Loss of all patches ?

daffyduxxx · Post by **daffyduxxx** » Tue Oct 06, 2009 7:22 pm

Hi,
I have just bought a korg triton rack from Ebay.When it arrived I booted it up and all the patches were initialised.
i.e all the combos were "initial combo 0000! etc.
I downloaded the preload discs from Korg and loaded them into the rack and booted it up, all the sounds were there!!
However, I am worried that they may disappear again, and leave me with a useless rack, and empty bank account.
I emailed the seller and he said he hadn't used it for 6 years.Is it possible that it could have leaked it's memory over the 6 years?
Could it be that the korg triton rack has battery backed memory and the battery may be flat?
Many thanks for any help you can give.
Paul

aaronpico · Post by **aaronpico** » Mon Feb 07, 2011 2:12 am

Well, this is an old post. Did you figure it out? Sounded like the battery needed to be replaced.

McHale · Post by **McHale** » Mon Feb 07, 2011 2:57 am

battery? what battery?

The seller probably just wiped the patches before shipping it. When I was about to sell my Triton, I reloaded the factory disks just to make sure my custom patches weren't on there.

aaronpico · Post by **aaronpico** » Mon Feb 07, 2011 5:09 am

McHale wrote:battery? what battery?

The seller probably just wiped the patches before shipping it. When I was about to sell my Triton, I reloaded the factory disks just to make sure my custom patches weren't on there.

Not being the owner of a Triton Rack, I didn't realize there was no battery. Seems like most synths etc have a battery to be able to retain your patches, etc when powered down.
My Kurzweil has one, My effects processors have them.

Wouldn't the factory settings still be there?

Rosen Sound · Post by **Rosen Sound** » Mon Feb 07, 2011 6:08 am

Its definately a battery issue, sometimes this can be solved by simply leaving the synth on for a few hours, or just oen the sucker up and find the battery, more then likely is a CR2032 coin size battery!
its no biggy, just dont spent 200 dollars to fix it if you dont gotta