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>From: "Robert Weigel" <sounddoctorin@...>_________________________________________________________________
>Reply-To: chromapolaris@yahoogroups.com
>To: chromapolaris@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [chromapolaris] No doubt..the most insane repair of all time...
>Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 00:25:58 -0000
>
>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
>