I think its the battery. I really think its the battery.
I can understand the frustration though certainly. The Kurzweil bothered me enough that I'm no longer using it as my main board. I'm gonna leave it hooked up when I get my new studio room and use it once in awhile, since I like some of the things it does, and mine works fine through the digital out -- just the analog one is hosed.
I've been using my Ensoniq Halo as a bread-and-butter board. Its not super-awesome, but its a fairly stable workstation-like synth. No sequencer though. I posted a review of it on Harmony Central.
Some of the recent Emu and Akai sampler/workstations are s'posed to be very happy.
Laptops are expensive. They are a great deal more fragile than y'r average sampler, and pr'y just expensive to repair. I know some people use them successfully, but I just don't trust that computer hardware is going to work reliably. Ya know?
Once you calm down enough to look at the thing, I think you should try the taking out the battery and draining the P-RAM thing. If its still freaking out a half an hour later when you put in the new battery, take it back for your warranty repair and then don't touch it again til you demonstrate it for some sucker with cash to burn.
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I can understand the frustration though certainly. The Kurzweil bothered me enough that I'm no longer using it as my main board. I'm gonna leave it hooked up when I get my new studio room and use it once in awhile, since I like some of the things it does, and mine works fine through the digital out -- just the analog one is hosed.
I've been using my Ensoniq Halo as a bread-and-butter board. Its not super-awesome, but its a fairly stable workstation-like synth. No sequencer though. I posted a review of it on Harmony Central.
Some of the recent Emu and Akai sampler/workstations are s'posed to be very happy.
Laptops are expensive. They are a great deal more fragile than y'r average sampler, and pr'y just expensive to repair. I know some people use them successfully, but I just don't trust that computer hardware is going to work reliably. Ya know?
Once you calm down enough to look at the thing, I think you should try the taking out the battery and draining the P-RAM thing. If its still freaking out a half an hour later when you put in the new battery, take it back for your warranty repair and then don't touch it again til you demonstrate it for some sucker with cash to burn.
That's my spiritual advice. Have a nice day. =%>