vortex woes

[buzzard@world.std.com (Sean T Barrett)]

VORTEX SPECIFIC!

This is not the loop email you're looking for.
Move along.

Greg Hogan wrote:
>It seems like your machine is confused.  Try resetting it as
>follows:Warning! This will erase user registers and replace them with
>the presets.

Thanks, Greg.  It was worth a shot.  Actually,
before I did this, I did a little further investigation
than before, and found that things were not as
bad as I had thought.  Whereas I had thought
that all A->B copies were bad (based on 2 out
of 2 samples), further investigation showed
that it seems to be limited to certain patches.

Resetting it did not, however, fix the problem.

If someone else with a Vortex wants to check if
this is a general Vortex bug, not specific to
my machine, that would be cool.  (Either one
seems plausible at the moment.)

The most consistent behavior is as follows:
  Turn the volume down on whatever the Vortex is feeding
  Copy PRESET 14A to register 14B (you'll destroy your
     14B... you could try a different register of course,
     but it _seems_ like it has to be to a B register)
  Turn the knob away and back to 14 (leaving B selected).

At least nine times out of ten that produces
continuous high-volume noise (self-oscillation?)
on my Vortex.

Sean Barrett