably in December.) At least I'll get to play it when I go back for Thanksgiving. I might get desperate and ship it here, but I'm nervous about how such an expensive instrument will be handled. -D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AfroRouge Posted October 22, 2008 Members Share Posted October 22, 2008 ZOMG SCHIPPMAN! Nice stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kpatz Posted October 22, 2008 Members Share Posted October 22, 2008 Recalibrating the mod wheel worked! Thanks Kpatz! There's also a cool panel debug mode (power-on + soft button 2) That's cool that the calibration worked! After going into debug mode, hit soft button 8 and all the LEDs will flash repeatedly. Christmas tree mode. I got my Andy up on the stand: She still was suffering from amnesia. After leaving it off for an hour or so, it would power up with all initialized presets, that only made weird blip sounds. So, I opened 'er up and found a battery on the main board. A battery? I thought modern synths all use flash storage now. Not only that, but it was soldered to the board... I guess Alesis wanted to give this synth a vintage character in more ways than one. Testing with a voltmeter showed that the battery was good, but the points on the board weren't getting voltage. So I pushed down on the battery, to get the contact points to make, uh, contact, and then I got voltage. Put 'er back together, threw her up on the stand, did a factory reset, and hopefully I don't have a "blonde" Andromeda anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Swami Digital Posted October 22, 2008 Members Share Posted October 22, 2008 ZOMG SCHIPPMAN! Nice stuff. Now I need to get a Midi-CV converter so that I can automate the E&F's parameters from the Tenori-On Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members idiotboy Posted October 22, 2008 Members Share Posted October 22, 2008 kpatz said:After leaving it off for an hour or so, it would power up with all initialized presets, that only made weird blip sounds. Oh, that's just the "Pighood" user bank. Perfectly normal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members idiotboy Posted October 22, 2008 Members Share Posted October 22, 2008 ZOMG SCHIPPMAN! Nice stuff. +1 Schippman gets my schwing up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kpatz Posted October 22, 2008 Members Share Posted October 22, 2008 I just powered it up after an hour or two and got the "Pighood" bank again. Guess I'll have to run to Radio Shack and get a battery holder and a battery. Why Alesis didn't put a battery holder in in the first place, I guess to save 5 cents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AfroRouge Posted October 22, 2008 Members Share Posted October 22, 2008 My experience of Alesis products has been consistent with that: always some corner cut that drives me insane. It's why I don't buy Alesis anymore. Anyone want to buy my MultiMix 8 Firewire, btw? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members urbanscallywag Posted October 22, 2008 Members Share Posted October 22, 2008 Battery? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mildbill Posted October 22, 2008 Members Share Posted October 22, 2008 I just powered it up after an hour or two and got the "Pighood" bank again. Guess I'll have to run to Radio Shack and get a battery holder and a battery. Why Alesis didn't put a battery holder in in the first place, I guess to save 5 cents. You probably just got the 'Pighood Special' A6 version. No presets no matter what you do. You can still make noise though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members quicksilverXP Posted October 22, 2008 Members Share Posted October 22, 2008 Is it the battery itself? Or the connection? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members whatwhat808 Posted October 22, 2008 Members Share Posted October 22, 2008 So either I'm completely retarded or I'm not getting any sound from my newly acquired Andromeda. I've tried all of my audio inputs, headphone out, and directly into my speakers. I've tried the various resets and other things. Anything else I should check? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members urbanscallywag Posted October 22, 2008 Members Share Posted October 22, 2008 Master volume knob? MIDI local on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members whatwhat808 Posted October 22, 2008 Members Share Posted October 22, 2008 Checked both Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members drxcm Posted October 22, 2008 Members Share Posted October 22, 2008 Egads!! Andromeda's everywhere!! Swami .. congrats on the Ebbe & Flut, those things look great Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mildbill Posted October 22, 2008 Members Share Posted October 22, 2008 So either I'm completely retarded or I'm not getting any sound from my newly acquired Andromeda. I've tried all of my audio inputs, headphone out, and directly into my speakers. I've tried the various resets and other things. Anything else I should check? There's 2 volume knobs - one on the left side of the board, and one on the right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members whatwhat808 Posted October 22, 2008 Members Share Posted October 22, 2008 There's 2 volume knobs - one on the left side of the board, and one on the right. Yeah, I've adjusted both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members drxcm Posted October 22, 2008 Members Share Posted October 22, 2008 Could be a loose internal cable not seated properly with shipping? not fun times Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members whatwhat808 Posted October 22, 2008 Members Share Posted October 22, 2008 Could be a loose internal cable not seated properly with shipping? not fun times Shipping to Hawaii could more than likely do that. Gonna play around with a few more things and hopefully get it working. If I'm not able to play with it tonight, I more than likely will not sleep very well. Ugh, haha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mildbill Posted October 22, 2008 Members Share Posted October 22, 2008 Do you have the one on the right side set to 'Main' outs instead of auxillary? And in your other post you said: 'I've tried all of my audio inputs'. You did mean outputs and not inputs, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members whatwhat808 Posted October 22, 2008 Members Share Posted October 22, 2008 I've tried main and aux for the output selection on the right. And yes, that meant to say outputs earlier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members urbanscallywag Posted October 22, 2008 Members Share Posted October 22, 2008 No bueno. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members drxcm Posted October 22, 2008 Members Share Posted October 22, 2008 Time to don the OR scrubs and get a sexy nurse... SCALPEL! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members whatwhat808 Posted October 22, 2008 Members Share Posted October 22, 2008 Reloaded the firmware and all is good! What do you guys think the chances are of me getting my girlfriend to go out and pick up dinner while I play on this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members urbanscallywag Posted October 22, 2008 Members Share Posted October 22, 2008 YAY another Andromeda ! ...and not very likely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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