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Subject: RE: [chromapolaris] strange VCA envelope behaviour

From: "Paul D. DeRocco" <pderocco@...>
Date: 2013-02-16

> 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@...