RE: Re[2]: Selling stuff over the internet

["Hogan, Greg (Exchange)" <ghogan@lexicon.com>]

Dear Sean,

It seems like your machine is confused.  Try resetting it as
follows:Warning! This will erase user registers and replace them with
the presets.
Power the unit on while holding the REGISTER/PRESET and A/B buttons.  
When the display reads "d" release these buttons.
Press the REGISTER/PRESET button once.
Turn the REGISTER/PRESET knob to 13,  display reads "OC". 
Press the REGISTER/PRESET button once, display reads "PA".
Press the REGISTER/PRESET button again.
Turn the REGISTER/PRESET KNOB to 10, display reads "09".
Press the REGISTER/PRESET button.

Please let me know if you have any questions or if there is anything
that I can do for you.

Best regards,

Greg Hogan
Lexicon Customer Service
Phone +781-280-0372
FAX +781-280-0499


> ----------
> From:         buzzard@world.std.com[SMTP:buzzard@world.std.com]
> Reply To:     Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com
> Sent:         Friday, January 30, 1998 7:36 PM
> To:   GHogan@lexicon.com
> Subject:      Re:  Re[2]: Selling stuff over the internet
> 
> [buying used through the mail]
> >Never have I had a bad piece of gear.
> 
> Obviously this is anecdotal.  Some people
> won't get burned and some people will.
> 
> I appear to have gotten burned with my
> Vortex.  It's possible that this problem
> has only recently developed, but I'm quite
> sure I'd never bothered trying this before.
> 
> I finally (four months after buying it!)
> decided to give its morphing capabilities
> a work out--until now I just morphed between
> existing patches.  (And mostly I didn't
> morph at all because I use it as a post-loop
> processor.)
> 
> So I was going to morph between a patch
> and "itself" (a variant of itself), so I
> copied the patch from an A register to
> a B register.
> 
> Lo and behold, I have discovered that this
> Vortex flakes out on exactly this operation
> (goodness knows this doesn't make any sense
> as either a hardware problem or a software
> problem, as far as I can see).  If a patch
> is copied from A to B, it comes out entirely
> messed up (and non-musical) in B--generally
> either extremely muted and in (apparent) mono,
> or loud and horribly (digitally?) clipped,
> generally in a different way in L & R channels,
> or it self-oscillates in some way producing
> very loud randomly squiggling unmusical noise.
> Sometimes, switching away to another patch and
> then back changes the mode of the behavior.
> Powering the Vortex down and back up doesn't
> make any difference.
> 
> Copying from B to A does not exhibit this problem,
> I believe.  I'm not sure how exhaustive my
> testing was at the time.  Hmm, I'm not even
> sure I ever copied from one B to another B.
> 
> Anyway, obviously, for Vortex and Jamman
> you've got to buy used.  Caveat emptor, I
> suppose.
> 
> Sean Barrett
>