Re: Observations from playing experience & Gripes w/Oberheim Customer Service

[matthias@bahianet.com.br (Matthias)]

>UNDO Can Kill The Loop
>Has anyone else experienced this.  You're happily creating a loop.  10-20
>minutes of layering, reversing and undoing.  Life is good and the loop is
>happening.  Then, you press the UNDO button (on the footpedal of course) 
>and
>suddenly you're engulfed in silence.  Somehow, invoking the UNDO function 
>has
>erased the loop.
>I've since stopped using the UNDO function.  I can't be performing 
>infront of
>people and have this type of thing happen.

Never happened to me, and I use it a lot! (well, not the old soft version) 
Kim?
Oh, yes, is that the bug with the ADC heating up and then Undo beeing read
as Record? That would be easy. Just cut pin 5 of the ADC as indicated on
the JPEG I posted some days ago.

>2.  Gripes w/Oberheim Customer Service
...
>If I was really famous, maybe they would call back more promptly. Or 
>maybe I
>could buy a few 'plexes to have as back-up.  As it is I'm just little old 
>me,
>trying to make  living with a really cool tool from a very unresponsive
>vendor.
>I've since been told that Oberheim has a staff of three.

Even when they were many and I sent an adress of a famous person (Nana
Vasconcelos, Trilok Gurtu, Torquato Mariano) who had shown interest in
looping, they did not call...

>By the way, when I was first trying to buy the echoplex this summer 
>no-one in
>Boston had one and a few places thought they were out of business!!!  
>Local
>Gibson reps who tour the retail chains weren't aware of Oberheim products.
>
>It's a pitty that such neato engineering is being so under-marketed.

Thanks. I forward that to them, if you do not mind. (I could cry)

Matthias