Do your sounds degrade on your r3 after a while?

xTsukasa · Post by **xTsukasa** » Mon Feb 14, 2011 10:41 am

Ever since i got my r2 a year and a bit ago, if I upload a sound onto it via USB, the sound degrades after a month or two and sounds static like. Did they sell me a faulty one or is this natural?

Timo · Post by **Timo** » Mon Feb 14, 2011 1:54 pm

It's digital, therefore the sounds should never change or degrade, ever, not even a little bit. (Unless it was indeed faulty).

Can you give more information? In what way does it degrade or sound different?

Are you listening under the same conditions? (same speakers/headphones, signal path, volume, etc)

axxim · Post by **axxim** » Mon Feb 14, 2011 2:05 pm

xTsukasa wrote:Ever since i got my r2 a year and a bit ago, if I upload a sound onto it via USB, the sound degrades after a month or two and sounds static like. Did they sell me a faulty one or is this natural?

If its an R2 then it is an imitation or previous model

Sorry, couldn't resist to make a joke about your typo. Now getting serious:

It's strange what you describe. The patches are digital values that stay as they are or get scrambled in a manner that something weird would happen, but usually not in a way they will loose any quality like a magnetic tape.

What happens if you send ("refersh") the patch again? Is there a differnce? Does it sound better? What if you load the "degraded" patch into your Editor, is it different in its settings to the original?

It would help a lot if you could be a little more explicit on this.

Rosen Sound · Post by **Rosen Sound** » Mon Feb 14, 2011 8:00 pm

i noticed this on my radias. then i noticed the 'oriiginal value' led was turning off after a few minutes

then i realized i had a bad attack EG pot that was jumping on its own...
hopefully its your mind and not the pot!

vicz · Post by **vicz** » Mon Feb 14, 2011 9:29 pm

I'm sure some of my music sounded a lot better when I wrote it than it does now

xTsukasa · Post by **xTsukasa** » Mon Feb 14, 2011 9:58 pm

Timo wrote:It's digital, therefore the sounds should never change or degrade, ever, not even a little bit. (Unless it was indeed faulty).

Can you give more information? In what way does it degrade or sound different?

Are you listening under the same conditions? (same speakers/headphones, signal path, volume, etc)

Yes Ive listened to it under the same conditions and then tried listening to it through other amps or PAs.

By degrading I mean that I Upload a strings patch onto my r3, and then 2 months later the same patch sounds like noise / distortion and static. It happens to all the patches I upload.

Ive tried transferring the patch to a new location and it stays degraded. Although any patch I have made from scratch on the r3 or any preset sound I have tweaked has never ever degraded

xmlguy · Post by **xmlguy** » Mon Feb 14, 2011 10:19 pm

Examine the patch. Look at the noise level. Do you know how to program your synth? Maybe the patches you uploaded are screwed up.

xTsukasa · Post by **xTsukasa** » Mon Feb 14, 2011 10:43 pm

xmlguy wrote:Examine the patch. Look at the noise level. Do you know how to program your synth? Maybe the patches you uploaded are screwed up.

Yes I do know how to program my synth also all the settings remain the same, only the sound is different. And i uploaded the sounds from many different sound libraries, I dont think all of them would be faulty

xmlguy · Post by **xmlguy** » Mon Feb 14, 2011 10:49 pm

Do you hear the static through the headphones and the main outputs, at the same time?

Do you have USB hooked up? What happens when you disconnect it?

What happens if you disconnect all connections except power and headphone? If the static goes away, then you probably have a ground loop or noisy ground between the synth and whatever else you have it plugged into.

Is there anything unusual about the power source? 3rd party adapter? UPS device? Any large appliances on the same circuit (inductive noise)? Noise can be transfered via the power source.

xTsukasa · Post by **xTsukasa** » Thu Feb 17, 2011 9:54 am

xmlguy wrote:Do you hear the static through the headphones and the main outputs, at the same time?

Do you have USB hooked up? What happens when you disconnect it?

What happens if you disconnect all connections except power and headphone? If the static goes away, then you probably have a ground loop or noisy ground between the synth and whatever else you have it plugged into.

Is there anything unusual about the power source? 3rd party adapter? UPS device? Any large appliances on the same circuit (inductive noise)? Noise can be transfered via the power source.

Hey

so it didnt matter what output and it wasnt the power source so i took it to get fixed and something was wrong apparently, Ill know soon and be charged for it copiously I imagine, thanks for all the support!

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