via Nath:"I was messing around with my circuit bent Alesis HR16B drum machine when this message popped up... Pretty funny when you consider there wouldn't have been a lot of people who have filled their memory up before.
A little bit of American humor from the 90's."
Of course, they start crashing and losing your songs long before it's full. I find anything over 92% to be iffy, and 95% almost guaranteed distruction. I changed the message in mine to read "Bummer dude, you're screwed".
ReplyDeleteYeah mine would constantly wipe its memory so I had to back up a sysex every time I made a program. Then one day it wouldn't load the OS. Apparently older models like mine had an issue that if something interrupted it while it was writing to memory it would crash the OS.
ReplyDeleteAccording to the service manual I would have to rebuild the memory/battery circuit and reload the program onto the chips. (Replacing the chips with a working OS would make it run again but the damage could happen again.) So to this day it sits in storage awaiting a life saving chip transplant.
A note for benders. If you have an older model and you save a program while you have certain bends turn on it will perform this error. So be careful when you save!
Its still the best drum machine to bend in my opinion though.