Phew!
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 11:31 am
Just thought I'd share this with you - massive relief for me.
For nearly 24 hour my OASYS has been jumping from mode to mode , program to program, combi to program - you name it - it changed into that mode every few seconds. No matter how many time I rebooted, it jumped straight into this madness. I was _just_ about to resign to the fact that I'd have to contact Korg UK (I'm in Dublin) and pack it up for an expensive shipment and repair - and then - I noticed my MOTU Miditimepiece AV in the corner of the room looking a bit strange. I powered it off and low and behold - my OASYS stopped blinking. It was some sort of weird corruption on my MIDI interface all along! A reboot of the interface fixed even that.
I'm one relieved person. I really thought the OASYS had gone. But want amazes me is just how close I was to shipping it off. Can you imagine - me spending hundreds of Euro to ship to Korg UK only for them to report all is fine. Phew!
Actually - I should have known better. In the nineties I was a UNIX systems administrator and on one occasion after a Sun engineer repaired on of my company's Sun Workstations, I bollocked him out of it on the phone about 6 hours after his repair when I discovered the Sun Workstation would not power up. I read him the riot act (we were paying a lot for Sun support) where by he dropped everything and drove from Limerick in the west of Ireland to Dublin (about 150 Km) - only to discover when he arrived on site that I'd forgotten to plug in the computer!! You can imagine my embarrassment.
The lesson - if your OASYS is on the blink - don't call me
First, check all the connections to and from it.
Kevin (relieved OASYS user!).
For nearly 24 hour my OASYS has been jumping from mode to mode , program to program, combi to program - you name it - it changed into that mode every few seconds. No matter how many time I rebooted, it jumped straight into this madness. I was _just_ about to resign to the fact that I'd have to contact Korg UK (I'm in Dublin) and pack it up for an expensive shipment and repair - and then - I noticed my MOTU Miditimepiece AV in the corner of the room looking a bit strange. I powered it off and low and behold - my OASYS stopped blinking. It was some sort of weird corruption on my MIDI interface all along! A reboot of the interface fixed even that.
I'm one relieved person. I really thought the OASYS had gone. But want amazes me is just how close I was to shipping it off. Can you imagine - me spending hundreds of Euro to ship to Korg UK only for them to report all is fine. Phew!
Actually - I should have known better. In the nineties I was a UNIX systems administrator and on one occasion after a Sun engineer repaired on of my company's Sun Workstations, I bollocked him out of it on the phone about 6 hours after his repair when I discovered the Sun Workstation would not power up. I read him the riot act (we were paying a lot for Sun support) where by he dropped everything and drove from Limerick in the west of Ireland to Dublin (about 150 Km) - only to discover when he arrived on site that I'd forgotten to plug in the computer!! You can imagine my embarrassment.
The lesson - if your OASYS is on the blink - don't call me
First, check all the connections to and from it.Kevin (relieved OASYS user!).
