In terms of cruel hoaxes...

I'm dealing with my own polaris here. I was going to do the routine
of repairing the left side switch failures. got it working
perfect!..well..after the most extensive repair of that i've ever
seen. Both ribbons were just totally ruined. ANyway it developed
problems after the repair. Now it occasionally when a note is struck
OR I find a slider is moved to edit a vco aspect or whatever...it
would..well....quack.

Yes I have the aflak polaris here. Kind of interesting quack. It
seriously sounds like a quack. But that's not all. one synth channel
(not associated with the analog hardware channel but the assigned
channel.. in the mind of the computer..) always acts way different.
One a floydesque sound it may be totally mute until release and then
you hear the fitler resonance coming down. But you hear no sound at
all until then. Or on another sound it will make sound during that
segment of the envelope but it will have a large osc2 env on it where
the others do not.

But it gets worse! This...nobody will believe. I should charge
admission to see this. A previously perfectly working right switch
panel..has gone...totally dead. ALl ribbons measure perfect right
down to where it's glued in and there are no signs of breakage
anywhere there or on the ribbons. Yet not a one of them connects when
a switch is closed! What...on earth... I cannot believe this. I
simply ...cannot believe this. -Bob