After months of struggling with writer’s block, I finally got excited about doing an OT only live set. Spent weeks prepping sample chains, setting up template patterns and parts, re-reading the manual page by page while working through the examples, you name it.
Got it all prepped last night and ready to start recording today, at which point I decide to back up all my work to my other CF cards just to be safe (or save, depending).
No problem, that goes fine, until I insert my original CF card and realize that the OT won’t read from it. In fact, if any of my cards in inserted the OT just freezes.
Turns out that one of the pins from the CF reader broke off in one of my backup cards, and not the OT will no longer function and needs to go in for repair.
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Why does my gear always break the DAY before I go to record a major project?
It’s just dumb luck I know, but I’m extremely bummed today as this kills the next two weeks of work and a possible live set I was going to do next weekend. Sigh…
Sorry guys, looks like I can’t finish up the new OT tutorial videos either.
Damn, that sucks - I also tend to use a CF card reader to backup, but now I’ll be inspecting the pins to make sure this kind of thing doesn’t happen. I guess the broke-off pin blocked the OT’s pin and probably bent it.
Hope everything works out for you, T, and you’re up and running again soon.
Ah, shit, man, that sucks! But didn’t you arrange a sort of Elektron-hookup a little while back? Maybe get in touch with some of those guys, if they live close by?
Yeah, I arranged a Seattle meet-up and only one person came, and he didn’t have an OT.
Oh well, the gig was tentative only at this point, so I guess I should just be glad it wasn’t one of my bigger gigs.
sod’s law strikes again…to be honest i think elektron should drop ship a loan one to you straight away while yours is in the shop. i reckon a fair number of OT sales have been smoothed along by your endeavours. anyone from hq reading this ? drop the man a rope so he can carry on spreading the word. good luck fella.
That Seattle meet-up happened on a weekend that EU crashed tho…I remember seeing there was a lot of interest, but I’m sure a lot of people didn’t write down the time/location and didn’t go because they couldn’t verify it on the forum. I wouldn’t take the low turnout as a good indicator.
I bet you might find a kind soul up there who would loan one to you if you made a Craigslist/Stranger posting.
I feel your pain mate. If its any consolation I rewired all my kit to a MOTU Midi Timepiece tonight, configured it correctly or so I thought, started playing something and my Octatrack went crazy looping the first step of a bar and then… my Machinedrum froze.
So I rebooted the MD and got the ‘Preparing Flash’ message. My heart sank as I realised it had completely wiped itself back to factory settings. No idea why and with no warning. And I hadn’t backed up for 3 weeks. And I spent the last 3 weeks preparing for a big gig last friday and had written a tonne of new bits. All gone
I’ve searched the net to see if anyone had had this happen to them before and saw that TronDC had the same thing happen to him a few years back. I actually read that thread before I bought the MD and thought ‘wouldnt happen to me, I always back up’ “lol”. Just about ready to throw it out of the window right now.
I am not sure why the MD would act that way, but the issue on the MOTU sounds like a MIDI feedback loop, I have had it when more than one unit is set to be master or if note date is recursive a note triggering a note , which in turn triggers a note etc.
So sorry for what happened to you 
- I also tend to use a CF card reader to backup, but now I’ll be inspecting the pins to make sure this kind of thing doesn’t happen. I guess the broke-off pin blocked the OT’s pin and probably bent it.
