Ultimate Keys - white noise

[szurcio]

I got the Ultimate Keys expansion board at Ebay. Everything seems fine except patch #466 FunkyDrummer which produces a lot of white noise/buzzing in the background (it's unusable). Can someone check it for me - is this normal or did I get a broken SRX card? Thanks!

[szurcio]

Could someone check it? Is it possible it is caused by an effect added to the patch? Sorry, I'm a total newbie.

[Arjan]

Try reseating the card, ie taking out the card and re-installing it. You may have a dirty contact or just a bad connection because of misalignment.

A bit strange though that only this one patch would be affected, I'd expect a few patches at least to have similar problems.

[Andy Keys]

I'll try mine this evening and lt you know, szurcio.

Regards
Andy

[szurcio]

Thanks, Andy!

[Andy Keys]

Hi szurcio,

Sorry for the delay getting back to you. Monday turned into a bit of a nightmare! Anyway, I had a look at the Patch this morning, and you've got nothing to worry about.

Patch #466 FunkyDrummer uses wave #689 AL Funk 120 in mono. If you Initialise a Patch & select that wave you should hear that it is clean, so it's not the waveform.

The noise is coming from the Lo-Fi Noise MFX that the Patch uses. Go to Patch #466 and press [EFFECTS]. Press [F3] to get to the MFX 1 settings. If you turn down the W/P Noise Level, Disc Noise Level and Hum Noise Level you should get back to the clean sample. Easier still, just turn that MFX off.

Hope this helps
Andy

[szurcio]

Thank you!

[Andy Keys]

No worries. Just glad you haven't got a duff board )