V-Synth display

[Synthia]

When I power up V-Synth the display sometimes takes about 2 Minutes to light up and other times it lights up straight away.I'm getting abit worried about this.I hope that this is not a fault.Does anybody else here have the same problem?Also my Fantom 76 does this sometimes.I wonder if all Rolands do this?

Music keeps me sane in an insane world
Synthia

[grimleyj]

yup ... same here.

[Artemiy]

I had a max delay of around 5 seconds, but never more. The V-Synth I have here is only 20 days old (and it was factory-new).

[DodgingRain]

I've never seen that problem with mine. I've used it both in v-synth mode and D-50 mode. I've never seen any delay at all. It's my controller right now so it sees a lot of use, probably around 20 hours a week. I've had it for about 6 months.

I think if mine were doing that I would probably be concerned.

[grimleyj]

I dunno ... thought this was normal as I've noticed it since I got the thing 8 months ago. Might have somehting to with having the flash memory nearly full. I have it pretty maxed out all the time.
However ... now that I read your original post again ... 2 minutes that does seem a little excessive. Mine sometimes sits for 30 seconds before lights come on ... but I 've never noticed 2 minutes without activity. I used to look round back to make sure it was plugged in ... and then ... wam bam lights on.

"Hiccup" ... enough ... time for me bed ... I;ve had too much Guinness.
-g

[Synthia]

Funny enough my V-Synth is behaving itself now.The last few times the display came on straight away.So I'm not really worried now.Perhaps synths also get bad days as we do

Music keeps me sane in an insane world
Synthia

[DodgingRain]

Anyone know what the lifespan on these types of display are? I would think they are going to be expensive to replace and might suffer from things like dead pixels(similar to a laptop display) and so on. Also we use a ton of touch screens at work and have issues with them being no responsive or inaccurate to touch after a while.

[Watermelon]

This issue reminds me a notice I once saw, on a Fantom-X workstation I think: it said that depending on your country, the synth could take some time to boot up. I don't know if it makes sense though...

[zer0to]

Maybe this is the answer:

"The time taken to boot up depends on the amount of data being loaded; with about 40MB of waves in my Compact Flash card, the load sequence takes about a minute, and with a blank new Project it takes about 10 seconds."

Paul Nagle SOS May 2003

Or maybe not.