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By seal Tue May 25, 2004 9:14 pm
I hate to tell you this, but Ensoniq is out of business. Spare parts were outsourced to The SOniq and EPR Electronics. You might wanna call them. THey have websites at http://www.thesoniq.com or http://www.eprelectronics.com .
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By aaron Wed May 26, 2004 12:58 am
man this is the only downside of the ASR-10, ensoniq is out of bussiness.

shit is impossible to get fixed
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By seal Wed May 26, 2004 2:03 am
Not really. You can get your boards repaired by either site. But at 80-120 bucks and hour, expect to pay.
By DaFunkDocta2004 Thu May 27, 2004 2:51 pm
...that I still use after 12 years. I had the same problem, and it had the simplest of solutions...the data slider. keep it all the way down when you're not using it. This has actually worked sinced I learned about it about 5 years ago. Sounds a little TOO simple, I know, but my machine has never flipped out again since. Much like the simple solution to the MPC crashing problem...Shift+Save!

By Aster Thu May 27, 2004 3:48 pm
Damn that sounds too good to be true but I'ma try it when I get home.
When I bought this beast it used to be f*cked up for about 20 minutes until it warmed up... but now it just stays f'd up, in fact it gets worse the longer it's on.
Big up everyone that replied, I had to live off ramen noodles for 2 weeks to pick this thing up and I'm hardly using it cuz I have an unbound manual with no table of contents or index, and I can't even read the display!
By DaFunkDocta2004 Thu May 27, 2004 4:00 pm
Aster wrote:Damn that sounds too good to be true but I'ma try it when I get home.
When I bought this beast it used to be f*cked up for about 20 minutes until it warmed up... but now it just stays f'd up, in fact it gets worse the longer it's on.
Big up everyone that replied, I had to live off ramen noodles for 2 weeks to pick this thing up and I'm hardly using it cuz I have an unbound manual with no table of contents or index, and I can't even read the display!


I feel your pain man. I'll tell you something funny about the ASR-10...Ensoniq re-released the machine with "updates" maybe twice, I might be wrong. The most noticeable difference is in the screen. The very first ASR-10s had a very standard monochrome-like screen, then all of a sudden it got jazzed up with a nice LCD one. A lot of my boys got pissed, cuz they got the machines when they first came out and had a lot of sequence crashing problems...some traded theirs in for the updated model, others moved onto MPCs, lol, SPs, W-30s, etc. Another funny thing was that my EPS-16+, the model BEFORE the ASR, has never crashed. Now, yeah, it's not a studio-friendly machine in its finickiness with MIDI, but you do what you can. Best of luck to you, the ASR-10 is still a great machine...maybe you could just get a rackmount version, I've never heard of problems with those.
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By loo2004ep Fri May 28, 2004 12:12 pm
damn u got burned,id bring that shit back to whever/whoever you got it and demand a refund real unpolite like

By Aster Fri May 28, 2004 1:48 pm
lou u in Boston?

Yeah I bought it used without an OS or a manual with a 2 week return policy... so I had 2 weeks to try and decipher if it was working, after downloading the OS and manual... so I have this unbound 400 page manual with no table of contents, no index, and I'm just trying out all of the hundreds of functions to see if they work...the LED problem was minor at first... but got worse... On the last day I had to return it I just didn't have the heart...