yeah, it did finally happen most likely due to normal wear and tear. Basically, I press the button and nothing happens. There's no response at all. The LED is gone too.
However, when I connected the EC5 pedal, everything including the LED seems to be working fine. (That is if i use the foot pedal to play the Fill )
Any clues as to what could be the problem?
"Fill 2" button died!
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Re: "Fill 2" button died!
Bad micro switch.Assyrianpianist wrote:yeah, it did finally happen most likely due to normal wear and tear. Basically, I press the button and nothing happens. There's no response at all. The LED is gone too.
However, when I connected the EC5 pedal, everything including the LED seems to be working fine. (That is if i use the foot pedal to play the Fill )
Any clues as to what could be the problem?

$2.50 to $5.00 part - up to 1/2 hour soldering job.
(disassemble, remove left control board, desolder bad switch, install new switch, re-assemble)
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It could be some dust.
Push on it hardly, BUT in the lower part of the switch. Because they are fragile. Press hard on the top will break it.
I have exactly the same thing on my PA2X. Some times "Var2" switch works, during a few days or weeks, and some time it doesn't work.
And I often need to press hardly on it several times before it works.
And guess what...This began a few days after the replacement of all the internal electronic panel (some LEDs were died)...
Thanks to Korg for this expensive toy...
Push on it hardly, BUT in the lower part of the switch. Because they are fragile. Press hard on the top will break it.
I have exactly the same thing on my PA2X. Some times "Var2" switch works, during a few days or weeks, and some time it doesn't work.
And I often need to press hardly on it several times before it works.
And guess what...This began a few days after the replacement of all the internal electronic panel (some LEDs were died)...
Thanks to Korg for this expensive toy...
ok, this is really weird. I had a gig on Saturday night. Turned on the PA 800 and messed around with it for little bit saturday morning, no problem. Over the next few minutes I put the ipad on top of the keyboard speaker which now has all of my chord charts. It sits inside a semi-hard case that's got a little elbow on the back. You could pull it out and the iPad stands up in a perfect angle for reading the charts. So the only thing seperating the keyboard and the ipad is only the fabric of the case which is not that thick. As i was auditioning my user styles, i noticed the problem mentioned above. I turned it off and turned it back on again a few times , but that didn't solve the problem.
Right after I started this thread, the keyboard stopped responding to the chord changes as well. No matter what chord I played it would just play the same chord. That's when I decided I was going to take the PA3x with me as a back up plan. Few minutes later, after I had removed the ipad, I turned on the keyboard one more time, and everything was working just fine! I had both keyboards set up for the night, but didnt' need to use the PA3x at all. I did put the ipad on the keybaord again, but this time i used a real ipad stand that raises the ipad by about 3 inches.
I dont' know if there's any connection between the iPad and the keyboard acting up weird???
Right after I started this thread, the keyboard stopped responding to the chord changes as well. No matter what chord I played it would just play the same chord. That's when I decided I was going to take the PA3x with me as a back up plan. Few minutes later, after I had removed the ipad, I turned on the keyboard one more time, and everything was working just fine! I had both keyboards set up for the night, but didnt' need to use the PA3x at all. I did put the ipad on the keybaord again, but this time i used a real ipad stand that raises the ipad by about 3 inches.
I dont' know if there's any connection between the iPad and the keyboard acting up weird???
interference of 2 computer-CPU's "near by"
Hi,
if i read this, i come to the point of "ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERFERENCE"
of 2 "computer" cpu's ... located in short distance to one another...
There were situations, when a not correct installed cpu's on PC's did disturb the police-radio within a distance of 2 miles... (!!) ...
Did you ever hear the sound of a small battery-powered RADIO playing, when a HANDY nearby is about to Ring ... the typical sound pattern of
that event...
MAY BE . . . that the CPU - "Heart-Beat" of the PA800 is influenced /
disturbed by an IPAD mounted near the body of the PA800 ?!?!?
Maybe, even the IPAD is influenced by the PA800 ?
(Does it really work well ?) !
best Wishes from
TBLECK
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if i read this, i come to the point of "ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERFERENCE"
of 2 "computer" cpu's ... located in short distance to one another...
There were situations, when a not correct installed cpu's on PC's did disturb the police-radio within a distance of 2 miles... (!!) ...
Did you ever hear the sound of a small battery-powered RADIO playing, when a HANDY nearby is about to Ring ... the typical sound pattern of
that event...
MAY BE . . . that the CPU - "Heart-Beat" of the PA800 is influenced /
disturbed by an IPAD mounted near the body of the PA800 ?!?!?
Maybe, even the IPAD is influenced by the PA800 ?
(Does it really work well ?) !
best Wishes from
TBLECK
Copyright-FREE Music (>2h), Sounds(sets), Pads, Samples, Workshops,
STYLE-Database of PA800 and much more Ideas on
http://www.tbleck.de